Today is World Emoji Day, a clever little commemoration by Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge and not the Unicode Consortium that has created and maintained the symbol system in the first place. It ...

If you come across a symbol you’ve never seen before, or you want to look up the unicode for a certain symbol, it may be a small challenge to search for it if you’re not entirely sure of its name.

From 1993 until 2000, Prince famously dropped his name after a dispute with Warner Bros. and began referring to himself using a symbol. It became known as the "Love Symbol" and was created by blending ...

'⍼' is a symbol included in fonts for mathematical symbols. For example, if you expand the '⍼' included in the mathematical formula / chemical formula font 'Cambria Math', it looks like this. It is a ...

You may have heard that 250 more emojis, the little smiley face icons and other symbols you can send in text messages, are coming to a cellphone near you. The story of the emoji starts in Japan in the ...

Unicode is a massive, sprawling effort that pairs a number to every unique character in a language, every punctuation mark, every math symbol, and much more. And nearly all of it is available within ...