Use Discord’s built-in subtext in chat
- Open the message composer in a text channel or direct message.
- At the start of a line, type
-#followed by one regular space, then type your note. - Send the message. To make several lines small, put the prefix on every line you want Discord to shrink.
Paste this as one message to see how the three lines differ:
Friday game night
-# Bring headphones
-# We start at 8The first line stays regular size. The two lines with the prefix render as subtext. If every line should be small, paste your draft into the Discord subtext generator to add each prefix at once.
Why does Discord show the prefix?
Check that the hyphen is the first character on the line and that a regular space follows the hash. Use a chat message, and remove any backticks around your example: a code block displays the syntax literally. See Discord’s formatting guide for the supported Markdown.
For a display name or bio, check the exact field
Discord’s chat formatting does not turn a name into subtext. For a decorative label in a field that accepts it, try a short Unicode example such as ʰᵉˡˡᵒ from the small text generator. Those are different characters, so they can appear uneven or be rejected. Leave essential information in ordinary text.