Tap a star and it lands on your clipboard. Tap a few more and they stack up in the box below, so you can paste the whole set in one go.
A random patch of night sky, made from text. Shuffle until you like it.
They're ordinary characters, not pictures. Unicode gives every star its own code point, so any phone, laptop or website that knows the character can draw it.
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Resize them, recolour them, bold them, just like the words around them.
The designs go back to the late 1970s, when Hermann Zapf drew over a thousand ornaments called Zapf Dingbats. If you remember Wingdings from the ’90s, you've met their cousins.
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Anywhere text goes, a star can tag along. These are the spots people reach for them most.
// ★ TODO: review before mergef ⋆ g = convolutiona ∗ bIf you only remember a handful, make it these. Tap any to copy.
Takes the colour of the text around it, so it blends in anywhere.
Fixed colours, drawn by your device's emoji font. They look a little different on iPhone, Android and Windows.
Don't want to come back here every time? Pick the shortcut that matches your setup.
Opens the emoji and symbol panel. Type “star” to filter.
Opens the character viewer. Search “star”, then double-click the one you want.
9733 → ★ · 9734 → ☆Hold Alt, type the digits on the numeric keypad, then let go. Needs a full keyboard with Num Lock on.
2605 then Alt + XType the hex code, press the shortcut, and Word swaps it for ★ on the spot.
★content: "\2605";"\u2605"The emoji keyboard has ⭐ ✨ 🌟 but not the plain text stars. Search “star” there for emojis.
For ★ ☆ ✦ and friends, copy them from the tool above.