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Black Rectangle
- Unicode
- U+25AC
- Category
- Geometric
- HTML Entity
- ▬
- CSS
- \25AC
The Black Rectangle (▬) is a solid, horizontal geometric shape from the Unicode Geometric Shapes block. It is frequently used in typography as an extra-thick dash, a text separator, or to block out sensitive information in redacted documents. In digital spaces, people string multiple black rectangles together to create custom line dividers or text-based loading bars.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9644 or Win+. then search "black rectangle"
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "black rectangle"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 25AC
- HTML
- ▬
In Programming
Developers frequently use the black rectangle symbol in command-line interfaces (CLIs) to render text-based progress bars and visual dividers. It can also act as a placeholder character in wireframes or UI mockups to represent standard blocks of text.
Tags
bar
block
filled rectangle
geometric
horizontal rule
loading bar
progress bar
redaction
separator
shape
text art
text divider
thick dash