Dark Shade
Part of Box Drawing Characters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 178 on the numeric keypad to insert dark shade.
- Alt code
- Alt+178
- HTML entity
- ▓
- Unicode
- U+2593
About this symbol
The dark shade, Alt+178, is the densest of the three shading characters of the IBM PC’s character set, between ▒ and the solid block █. Together they gave text screens four levels of grey.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- DARK SHADE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Block Elements
- Unicode group
- Shade characters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- 75%
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