Dingbats & Ornamental Symbols
100+ decorative text symbols. Florettes, hands, crosses, checks—pure text, no emojis.
Florettes & Flowers
Pointing Hands
Index finger pointing
Crosses & Religious
Decorative Stars
Check Marks & X Marks
Scissors & Writing
Miscellaneous Dingbats
Dingbat Packs
Ready-to-copy collections
Florettes
8 items
Pointing Hands
8 items
Checks & X's
8 items
Decorative Stars
8 items
Religious Symbols
8 items
Cut & Write
8 items
Dingbats are decorative symbols originally designed as ornamental typeface characters. In the Unicode standard, they include an incredible variety of stars, crosses, arrows, checkmarks, and ornamental marks that add visual flair to any text content.
The term dingbat comes from the printing industry, where decorative elements were used to separate sections, mark important items, and embellish publications. Today, Unicode dingbats serve the same purpose in digital text—they are perfect for creating visual hierarchy, decorating social media bios, designing text-based borders, and adding emphasis to documents.
Our dingbats collection features stars and asterisks, crosses and marks, pointing hands, florettes and ornaments, snowflakes, and scissors and pencils. All symbols copy with one click and work universally across every platform, device, and operating system.
Pro tip: dingbats are perfect for creating visual separators between sections of text. A line of alternating dingbats like stars and florettes creates an elegant divider that works in documents, emails, and social media posts across all platforms.
How to Use
Click
Click any symbol to copy
Paste
Ctrl+V or Cmd+V
Use
In designs, bios, documents
FAQ
Dingbats are decorative text symbols originally from the Zapf Dingbats font family. They include florettes, pointing hands, crosses, check marks, and ornamental symbols—all as Unicode text characters.
Yes! Dingbats are Unicode text symbols that work on all platforms and devices. They display consistently in bios, documents, websites, and messages.
☞ (pointing hand) is commonly used to draw attention to important text, as a bullet point alternative, or for navigation hints. It's called 'White Right Pointing Index'.
✓ is a standard check mark, ✔ is a heavy (bold) check mark. Both work everywhere, but ✔ is more visible.
The term dingbat originated in 19th-century printing to describe ornamental type pieces used for decoration. The most famous digital dingbat fonts are Zapf Dingbats (1978) and Wingdings (1990), which brought decorative symbols to computers.
Yes! Dingbats are simple text symbols that display identically on all devices in a single color. Emojis are colorful images that look different on each platform. Many dingbat characters predate emojis by decades in the Unicode standard.