Technical information

Symbol
NameLight shade
Unicode numberU+2591
CategoryShade block characters
DescriptionThe Unicode character ░, or U+2591, is known as the "Light Shade". It belongs to the "Block Elements" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This symbol is a block that is filled with a light or sparse pattern of dots, intended to represent a light shade or tint. It is often used in creating graphics and diagrams in text-based environments, where it can be combined with other block elements to produce varying levels of shading or to fill areas of the screen.

Encoding

HTML Entity░
HTML Entity (hex)░
HTML Entity (named)
URL Escape Code%E2%96%91
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x96 0x91
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010110:10010001
UTF-160x2591
UTF-320x00002591

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2591"
CSS Code\2591
JavaScript"\u2591"
Perl\x{2591}
Python 2u"\u2591"
Python 3\u2591
Ruby\u{2591}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ░ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

12px
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28px
36px
48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9617;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2591";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References