Character names in World of Warcraft follow a naming policy, and it exists because the world is meant to hold together as a setting.
Names are limited to letters with an accent set, which rules out styled Unicode and keeps a realm readable.
Where styling fits in an MMO
Guild names follow the same policy as character names, so they stay in the plain character set as well.
Where styled text works is outside those fields, which means guild websites, roleplay profile addons, Discord servers, and recruitment posts.
Roleplay communities in particular use styled headers in profiles, since that text is stored by an addon rather than by the game.
Getting a fantasy look without breaking the rules
- Gothic and script fit the setting and belong on your guild site rather than on your nameplate.
- Accented letters are allowed in character names and give a fantasy feel within the rules.
- Recruitment posts are the highest value place to style a heading, since they compete with dozens of other posts.
- Keep the guild name in your posts searchable, since applicants look it up.
Tip: We styled the guild name in our recruitment post header and left the plain spelling underneath. Applicants said the post caught their eye, and they could still copy the name correctly into the search, which the previous version had made impossible.
Related tools: Dota2 Fancy Name Generator , World of Tanks Fancy Name 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.