Moon and sky symbols, copy and paste

Ready-made combos

Tap to copy the whole arrangement. These are the framed forms people use in bios, built from characters that are checked the same way the grid above is.

Dividers and borders

Box-drawing characters join without gaps when repeated, which is what makes these read as one rule rather than a row of dashes. Each character counts against your limit, so a long divider is an expensive piece of decoration.

In a bio

Three lines you can adapt. Replace the words and keep the spacing.

Lunar phases, planets and celestial marks, encoded for astronomical and astrological typesetting decades before emoji existed. The crescent and quarter forms are the best supported; the outer planets are rarer and more likely to render as boxes.

Astronomical characters, not emoji

The crescent moons, the planetary symbols and the comet were encoded for astronomical and astrological typesetting decades before emoji existed. They are monochrome text characters, and they follow the colour of the text around them.

The moon emoji most keyboards offer are separate codepoints entirely, rendered as fixed-colour images.

Which are safest

The first quarter and last quarter moons at U+263D and U+263E are the oldest and best covered, and they are the two most used in profiles. The crescent shapes read clearly at bio size and turn white on a dark theme, which is usually the intent.

The planetary symbols

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all have traditional glyphs here, and they carry meanings outside astronomy. The Mars and Venus symbols in particular are widely read as gender symbols, which is worth knowing before using one ornamentally in a name.

Where coverage thins

The outer planets, the asteroid symbols and the newer astronomical additions are rarer and considerably less well supported. They are the characters in this set most likely to arrive as empty boxes on an older handset.

Using them well

The crescent forms are the ones that read clearly at bio size and the ones people recognise. The full and new moon symbols are circles, which look like circles rather than like moons without the context of the others beside them.

A sequence of phases makes a divider that says something, which is unusual for a divider. Four or five characters is enough; the full eight-phase cycle is more than any bio can spare.

Be deliberate with the planetary symbols. Mars and Venus are widely read as gender symbols rather than as planets, and Mercury is read as astrological by most people who recognise it at all. That is fine if intended and awkward if not.