Alt key codes give you access to hundreds of special ASCII characters, from accent marks to tiny icons. We show you how to use the Alt codes and also Word's Symbol library.

Select Character Info, and you can view all the font’s details in a dialog box, including a pleasing grid display that shows how the letter or symbol maps against standard typeface measurements.

In addition to introducing a new logo last year, Google Fonts added support for open source icons.Google’s Material Symbols are now available leveraging variable font technology.. Many of these ...

Feb. 17 -- Microsoft is facing some questions about political correctness and fonts this week following the release of a critical Windows update that also happens to include a previously released ...

More robust fonts may include hundreds of extra symbols and characters beyond the primary scripts they represent, whether they’re focused on European languages, Adlam, Arabic, Devanagari, Hanzi ...

Chinese required a grid of 16 by 16 or larger—i.e., at least 32 bytes of memory (256 bits) per character. Were one to imagine a font containing 70,000 low-resolution Chinese characters, the ...

However, if you build a symbol font, the symbols may not have corresponding keyboard characters. In that case, you select a character or hexadecimal value to represent each symbol in the font and ...