diff --git a/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md b/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md
index 8315f3074b03e0d89fc8e5476752c71c384c52b2..312585598aceeab14b0a1c82c07a212a6637df03 100644
--- a/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md
+++ b/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md
@@ -705,11 +705,11 @@ Since Create React App doesn’t support server rendering, you might be wonderin
 <!doctype html>
 <html lang="en">
   <head>
-    <meta property="og:title" content="%OG_TITLE%">
-    <meta property="og:description" content="%OG_DESCRIPTION%">
+    <meta property="og:title" content="__OG_TITLE__">
+    <meta property="og:description" content="__OG_DESCRIPTION__">
 ```
 
-Then, on the server, regardless of the backend you use, you can read `index.html` into memory and replace `%OG_TITLE%`, `%OG_DESCRIPTION%`, and any other placeholders with values depending on the current URL. Just make sure to sanitize and escape the interpolated values so that they are safe to embed into HTML!
+Then, on the server, regardless of the backend you use, you can read `index.html` into memory and replace `__OG_TITLE__`, `__OG_DESCRIPTION__`, and any other placeholders with values depending on the current URL. Just make sure to sanitize and escape the interpolated values so that they are safe to embed into HTML!
 
 If you use a Node server, you can even share the route matching logic between the client and the server. However duplicating it also works fine in simple cases.