# Fonts

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fonts/88716
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [October 21, 2001, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fonts/88716 "2001-10-21T18:30:19Z")
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### Author: ![whatmove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@whatmove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatmove)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2001, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fonts/88716/1 "2001-10-21T18:30:19Z")

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I can’t figure out how to italicize, underline, or make bold my text in posts. Any hints? I’m on a Mac.

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### Author: ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2001, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fonts/88716/2 "2001-10-21T19:04:21Z")

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To make text bold, surround it by the following tags:

**Bold** is {B}Bold text{/B}

But note that you want to replace the { and } in all of my examples with [and] respectively (I can’t do that in my examples, because…well, you’ll see). Note that the tag “B” has a closing tag “/B”, which is very important.

Underline is {U}underline{/U}

_Itlaics_ is {I}italics{/I}

[sub]Subscript[/sub] is {sub}subscript{/sub}

[sup]Superscript[/sup] is {sup}superscript{/sup}