Using Fancy Text

Most people have seen “Fancy Text” on social media. It often looks something like this:

This is an easy way to get things to stand out, especially on social media. But are their any disadvantages to using fancy text like this?

The first thing you need to know is that this fancy text is not text at all! It’s actually just emojis that are shaped like letters. This means that people searching for “meditation” or “happiness” won’t find this text. Try it for yourself. Type Ctrl-F right now and type one of those words in the page search bar. You will see that those words are not found in the text below.

?‍Come to our ???????? ????? ???? programme at Prana lounge every Wednesday at 6 pm. Learn ?????????? for ᴘᴇᴀᴄᴇ and ?????????.

This means that these keywords won’t be used for SEO.

Another problem is that just like emojis, this text may display differently on different devices. You may notice that unlike in the photo of this fancy text at the top of the article, when the text appears above some of the letters in the last word are coloured. Doesn’t look great.

So in conclusion:

Use Fancy text only in places where SEO does not matter. Never use it on websites or in YouTube video descriptions.