Light Shade

Group: Box drawing

Keywords

box-drawing

About this character

Light Shade belongs to the Box drawing group and is encoded at U+2591. It was added in Unicode 0.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+2591
Hex: 2591
Decimal: 9617
HTML: ░
CSS: \2591
JavaScript: \u2591
Python: \u2591
UTF-8: E2 96 91

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

Box Drawings Light Horizontal U+2500 Similar
Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal U+2501 Similar
Box Drawings Light Vertical U+2502 Similar
Box Drawings Heavy Vertical U+2503 Similar
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Horizontal U+2504 Similar
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Horizontal U+2505 Similar
Box Drawings Light Triple Dash Vertical U+2506 Similar
Box Drawings Heavy Triple Dash Vertical U+2507 Similar
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Horizontal U+2508 Similar
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Horizontal U+2509 Similar
Box Drawings Light Quadruple Dash Vertical U+250A Similar
Box Drawings Heavy Quadruple Dash Vertical U+250B Similar
Box Drawings Light Down And Right U+250C Similar
Box Drawings Down Light And Right Heavy U+250D Similar
Box Drawings Down Heavy And Right Light U+250E Similar
Box Drawings Heavy Down And Right U+250F Similar
Box Drawings Light Down And Left U+2510 Similar
Box Drawings Down Light And Left Heavy U+2511 Similar
Box Drawings Down Heavy And Left Light U+2512 Similar
Box Drawings Heavy Down And Left U+2513 Similar
Box Drawings Light Up And Right U+2514 Similar
Box Drawings Up Light And Right Heavy U+2515 Similar
Box Drawings Up Heavy And Right Light U+2516 Similar
Box Drawings Heavy Up And Right U+2517 Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.