Computer text symbols

Heart text symbols❣

I can bet you've seen the ♥ heart symbol lots of times before on Facebook, MySpace, and Youtube. There also are several other heart symbols you probably didn't know about.

On Facebook you can express your love and affection <3 and ♥ → ☕ and ❤ → ☕. You may also want to invite someone for a coffee with the coffee cup symbol ☕ → ☕. You may not see the coffee cup symbol in your browser if it's got default font that is limited to a few symbols, but Facebook will process it into the image anyway.

What heart symbol means

I think, everybody who ever fell in love knows that it gives a strong feeling of harmony. Of calming safety and satisfaction. You feel as if you have ultimately found the right person you can share your life with.

And this feeling is present in your very heart, because of the hormonal, neuromediatory and whatever influences your brain makes upon on it. This is the key to why heart symbol is so popular. It's symmetric aesthetically pleasing shape that looks a lot like human heart, although it's far from being exactly like it. Interestingly, because of the symbolic symmetry and division in the middle - it takes two halfs to make the whole. This gives birth to further symbolic interpretations.

How to input hearts

Choose your platform and read a guide.

From Keyboard

Alt Codes

Alt Codes

Shortcut technique that works on Desktops and most Laptops running MS Windows. You press Alt and, while holding it, type a code on Num Pad while it's turned on. Please, watch my guide if you're running a laptop. You can type many frequently used symbols with this method.

Alt Code	Symbol
3	♥

Shift States

Shift states for Windows symbols

Configure your keyboard layout in Windows so that you can type all additional symbols you want as easy as any other text. Takes about 5-10 minutes to set things up, but you'll be typing like a boss. You can assign all possible heart symbols (♥ ❤ ❥ ❣ ❦ ❧) and any other text characters to your keyboard using this technique.

Character Map

MS Windows Character map

CharMap allows you to view and use all characters and symbols available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Webdings") installed on your computer. You can input all heart symbols using it.

Character Palette

Character Palette allows you to view and use all characters and symbols, including hearts, available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Webdings") installed on your computer.

Apple Mac OS Character Palette

From Keyboard

Linux keyboard: Unicode hex codes composition

Unicode hex code	Symbol	Unicode hex code	Symbol
2665	♥	2764	❤
2765	❥	2763	❣
2766	❦	2767	❧
2661	♡	10e6	ღ

There actually are 3 different ways to type symbols on Linux with a keyboard. But only Unicode hex codes can produce heart text symbols. With this method you can type all the heart symbols and all the other possible text symbols.

Character map

Linux OS Character maps

Character map allows you to view and use all characters and symbols available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Webdings") installed on your computer. It can also help you lookup Unicode codes for entering symbols with keyboard.