Text formatting and styles

Unlike a lot of other networks, we have a large range of formatting options. Our formatting rules are updated often, so as result check here for any changes. You can also check the bottom for the changelog.

Normal text formatting

URLs

URLs don't require any formatting rules to work. We automatically generate a preview of the site's contents such as the page title, image, and description. We do offer options to format the URL and change how it appears inside your post or comment.

Lists

You can create lists using *, however a blank line must be placed after each item except for the final item.

Example:

* Item


* Another Item


* Wait another?

Sub List

With lists if you don't use double new lines between items they will be grouped under the main item it is under

If you do not include a blank line between each item, it will be grouped under the main item.

* Main Item #1
* Sub item #1
* Sub item #2


* Main Item #2
* Sub item #1
* Sub item #2

GIFs

Giphy links that end in .gif will automatically embed the GIF. For example, the following URL will embed a GIF into the conversation.

https://media.giphy.com/media/3oEjHI8WJv4x6UPDB6/giphy.gif

Quote text

This will create a quote block used for quotes.

|| Content here and it can be multi line! ||

Line breaks

Adds a horizontal line break to your post.

Usage:

Text with a line break below

---

More text separated from everything else.

Special Formatting

We offer special formatting codes to customize your posts even more!

Colour Text

We offer several different codes to add colours to your text! You can either use shortform codes for our default colour palette, or use hexadecimal codes.

Highlighting Text

As well as colouring text, you can highlight it! Highlighting text follows the same rules as colouring it, however the format is slightly different. To hightlight, follow this format: ==cX Sample text! ==. Replace the 'X' with one of the codes from above to use a colour from our site palette. If you do not set the colour we will use c1 for example with == Sample text! ==.

Custom Colour Codes

We also offer the ability to utilise hexcodes so you can use colours outside of our default palette.

The format for custom codes in text is: *_XXXXXX _*. Replace "XXXXXX" with the hexcode for the intended colour. For example, to replicate "c1" the format is *_9E721F Sample! _*.

The rule applies to highlighting text and follows this format: ==XXXXXX Sample text! ==. Replacing "XXXXXX" will highlight with the given hexcode with a transparency added. For example, to highlight using colour "c1" use ==F3C774 Sample text! ==.

Superscript and subscript

Formatting codes have been added to allow for superscript and subscript text.

Headers

Main Heading

## Content here ##

Sub Heading

### Content here ###

Sub Heading 2

#### Content here ####

Sub Heading 3

##### Content here #####

Code Block

Not only can you provide code, but you can add the short codes :tab:, :tick:, or :hashtag: to allow special formatting in your code to render correctly.

• Single line code: ` code here `
• Multi-line code:

`` Content here and 
it can be multi 
line! 
``

Reveal / Spoilers Block

Hides content unless a user clicks the button to show the content. You can also add {media_spoiler} anywhere in your content to blur the attached media.

---- Content here and it can be multi line! ----

Tags and mentions

Uploaded File Location

Inside this block, replace FILENAMEHERE with the name of one of the files you uploaded for your conversation to render it in that location instead of at the bottom.

{file:FILENAMEHERE.jpg}

Personal Site Formatting

Your personal site, which can be found using https://USERNAME.myhey.cafe, can have special formatting. You can include <script> and <style> blocks that will only render on your personal site.

You can also use the main level tag tag to separate sections in different bubble boxes.

Recent Changes

2026-04-15: Reformatted the page.

Jan 4th 2026: We updated the format for italic from 2 underscores to 2 slashes on each side of the text. This change makes it so that the underscores can be used for underline text. Also added strike text using 2 dashes in the process of adding underline.