Special Symbols
A collection of 129 symbols you can copy straight out of the page — checks, stars, arrows, currency signs, shapes and keyboard marks. Click any tile to copy the character. Everything here is a real Unicode character, so it pastes into documents, slides and code as text, not as an image.
Checks and marks
Stars
Arrows
Maths and units
Currency
Punctuation and dashes
Shapes
Miscellaneous
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About Special Symbols
Every symbol you can copy straight out of the page: checks, stars, arrows, currency, geometric shapes and keyboard marks. One click copies the character, and it pastes as text into Word, slides, chat or code.
One caveat worth knowing up front: the same symbol can have different widths in different fonts. ★ runs wide in some typefaces, and ✓ may be substituted with a box in monospaced fonts. If you are laying out a table that must stay aligned, prefer geometric shapes like ■ □ ▲ ● — their widths are more predictable.
Colour is the other variable. ❤, ✅ and ✔ render as full-colour emoji on some systems and as flat glyphs on others, depending on whether an emoji font is present and whether a variation selector follows the character. Check the target platform before you commit to a design.
Frequently asked questions
It pastes as a box — what happened?
The target application has no glyph for that character. Use a more common symbol, or fall back to an image.
Why is it in colour on my phone?
The system rendered it as emoji. For a flat look, append the variation selector U+FE0E after the character.
Does one symbol count as one character?
Usually yes. Emoji with modifiers can occupy several code points and will count as two in a character counter.
Will these break in a PDF?
Normally no — PDF embeds fonts. If the file was exported with an unembedded default font, another machine may show missing glyphs.
