╂
Box Drawing 67
- Unicode
- U+2542
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ╂
- CSS
- \2542
The ╂ (Box Drawing Heavy Vertical and Light Horizontal) symbol is a legacy character used to create grid intersections in text-based interfaces. Originating from early computing environments before the advent of modern graphical user interfaces, it allows developers to draw complex tables and UI borders directly within a terminal screen. Today, it is primarily used in retro ASCII art, command-line applications, and text-based layouts to format tabular data.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9538
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search "box drawing"
- Linux
- Ctrl+Shift+U then 2542
- HTML
- ╂
In Programming
In software development, this character is frequently used to construct terminal user interfaces (TUIs) and print neatly formatted, human-readable data tables directly to the command-line console.
Tags
ASCII art
MS-DOS
TUI
border
box drawing
command-line
cross
dingbat
grid cross
heavy vertical
intersection
light horizontal
retro computing
table
terminal UI
text-based interface
unicode box drawing