Star Symbols

The stars here come from three different parts of Unicode: two plain stars from Miscellaneous Symbols, a run of decorative variants from Dingbats, and one emoji. They look like a family but they are encoded as unrelated characters. This collection holds 13 star symbols drawn from 2 Unicode blocks — mainly Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols. Code points run from U+2605 to U+2730. All of them sit in the Basic Multilingual Plane, which means broad font support and very few encoding surprises.

Filled and hollow

★ (U+2605) and ☆ (U+2606) are the two general-purpose stars, and the pair most likely to render consistently because they have been in Unicode since the earliest versions and appear in almost every font.

The dingbat variants

✦ ✧ ✩ through ✰ are Dingbats, digitised from a commercial symbol typeface. Font coverage for this range is good but not universal, and the exact shape varies more between fonts than the two plain stars do.

Ratings need care

Star characters are often used to fake a rating display. If the stars carry meaning, that meaning is invisible to anyone using a screen reader, which will read them as symbol names or skip them. Put the rating in text as well.

Unicode blocks in this collection

Sample characters and their code points