╫
Box Drawing 108
- Unicode
- U+256B
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╫
- CSS
- \256B
The ╫ symbol, officially known as Box Drawing Vertical Double and Horizontal Single, is a legacy text-graphic character from the early days of computing. It was originally used in MS-DOS and terminal environments to draw grid lines, tables, and window borders directly in plain text. Today, developers and digital artists use it to build retro command-line interfaces and intricate ASCII art.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9579
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- HTML
- ╫
In Programming
This symbol is primarily used in command-line interfaces (CLIs) and terminal applications to format plain-text tables, debug logs, and structural grids without relying on graphical assets.
Tags
MS-DOS
U+256B
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
dingbat
double line
frame
grid character
retro computing
table
terminal
text graphics
unicode