diff --git a/Example/ViewController.swift b/Example/ViewController.swift
index fbf9df2..78f9464 100644
--- a/Example/ViewController.swift
+++ b/Example/ViewController.swift
@@ -15,6 +15,17 @@ class ViewController: UIViewController {
     
     override func viewDidLoad() {
         super.viewDidLoad()
+
+        
+        let attributes = [
+            NSFontAttributeName : UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 14),
+            NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.black,
+            NSBackgroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.groupTableViewBackground,
+            NSStrokeWidthAttributeName : 3.0,
+            ] as [String : Any]
+        
+        let placeholder = NSAttributedString(string: "NSAttributedString NSAttributedString NSAttributedString NSAttributedString \nNSAttributedString NSAttributedString NSAttributedString NSAttributedString \nNSAttributedString NSAttributedString NSAttributedString NSAttributedString \n", attributes: attributes)
+        placeholderTextView.attributedPlaceholder = placeholder
     }
     
     override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
diff --git a/KMPlaceholderTextView/KMPlaceholderTextView.swift b/KMPlaceholderTextView/KMPlaceholderTextView.swift
index 704800d..7207335 100644
--- a/KMPlaceholderTextView/KMPlaceholderTextView.swift
+++ b/KMPlaceholderTextView/KMPlaceholderTextView.swift
@@ -33,9 +33,17 @@ open class KMPlaceholderTextView: UITextView {
     
     private var placeholderLabelConstraints = [NSLayoutConstraint]()
     
+    open var attributedPlaceholder: NSAttributedString? {
+        didSet {
+            placeholderLabel.attributedText = attributedPlaceholder
+        }
+    }
+    
     @IBInspectable open var placeholder: String = "" {
         didSet {
-            placeholderLabel.text = placeholder
+            if attributedPlaceholder == nil{
+                placeholderLabel.text = placeholder
+            }
         }
     }
     
@@ -103,7 +111,11 @@ open class KMPlaceholderTextView: UITextView {
         placeholderLabel.font = font
         placeholderLabel.textColor = placeholderColor
         placeholderLabel.textAlignment = textAlignment
-        placeholderLabel.text = placeholder
+        if let attributedPlaceholder = attributedPlaceholder{
+            placeholderLabel.attributedText = attributedPlaceholder
+        }else{
+            placeholderLabel.text = placeholder
+        }
         placeholderLabel.numberOfLines = 0
         placeholderLabel.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
         placeholderLabel.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false