Thirty aesthetic bios to copy, paste and type over: five each in soft, dark, starry, minimal, cute and grunge. Each is one to five lines of decoration round plain words such as name, pronouns and likes. Some apps strip these characters.
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Pick a mood, tap a bio
Every mood has a one-liner, a two-liner and three taller layouts. Soft is rings and waves, Starry stars and a crescent, Cute hearts, flowers and a bow, Minimal bars, dots and arrows, Grunge slashes, crosses and shaded blocks. For gothic bios copy and paste from Dark and gothic: daggers, crescents and floral hearts.
Type over the words
Paste it, then swap name, pronouns, likes and the rest for your own. Delete any line you do not want. No layout has a right-hand edge, so nothing falls out of step however long your words are.
Short on room? The six one-liners are 23 to 29 characters before you type, and every note gives its bio's count.
Mostly. No layout relies on a fixed-width font or on kept spaces. A box that reads Markdown may join the lines into one. A character the font lacks shows as an empty box: the six keyboard-only bios, three Minimal and three Grunge, cannot lose one.
How long is each bio?
From 23 characters, Minimal one-line bio, to 96, Dark thorn bio and Grunge loud bio, before you type. Your own words add to that, so check the total against the limit of the profile you are filling in.
What should I leave out of a bio?
Your age, school, town, phone number and email address. None of the 30 layouts has a field for them. A first name or a nickname, pronouns and a few things you like say enough to a stranger.
All 30 bios
Soft 5
Soft list bioFour small bullets under the name: pronouns, likes, a thing in progress and a mood. 5 lines, 29 wide, 88 characters before you type. Decoration: Hermitian conjugate matrix (U+22B9), White bullet (U+25E6).
Soft one-line bioName, pronouns and one thing you like on a single line, with a small cross-shaped star at each end. 1 line, 27 wide, 27 characters before you type. Decoration: Hermitian conjugate matrix (U+22B9), Hyphenation point (U+2027).
Soft ribbon bioA ribbon of small curves over and under one line that holds everything. 3 lines, 20 wide, 55 characters before you type. Decoration: Character tie (U+2040), Undertie (U+203F), White circle (U+25CB).
Soft two-line bioA name between two rings, then one sentence of your own under it. 2 lines, 20 wide, 33 characters before you type. Decoration: Degree sign (U+00B0), Modifier letter plus sign (U+02D6), Hyphenation point (U+2027).
Soft wave bioWaves either side of the name and three suns down the edge. 4 lines, 24 wide, 70 characters before you type. Decoration: Triple tilde (U+224B), White sun with rays (U+263C).
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Dark and gothic 5
Dark diamond bioBlack and white diamonds take turns down the edge: name, pronouns, likes and a quote. 4 lines, 24 wide, 64 characters before you type. Decoration: Black diamond (U+25C6), White diamond (U+25C7).
Dark framed bioA double rule above and below, with a crescent in the middle of each. 4 lines, 19 wide, 54 characters before you type. Decoration: Box drawings double horizontal (U+2550), Last quarter moon (U+263E), First quarter moon (U+263D).
Dark one-line bioName, pronouns and likes between daggers: the gothic bio that fits on a single line. 1 line, 27 wide, 27 characters before you type. Decoration: Dagger (U+2020).
Dark thorn bioFive lines: floral hearts round the name, three thorns pointing down, a last leaf before the quote. 5 lines, 29 wide, 96 characters before you type. Decoration: Floral heart (U+2766), Black down-pointing triangle (U+25BC), Rotated floral heart bullet (U+2767).
Dark two-line bioA name between two crescents and one sentence after a floral heart. 2 lines, 18 wide, 27 characters before you type. Decoration: Last quarter moon (U+263E), First quarter moon (U+263D), Floral heart (U+2766).
Starry 5
Starry list bioBlack and white stars by turns: name, pronouns, likes and something you hope to do. 4 lines, 29 wide, 69 characters before you type. Decoration: Black star (U+2605), White star (U+2606).
Starry night bioA crescent in a line of stars on top, stars alone underneath. 4 lines, 19 wide, 62 characters before you type. Decoration: Middle dot (U+00B7), Six pointed black star (U+2736), Last quarter moon (U+263E).
