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Typical word processor software offers a wide selection of shapes and colors. Several regular symbols, such as * ( asterisk ), - ( hyphen ), . ( period ), and even o (lowercase Latin letter O ), are conventionally used in ASCII-only text or other environments where bullet characters are not available.
Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes. These characters are characterized by being designed to be connected horizontally and/or vertically with adjacent characters, which requires proper alignment.
Newspapers, magazines, and other works can use dinkuses as simple ornamentation of typography, for solely aesthetic reasons. [13] When a dinkus is used primarily for aesthetic purposes, it often takes the form of a fleuron, e.g. , or sometimes a dingbat. [14] While fleurons, dingbats, and dinkuses are usually distinct, their uses can overlap.
The Geometric Shapes block contains eight emoji: U+25AA–U+25AB, U+25B6, U+25C0 and U+25FB–U+25FE. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The block has sixteen standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the eight emoji.
Block Elements is a Unicode block containing square block symbols of various fill and shading. Used along with block elements are box-drawing characters, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters.
ASCII art of a fish. ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII).
The Cool S consists of 14 line segments, forming a stylized, pointed S-shape.It has also been compared to the infinity symbol. [4] The S appears to have depth, where the overlap in the center of the S and the appearance of a potential altitude change at the top and bottom of the S make it look like the S connects back to itself in the same way as the infinity symbol does. [5]
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