A cool way to differentiate telephatic or robotic dialogue from regular spoken dialogue?

[Reyezwriting]

So, one of my stories contains a lot of telepathic dialogue, and I format it like this:

Regular dialogue. “That’s awesome!”
Telepathic dialogue. “That’s awesome!”

But italics is boring AF.
Do you have a better idea?
I also want to differentiate electronic dialogue, for when an android talks, or when someone is talking through a radio or something.

I wanted to use angle brackets, like this.

The android started walking. <<Follow me, please.>>
or
<<So, that’s the situation,>> the man said through the radio.

But it seems that these brackets are mostly used to quote inside a quote.

Any ideas? Have you seen something besides quotation marks in published works?

 

[Anon2024]

To be honest, as long as your readers can understand it, it doesn’t matter. I personally like the italics.

 

[Agentt]

I personally like using this font for any stuff like that.

That includes scrolls

 

[Southdog]

I think an interesting way to do it, in a 1st-person "stream of consciousness" story, is to just have invasive thoughts appear in the prose.

However, one rule for non-spoken "dialogue" (oxymoronic) is that quotations mean people speaking. Just about anything works just so long as you aren't doing some goofy stuff like tagging dialogue or making it all-caps.

 

[CupcakeNinja]

So, one of my stories contains a lot of telepathic dialogue, and I format it like this:

Regular dialogue. “That’s awesome!”
Telepathic dialogue. “That’s awesome!”

But italics is boring AF.
Do you have a better idea?
I also want to differentiate electronic dialogue, for when an android talks, or when someone is talking through a radio or something.

I wanted to use angle brackets, like this.

The android started walking. <<Follow me, please.>>
or
<<So, that’s the situation,>> the man said through the radio.

But it seems that these brackets are mostly used to quote inside a quote.

Any ideas? Have you seen something besides quotation marks in published works?

C O L O R S

 

[Southdog]

C O L O R S

This is bad advice. For one, colorblind people will not like it. For two, it's obnoxious depending on site theme.

This man spreads lies.

 

[CupcakeNinja]

This is bad advice. For one, colorblind people will not like it. For two, it's obnoxious depending on site theme.

This man spreads lies

if we cared about the colorblind, maybe you'd have a point. But we don't. Just kneel to colored supremacy

 

[K5Rakitan]

Animorphs uses single angle brackets. I wanted to use those for my story as well, but fanfiction.net deletes angle brackets, so I went with «guillemets». They're basically double angle brackets, but they're a single character, so the brackets get closer together. I keep those handy in my notes document to copy and paste as needed.

 

[BlackKnightX]

I would just write a description or two about how the dialogue sounds like, but nothing wrong with getting a little more creative. One thing to keep in mind, though: do whatever you want as long as it’s consistent and not confusing.

 

[Sp4de]

In both of my stories I have AI that speak with brackets.
A slice of dialogue from my latest chap.

[We'll see how the dice roll. Anyway, go to sleep. It'll be easier to work when your body is more vulnerable and defenseless.]
"That's not comforting."

 

[TheEldritchGod]

I use ~Thought~
And 『ALIEN LANGUAGE』

I reserve italics and bold for modifying conversations.