✏
Pencil Alt
- Unicode
- U+270F
- Category
- Dingbats
- HTML Entity
- ✏
- CSS
- \270F
Originating from the classic ITC Zapf Dingbats font, the ✏ symbol depicts a traditional wooden graphite pencil angled downwards to the right. It is widely used across digital typography, user interfaces, and social media to indicate editing, writing, or taking notes. While it exists as a standard text character, most modern platforms automatically render it as a colorful emoji.
How to Type
- Windows
- Alt+9999 or Win+. then search 'pencil'
- macOS
- Control+Command+Space then search 'pencil'
- HTML
- ✏
In Programming
Developers frequently use the pencil symbol in web and app interfaces as a universal, lightweight text icon for 'edit' or 'compose' buttons without needing external graphic libraries.
Tags
Zapf Dingbats
annotation
dingbat
draw
drawing
edit
edit symbol
graphite pencil
handwriting
note-taking
pencil
pencil emoji
school
sketch
sketching
stationery
text editor
write
writing icon