How do you list social media links on a website without using icons?

I know the easiest way to list social media links is to use icons representing the respective platforms, but have you tried doing it without icons or seen it in the wild? Something more than just a plain list like :

• Twitter
• Dev.to
• Github

I'm looking for styling inspiration.

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[𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐝]

Not specifically social media links, but here are some nice text link hover animations on tympanus: tympanus.net/Development/CreativeL...

[Kelvin Wangonya]

Awesome resource. The link effects are really nice. I'll definitely be using some of these in my projects. Thanks.

[Kelvin Wangonya]

Interesting 😄 I'm thinking something like:

🐦 - twitter
👨🏽‍💻 - github
💼 - linkedin

...right? 😅 Of course having the names show on hover or something...
It would be a bit harder for some users to get it but it's a really fun idea.

[Lela]

I immediately thought of CSS Tricks footer social links!
I hope it helps 😊

[Kelvin Wangonya]

Yeah! I'd never noticed it. Looks awesome. Thanks 😀

[Ryan Carter]

I've seen things like [tw] @username as a low level kind of icon

[Ice or Fire]

Why not use icons for social media links? The user recognizes the icons for FB/Twitter/IG/etc. and knows exactly what to expect so it seems like a best practice to me.

[Kelvin Wangonya]

I agree that using icons is the best way. I just want to see other ways people have done it.