# Embed

> Discord’s structured rich-message format — a bordered block with a title, description, fields, colour, images and a footer. The standard way bots present formatted output.

- Canonical: https://discordtools.blog/glossary/embed
- Group: Development
- See also: https://discordtools.blog/glossary/webhook, https://discordtools.blog/glossary/sticky-message
- Updated: 2026-08-31
- Publication: The Index, an independent site not affiliated with Discord Inc.

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Embeds have hard limits: 25 fields, 6,000 characters total across the whole embed, and 10
embeds per message. Hitting them mid-build is a common surprise for anything generating
embeds from data.

Images in embeds must be reachable public URLs, or an attachment referenced with the
`attachment://` scheme.