Small marks for bios, captions and notes
Aesthetic Symbols: Copy and Paste Cute Text Symbols
Copy and paste aesthetic symbols: stars, hearts, flowers, moons, music notes, arrows and brackets. Tap one to copy it, or collect several in a tray.
Point at or focus a symbol to see its Unicode name.
A dot marks symbols that may show as color emoji on phones.
Stars and sparkles
The most used aesthetic marks. More on the star and sparkle pages.
Hearts
Outline, solid and ornamental hearts. More on the heart page.
Flowers and leaves
Text blossoms and a few color emoji. More on the flower page.
Moon, sun and weather
Sky marks for night and day.
Music
Notes and signs.
Circles and shapes
Dots, rings and small geometric marks.
Tiny details
Small marks that sit well between words.
Arrows
Pointers, curved arrows and decorated arrows.
Marks and writing
Check marks, pencils and other small signs.
Faces, crowns and signs
A few small faces and crowns.
Brackets and quotes
Wrap a name or a title.
Everything runs in your browser. What you type is not uploaded or saved. These styles are Unicode symbols, so how they look depends on the device and app you paste into.
How to use the symbols
Tap a symbol to copy it, then paste it where you are writing. To build a line of several, switch the setting to “Add it to my tray”, tap as many as you like, and copy the whole tray once. The tray is a normal text box, so you can type in it and fix the order before you copy.
Point at a symbol, or focus it with the keyboard, and its Unicode name and code point show under the tray. That is the official name from the Unicode character list, not a meaning we made up.
Text symbols and emoji
Most symbols here are plain text characters. They use the color of the words around them and sit on the line like a letter. A few are also on the Unicode emoji list, and on phones those may be drawn as small color pictures instead. A dot in the corner of a symbol marks those.
If you want a symbol to stay a plain shape, pick one without a dot. Hearts, stars, flowers and dividers each have their own page with more choices: this site also has separate heart, star, sparkle, flower and border pages.
Check it before you rely on it
Every symbol here is drawn by a font that ships with macOS. Other devices and apps use their own fonts, so a rare symbol can show as an empty box somewhere else. Paste into the place you will actually use it and look at the result before you share it. Screen readers may read the Unicode name of each symbol aloud, so keep decorations short in text that matters.
Common questions
Why does a symbol look different on my phone?
Each device draws symbols with its own fonts. Symbols with a dot may also turn into a color emoji on phones, while the others keep the color of your text.
Why do I see an empty box after pasting?
The app or font you pasted into has no picture for that character. Try another symbol from the same group, or paste it somewhere else to see whether the app is the cause.
Can I use these in a username or a bio?
Often yes, but each service decides which characters it accepts and may remove some. Paste one in and save before you build a long line.
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