Light Shade
Part of Box Drawing Characters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 176 on the numeric keypad to insert light shade.
- Alt code
- Alt+176
- HTML entity
- ░
- Unicode
- U+2591
About this symbol
The light shade, Alt+176, is one of three shading characters, ░ ▒ ▓, in the IBM PC’s character set, code page 437. DOS programs used them for the backgrounds of menus and windows, and artists used them for ANSI art, pictures made entirely of text on the bulletin board systems of the 1980s and 1990s.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- LIGHT SHADE
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Block Elements
- Unicode group
- Shade characters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Unicode notes
- 25%
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Box Drawing Characters chart for related characters.