Unicode has characters that exist only to attach to the one before them, the machinery behind every accent in every language. The combining long stroke overlay is one of these: it draws a horizontal line across whatever it follows. Applied to each character in turn, it produces a continuous strike across a whole word without any formatting involved.

What Strikethrough Communicates

Crossed-out text has a specific rhetorical meaning: this was said, and is now withdrawn, usually with a joke in the gap between the two. That makes it useful for asides, corrections, and old prices, and useless as pure decoration, since readers will always try to interpret it as retracted rather than styled.

Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers about Dashes text, where it works, and how to copy it into bios, usernames, and captions.

How does strikethrough text work here?+

A combining long stroke overlay is attached to each character, so the line is drawn through the text by Unicode itself rather than by an app formatting option.

Why use this instead of my app’s strikethrough button?+

Because most fields do not have one. Instagram bios, Discord names, and plain comment boxes offer no formatting at all, and this works in every one of them.

Will strikethrough survive copy and paste?+

Yes. The combining marks travel with the characters, so the strike stays intact wherever you paste it, unlike formatted strikethrough, which is stripped by plain text fields.

Are there downsides to strikethrough text?+

Screen readers may announce the combining marks or read the text oddly, and some platforms strip combining characters from username fields. Keep essential information unstruck.

Fonts Like Dashes

Closest styles to Dashes, and the rest of the catalogue is on the all fonts page.