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WhatsApp launches new font: Here's how you can use it

Updated on: 20 July,2016 03:51 PM IST  | 
mid-day online correspondent |

Popular Instant Messaging App WhatsApp has silently launched a new feature - a new type of font similar to Fixedsys in Windows

WhatsApp launches new font: Here's how you can use it

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Popular Instant Messaging App WhatsApp has silently launched a new feature - a new type of font similar to Fixedsys in Windows.


But, WhatsApp users have to trigger it in a unique way while chatting to be able to utilise it. They would require to put the backquote symbol (') to initialise it before sending their message (pictured below). The drawback is that this is the only option to use the font and it doesn't support bold or italics.


WhatsApp font


The feature is also available for iOS users.

The Facebook-owned insta message service claimed in June that its users are making 100 million calls a day.

To recall, the company had rolled out voice calling feature to its users in phases last year. The feature was first rolled out to WhatsApp users on Android followed by iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone.

The voice call feature on Whatsapp is free and non-chargeable. The consumers use internet data to place the call. Although, the data used is charged according to the internet pack. The instant messaging service back in February had claimed that one billion people used WhatsApp. (Read more)

In May, WhatsApp was named the most popular messaging app all over the world and is used in 109 countries, or 55.6 percent of the world.

The countries include India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and many other countries in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

WhatsApp currently has over one billion monthly active users. In India, over 70 million people use the messaging service. (Read more)

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