To bold text in Discord, use two asterisks or stars (*) at the beginning and end of your message. Example: **bold text** . Note : For this and other markdown codes that use the asterisk, if you’re using a standard English keyboard, you can insert an asterisk using a Shift + 8 keyboard shortcut .

These different sets of fancy text letters are scattered all throughout the unicode specification, and so to create a fancy text translator, it's just a matter of finding these sets of letters and symbols, and linking them to their normal alphabetical equivalents. Unicode has a huge number of symbols, and so we're able to create other things.