Heavy Outlined Black Star

It provides visual punch, decoration, or a custom bullet point.

✮ entered digital typography through the classic ITC Zapf Dingbats collection designed by Hermann Zapf during 1975–1978. A dingbat is an ornamental printer's mark, and typographers traditionally use this star to highlight headings, separate paragraphs, or accent items with a crisp geometric mark.

Because ✮ is a decorative glyph rather than a standardized scoring symbol, it rarely appears in formal rating scales. Instead, people add it to headlines, titles, or messages when they want something bolder and more distinctive than a standard asterisk or bullet.