Sparkles and glitter to copy and paste
Sparkle Emoji Copy and Paste: ✨ ✦ ✧ ⋆ and Glitter Symbols
Copy and paste sparkle emoji and glitter symbols: ✨, twinkle stars and tiny dots. Tap to copy one, or add several to a tray and copy them together.
Point at or focus a symbol to see its Unicode name.
A dot marks symbols that may show as color emoji on phones.
Sparkle emoji
Color emoji on phones and most apps.
Glitter and twinkle stars
Text sparkles that follow the color of your text.
Dots and shimmer
Small dots and marks that read as glitter between bigger symbols.
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Sparkle emoji and sparkle symbols
The sparkles emoji ✨ is the one most people mean. It is a color picture on phones. The second group is made of plain text stars and bursts such as ✦ and ✧, which follow the color of your text and work in places that do not take emoji.
The third group holds tiny dots and marks. Between larger sparkles they make a glitter effect without adding more stars.
Build a sparkle line
Choose “Add it to my tray”, then alternate one large sparkle with a few small dots, for example ✦ then two dots then ✧. Keep the pattern short. A line that repeats one idea reads as a decoration; a long mix tends to look noisy and can break across lines on a narrow screen.
Emoji or text?
Symbols marked with a dot may appear as color emoji. Use them where color helps and use the plain ones where the text must stay one color, such as in a bio or a name. Check the result on the device where it will be seen.
Common questions
What is the sparkles emoji?
It is ✨, named “sparkles” in Unicode. It is an emoji, so it is drawn as a color picture and its look depends on the device.
How do I get glitter without an emoji?
Use the text stars and the small dots on this page. They keep your text color and stay plain characters.
Why does my sparkle line wrap oddly?
Symbols have no spaces between them, so an app may break the line in the middle of the row. Add a space where a break would look fine, or shorten the row.
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