Light shade copy & paste
░ is light shade, a plain-text Unicode symbol from the Block Elements block. On Aesthetic Symbols it lives in the borders & shapes collection. As plain text it takes on the font and colour of wherever you paste it — a bio, a username, a caption or a stream title.
- Unicode
- U+2591
- HTML entity
- ░
- CSS content
- \2591
- JavaScript
- \u{2591}
- UTF-8 bytes
- E2 96 91
- Made of
U+2591 ░ · Block Elements
Will it show up? · Long-established text symbols
Plain-text characters from blocks that mainstream desktop and mobile fonts have covered for years. These are the safe ones.
Worked out from how each character is encoded, not from a test on a real device.
Similar symbols
- ─Light horizontal line
- ━Heavy horizontal line
- │Light vertical line
- ┃Heavy vertical line
- ┄Light triple-dash horizontal
- ┅Heavy triple-dash horizontal
- ┈Light quadruple-dash horizontal
- ┉Heavy quadruple-dash horizontal
- ╌Light double-dash horizontal
- ╍Heavy double-dash horizontal
- ═Double horizontal line
- ║Double vertical line
- ╔Double down-right corner
- ╗Double down-left corner
- ╚Double up-right corner
- ╝Double up-left corner