Fourteen categories, every character checked against the Unicode database and shown with its codepoint. That last part matters more than it sounds. Many symbols look nearly identical but are different characters with very different device support, and the codepoint is the only reliable way to tell which one you actually copied.

Symbols are not fonts, and the distinction is practical rather than pedantic. A font style replaces your letters with styled versions of themselves. A symbol is a separate character you paste alongside your text. That is why symbols work in fields that reject styled text, and why each one costs its own character against a limit.

How to choose one

Older characters render more reliably. That is the rule underneath almost everything here. Arrows were encoded in 1993 for technical documents and render almost everywhere. The enclosed and supplement blocks arrived later and are covered patchily. Anything added in the last decade is the most likely to fail on a budget Android handset.

Text symbols and emoji behave differently. A text symbol takes the colour of the text around it, so it turns white on a dark theme. An emoji renders as a fixed-colour image whatever the theme, and may count as two characters rather than one. The same idea often exists as both, which is why a bio can look considered on one phone and mismatched on another. The quickest test is to switch your phone to dark mode and see what changes colour.

Each one costs a character. Obvious, and routinely forgotten. A fifteen-character divider is a tenth of an Instagram bio spent on something that carries no information.

What is on each page

Every character with its codepoint, because many symbols look nearly identical and are different characters with different support. Ready-made combos and borders, which is what most people actually came to copy. Worked bio lines you can adapt. And writing specific to that category: where the characters came from, which are safest, and what the common mistake is.