Tumblr is one of the friendliest places for this, because the aesthetic there has always leaned on typography.
Blog titles and descriptions both take styled characters, and unlike most platforms, the theme you pick will not strip them out.
Which parts of a blog accept styled text?
The blog title, the description, page titles, and post bodies all accept it. That covers everything a visitor actually reads.
The URL is the exception, since it has to stay in plain characters to work as a web address.
Post editors on Tumblr also have real formatting, so bold and italic there are better done with the editor than with styled characters.
Styles that suit the platform
- Soft cursive and script match the aesthetic most Tumblr themes are built around.
- Spaced-out letters make a good header, and they change no characters at all, so nothing can render as a box.
- Small caps works well for section headers inside a long post.
- Tags should stay plain, because styled tags are treated as different tags and nobody will find them.
Tip: I spaced out the letters in a blog title and it looked right on the desktop theme and cramped in the mobile app. Checking both views before settling is worth the thirty seconds, since most people arrive on mobile.
Related tools: Aesthetic Fonts Generator , Fancy Bio Generator and Artistic Font Generator .
This page styles text you already have. If you are still working out the name itself, a nickname generator covers that side, and it is easier to pick the words first and style them once at the end.