Starry one-line bioA six-pointed star at each end and a middle dot between the three fields. 1 line, 27 wide, 27 characters before you type. Decoration: Six pointed black star (U+2736), Middle dot (U+00B7).
Starry two-line bioThe name in a row of small stars, then a sentence of your own. 2 lines, 16 wide, 33 characters before you type. Decoration: Star operator (U+22C6), White star (U+2606).
Starry wish bioFive lines, each led by an outlined star, ending on a wish. 5 lines, 29 wide, 89 characters before you type. Decoration: Stress outlined white star (U+2729).
Minimal 5
Minimal arrow bioA name, then three lines that each start with an arrow. 4 lines, 24 wide, 62 characters before you type. Decoration: Rightwards arrow (U+2192).
Minimal bracket bioThe name in square brackets over four plain lines. 5 lines, 22 wide, 83 characters before you type. Keyboard characters only.
Minimal list bioOne field to a line, each after a middle dot. 3 lines, 21 wide, 39 characters before you type. Decoration: Middle dot (U+00B7).
Minimal one-line bioThree fields and two bars, nothing else. 1 line, 23 wide, 23 characters before you type. Keyboard characters only.
Minimal two-line bioName and pronouns either side of a slash, three likes under them. 2 lines, 19 wide, 35 characters before you type. Keyboard characters only.
Cute 5
Cute flower bioA row of seven flowers above the two lines and another below. 4 lines, 19 wide, 62 characters before you type. Decoration: Black florette (U+273F), White florette (U+2740).
Cute heart list bioFive hearts, five answers, with a snack and an animal among them. 5 lines, 23 wide, 86 characters before you type. Decoration: White heart suit (U+2661).
Cute hello bioA waving face says hi, then music notes lead three lines. 4 lines, 28 wide, 82 characters before you type. Decoration: Eighth note (U+266A), Beamed eighth notes (U+266B).
Cute one-line bioA bow with a heart in it up front, then a heart after each field. 1 line, 29 wide, 29 characters before you type. Decoration: Latin small letter closed open e (U+029A), White heart suit (U+2661), Latin small letter closed reversed open e (U+025E).
Cute two-line bioThe name between two flowers, a sentence between two hearts. 2 lines, 20 wide, 29 characters before you type. Decoration: Black florette (U+273F), White heart suit (U+2661).
Grunge 5
Grunge loud bioFive lines off a column of double colons, the name in capitals. 5 lines, 25 wide, 96 characters before you type. Keyboard characters only.
Grunge one-line bioDouble slashes at both ends and a single slash between the fields. 1 line, 29 wide, 29 characters before you type. Keyboard characters only.
Grunge static bioShaded blocks fade in and out round the name, and ballot crosses lead the lines. 4 lines, 21 wide, 67 characters before you type. Decoration: Light shade (U+2591), Medium shade (U+2592), Dark shade (U+2593), Ballot x (U+2717).
Grunge tape bioA rule of ten diagonal crosses above and below, like tape across a poster. 4 lines, 19 wide, 56 characters before you type. Decoration: Box drawings light diagonal cross (U+2573).
Grunge two-line bioThe name between two pairs of x, a sentence in square brackets. 2 lines, 20 wide, 31 characters before you type. Keyboard characters only.
How this list was compiled: Own work, written for this page on 2026-09-30: 30 profile bios to type over, five in each of six moods, none copied from a template list or another site. The placeholder words are plain (name, pronouns, likes, a quote, a mood), and no bio has a field for an age, a school, a place, a phone number or an email address. Leave those out of a profile anyone can read. The 38 decoration characters come from 11 Unicode blocks (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt). Each was checked against the Unicode Character Database, version 18.0.0: names and categories in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, width classes in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/EastAsianWidth.txt, the Emoji property in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt and the version each character arrived in from https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt, all read on 2026-09-30. None is East Asian Wide, none has the Emoji property, every one has been in Unicode since version 6.0 or earlier, and no bio changes under Unicode normalization. No bio has a right-hand wall, a line that starts with a space or two spaces together, so none needs a monospaced font. A CommonMark parser (markdown-it-py 4.0.0, run on 2026-09-30) read no markup into any of the 30, but it returns each of the 24 multi-line bios as one paragraph whose line endings are soft breaks, which a browser shows as spaces: in a box that reads Markdown those can arrive as one run-on line. Licence: own work