To attract the greatest attention of other users of the VKontakte social network to your page or community feed, you can use auxiliary text design options. Among these there are both individual solutions and those visible to all site visitors, regardless of the platform. During today's article we will tell you about the best styles.
Bold font in VK as a software vulnerability
A couple of years ago, VKontakte functionality had a software vulnerability that allowed you to write messages in bold (and not only) to another user. A message form was created and the code was inserted several times. The “Subject” field appeared, in which the user typed a message that was supposed to be displayed in bold on VK. Then the codes were deleted, and some kind of space was put in their place. After that, this message with bold font was sent to the recipient (read how to find out who viewed our posts in VK in our material).
Since the VK team is reviewing all relevant news, they have found and eliminated this vulnerability. Now the functionality of this and other similar holes in the VK code is not available to users. What to do?
This option no longer works
What font does VKontakte use for captions on pictures?
Today I was a little puzzled by finding a suitable Cyrillic font that could be used in Photoshop to apply beautiful text to pictures.
I'm sure many people know that most of the fonts that are installed on the computer by default or those that were separately added to the collection do not support Russian characters (letters).
In general, I decided to find some Russian font for Photoshop, and for some reason I immediately remembered the beautiful inscriptions that are used on most pictures on the Vkontakte social network.
Font example
This picture shows one of the examples of the font that I wanted to find and add to my Photoshop CS6, but that’s not the problem - finding it turned out to be not so easy.
At first I decided to use the Yandex search engine to find at least some clues, but after going through all the possible options for queries, I still couldn’t find anything.
- What font does VKontakte use for captions on pictures?
- What font is used on VKontakte
- Russian font for pictures like in VK
- Recognize Russian font from a picture
- Russian font for pictures
- Russian font for Photoshop
And only a little later, resorting to answers from Mail.ru in one of the comments, I found something similar. the font called Lobster is most often used for inscriptions on VKontakte pictures .
Lobster - font for inscriptions on VKontakte pictures
Before I found what I was looking for, among other things, I had to spend some time on so-called services for recognizing fonts in pictures, but the results were incorrect or completely absent.
I suppose that a lot of people are interested in the question of what font is used in VK.com for inscriptions on pictures, so I decided to make this note and
save the Lobster font on my Yandex Drive so that it can be downloaded if necessary.
Download Lobster font
You can download the font used by VKontakte by clicking on the button below. PS: Perhaps this is the best font that supports Russian letters!
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Use services to change text to Unicode
You can write in VK in bold or another font using a number of special Internet services that use the Unicode standard. With their help, you can get a variety of options for your text, including bold, italic, gothic and other fonts.
You must work with these tools as follows:
- Go to such a resource;
- Insert into a special field (usually on the left) the desired text that you want to display in a different font;
- On the right, select the desired font option;
- Mark the result obtained with the mouse cursor, right-click it, select “Copy”;
- Go to the desired field for text in VK, click on it with the cursor, and click “Insert”.
Among such services that allow you to write in bold on VK, we highlight the following:
| № | Service | Description |
| 1 | lingojam.com | This Chinese resource has a special tool for modifying text into bold font. Just go to the resource, type the text you need on the left, and get the transformed result on the right. The service works much better with the Latin alphabet than with the Cyrillic alphabet, but the Cyrillic options here are quite diverse. |
| 2 | boldtext.io | The service is specially created to receive your inscription in bold online. Go to the resource, enter your text in the appropriate field, and view the result below. To load more results, click on the “load more fonts” button. |
| 3 | yaytext.com | This service is similar in functionality to other analogues, allowing you to get both bold and italic text. The text also works poorly with Cyrillic. |
Difficulties in transferring VKontakte signs and images
After it became possible to add unusual VKontakte symbols, they began to be used by absolutely everyone. But certain users have encountered problems while trying to add these icons. The fact is that some of the characters were displayed incorrectly in the text or were not shown at all. This, of course, can be corrected if a certain series of actions are followed.
- When copying the character (or image) you need, simply copy the poorly displayed character along with a piece of text located next to it, and paste the result in the desired place and delete the unnecessary characters.
- Perhaps after insertion the signs will not be displayed correctly, but as soon as you save your status, they will take the required form. It’s worth a try and if the effect does not suit you, you can always delete the result.
A selection of various colored symbols and images awaits you on.
How to change the VKontakte font yourself in a group?
To create the most unusual design for the group using their own fonts, the developers came up with a special wiki function - page layout. Using this function, you can quickly install new fonts and make a wide variety of changes to the design of the group. Using wiki markup is very simple, for this you need:
1) Log in to VKontakte and log in with your username and password. 2) Go to the groups tab, and then to the tab called management. 3) In the directory that opens, find the group for which you want to change the font. 4) Go to the page of this community and go to the community management menu. 5) In the management menu, in the very first tab (you are in it) called Information, click on the materials item (it is located at the very bottom of the page) and change it to the “Connected” state. 6) Open your community and you will see that the inscription “Latest News” appears immediately under its name. Move your mouse over this inscription and a link for editing will appear, feel free to click on it. 7) After you have written the text, use the buttons to change the font and make the font you like - large, bold, small, strikethrough, etc.
Now that we've covered the technique for changing fonts, let's go through each font in more detail and see how it can be used.
How to write in bold on VKontakte
To write text in bold on the VK social network, you must carefully examine the font panel and find the B button there - this is the bold font. Select your text and click on this button. As an option for writing in bold in a regular message, you need to open the message editor, enter the symbol there many times and write a message in the subject box that appears, it will be in bold.
Beautiful font for the name of the VK group
In the group header you can also use various options to decorate it. For example, you can insert unicode emoticons that will attract the attention of users -
