Dot and bullet 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.

Bullets, middle dots and small marks. The middle dot is the most useful character here for a bio: it separates items on one line without the visual weight of a slash or a pipe, and it costs one character.

The middle dot is the useful one

If you take one character from this page, take the middle dot at U+00B7. It sits at mid-height, reads as a separator rather than as punctuation, costs one character, and is supported by every font in existence because it has been in Latin-1 since 1987.

It is the character behind almost every well-composed bio line you have seen: film · coffee · 2003.

What it is not

The bullet at U+2022 is larger, sits lower, and was designed to start a list item. Used as a separator it reads as slightly wrong, in the way a hyphen used as a dash does.

The one dot leader at U+2024 looks like a full stop and is meant for tables of contents. It confuses screen readers and should be avoided in a name.

Spacing matters

A middle dot needs a space either side to work as a separator. Without them it reads as a decimal point. That costs two more characters and is worth it.

The heavier options

The black circle at U+25CF and the white circle at U+25CB are shapes rather than punctuation, and they suit lists more than inline separation.