╻
Box Drawing 124
- Unicode
- U+257B
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╻
- CSS
- \257B
The ╻ symbol, formally known as the Box Drawing Heavy Down and Light Up character, is part of the Unicode Box Drawing block originally used in legacy computing. It was designed to help developers build text-based user interfaces, borders, and grids in environments like MS-DOS where standard graphics weren't available. Today, it remains a staple for formatting command-line interfaces, creating intricate terminal art, and adding a retro aesthetic to plain text documents.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9595
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing heavy down"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 257b
- HTML
- ╻
In Programming
Developers use this character in text-based user interfaces (TUIs) and command-line applications to draw complex borders and grid structures. It is especially useful for creating seamless visual transitions between heavy and light vertical lines in terminal output.
Tags
CLI
U+257B
ascii art
border
box drawing
command line
dingbat
line segment
mixed weight line
plain text
retro terminal
table
terminal UI
text graphics
unicode