About CopyGlyph

CopyGlyph is a free reference for copy and paste symbols. It started from a simple frustration: most symbol sites cover a single character, wrap it in ads, and still make you hunt for the code point. We wanted one clean, fast page that treats every glyph like a type specimen, big and legible, with a one-click copy and every code you might need.

What it covers

There are 416+ symbols here today, grouped into 12 categories: arrows, hearts, stars, check marks, currency, math, punctuation, brackets, zodiac, lines, corners and fancy letters. Each symbol has its own page with the Unicode code point, HTML entities, CSS escape, JavaScript escape, UTF-8 bytes and, where one exists, a Windows alt code. The plan is to grow toward a page per character over time.

Where the data comes from

The character names, code points and category memberships come from the Unicode Character Database, the reference data the Unicode Consortium publishes alongside each release of the standard. The code representations are derived from the code point rather than stored: the decimal HTML entity is the code point in decimal, the hex entity and the CSS escape are the same number in hexadecimal, and the UTF-8 bytes and UTF-16 units are the standard encodings of that code point. Those are computed at build time, so they cannot drift.

The one layer that is not mechanical is the Windows alt code. There is no field in the Unicode database for it, because it is a Windows convention rather than a Unicode property. Alt codes here are only listed where a documented one exists, and characters without one say so rather than showing a guess. Where a character has both a legacy OEM code and a decimal Unicode code, both are given, because they behave differently in different applications. That distinction is explained in the Windows alt codes guide.

We do not print a Unicode version number on this site. The dataset has not been pinned to a specific release and stating one we have not verified would be worse than stating none. If you find a code point, an entity or an alt code that is wrong, report it and it gets fixed within a week.

Not the other CopyGlyphs

The name is not unique, so to be explicit: this is CopyGlyph.dev. It is not related to copyglyph.com, to the open source project CopyGlyphs on GitHub, to the Figma plugin of the same name, or to the RoboFont extension copyGlyphs. Different projects, different people, no shared code or data. If you arrived here looking for one of those, this is not it.

Who makes it

CopyGlyph is built and maintained by FusionStudios, a Dutch studio that builds fast, private, client-side tools. There is no editorial team and no advertising relationship behind the data: the site is one of a set of reference tools the studio runs, and the reason it exists is the same reason the API and the widget are free, which is that a tool people build on is worth more than a page people bounce off. If you need something like this inside your own product, the studio is reachable through the contact page.

How it works

The whole site is static and runs in your browser. When you click a glyph, the copy happens locally through the clipboard API. Nothing you search or copy is uploaded, logged or tracked. There is no account, no paywall and no limit.

Built to be built on

Beyond the reference itself, CopyGlyph ships a free JSON API and an embeddable picker so other makers can reuse the data. If a symbol is missing or a detail is wrong, please get in touch.

Example names used across the site, such as Acme or Globex, are fictional and used only to illustrate. Symbol data last checked 2026-07-26.