Use Cases
Clan Tags
Short bracketed tags for gaming names.
Short answer
Keep it to two to four characters inside a decorative frame. Most games cap the name field, and bracket characters count against that cap.
Keep it short
Most games cap the name field, and bracket characters count toward that cap. Two to four characters inside a decorative frame is the usual sweet spot.
Counting characters correctly
The limit applies to characters, not to visible width, and every bracket counts. A four-letter tag inside a two-character frame either side is eight characters before the name itself begins. In a sixteen-character field that leaves eight, which is why tags drift shorter the more decorative the frame becomes.
Choosing a frame that survives
Plain ASCII brackets render everywhere. The ornamental frames borrowed from Tibetan and Javanese look striking on a desktop and are frequently missing on phones, where they appear as empty boxes — which turns a carefully chosen tag into a row of rectangles for a meaningful share of the people who see it.
Where the tag actually appears
A clan tag is not only shown on your profile. It appears in kill feeds, scoreboards, spectator overlays and chat, each of which renders at a different size and often in a different font from the menu you chose it in. A frame that reads clearly in the character-select screen can become an unreadable smudge in a kill feed at speed, which is the moment most people actually see it.