Box Drawings Light Down And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Down And Left
U+250C U+2500 U+2510┌ ─ ┐Text sequence · decimal ┌ ─ ┐
Text Border Symbols Copy & Paste
Copy complete text borders, multiline Unicode frames, corner sets and decorative boxes. Replace the sample word and test alignment in your final font.
Copy text border symbols
54 characters and sequences. Select any entry to copy the text behind it.
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Text Border Symbols with Unicode names and HTML codes
12 of the 54 entries, shown with their full detail. Read the name before the shape. Each row also carries the hexadecimal and decimal HTML reference for the exact sequence.
Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Left
U+2570 U+2500 U+256F╰ ─ ╯Text sequence · decimal ╰ ─ ╯
Text sequence (10 characters)
U+250C U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2510┌ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┐Text sequence · decimal ┌ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┐
Text sequence (10 characters)
U+256D U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+256E╭ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ╮Text sequence · decimal ╭ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ╮
Text sequence (10 characters)
U+2515 U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+2519┕ ━ ━ ━ ━ ━ ━ ━ ━ ┙Text sequence · decimal ┕ ━ ━ ━ ━ ━ ━ ━ ━ ┙
Text sequence (10 characters)
U+2553 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2556╓ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ╖Text sequence · decimal ╓ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ╖
Text sequence (8 characters)
U+2599 U+2584 U+2584 U+2584 U+2584 U+2584 U+2584 U+259F▙ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▟Text sequence · decimal ▙ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ▟
Text sequence (32 characters)
U+250C U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2510 U+000A U+2502 U+0020 U+0020 U+0074 U+0065 U+0078 U+0074 U+0020 U+0020 U+2502 U+000A U+2514 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+2518┌ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┐ 
 │     t e x t     │ 
 └ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┘Text sequence · decimal ┌ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┐ │     t e x t     │ └ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ┘
Text sequence (36 characters)
U+256D U+2500 U+0020 U+22C6 U+22C5 U+2606 U+22C5 U+22C6 U+0020 U+2500 U+256E U+000A U+2502 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+0074 U+0065 U+0078 U+0074 U+0020 U+0020 U+0020 U+2502 U+000A U+2570 U+2500 U+0020 U+22C6 U+22C5 U+2606 U+22C5 U+22C6 U+0020 U+2500 U+256F╭ ─   ⋆ ⋅ ☆ ⋅ ⋆   ─ ╮ 
 │       t e x t       │ 
 ╰ ─   ⋆ ⋅ ☆ ⋅ ⋆   ─ ╯Text sequence · decimal ╭ ─   ⋆ ⋅ ☆ ⋅ ⋆   ─ ╮ │       t e x t       │ ╰ ─   ⋆ ⋅ ☆ ⋅ ⋆   ─ ╯
Text sequence (35 characters)
U+256D U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+0020 U+2740 U+0020 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+256E U+000A U+2502 U+0020 U+0020 U+0067 U+0061 U+0072 U+0064 U+0065 U+006E U+0020 U+2502 U+000A U+2570 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+0020 U+2740 U+0020 U+2500 U+2500 U+2500 U+256F╭ ─ ─ ─   ❀   ─ ─ ─ ╮ 
 │     g a r d e n   │ 
 ╰ ─ ─ ─   ❀   ─ ─ ─ ╯Text sequence · decimal ╭ ─ ─ ─   ❀   ─ ─ ─ ╮ │     g a r d e n   │ ╰ ─ ─ ─   ❀   ─ ─ ─ ╯
Text sequence (35 characters)
U+250F U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+263E U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+2513 U+000A U+2503 U+0020 U+0020 U+006E U+0069 U+0067 U+0068 U+0074 U+0020 U+0020 U+2503 U+000A U+2517 U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+263D U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+2501 U+251B┏ ━ ━ ━ ━ ☾ ━ ━ ━ ━ ┓ 
 ┃     n i g h t     ┃ 
 ┗ ━ ━ ━ ━ ☽ ━ ━ ━ ━ ┛Text sequence · decimal ┏ ━ ━ ━ ━ ☾ ━ ━ ━ ━ ┓ ┃     n i g h t     ┃ ┗ ━ ━ ━ ━ ☽ ━ ━ ━ ━ ┛
Box Drawings Up Double And Right Single + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Up Double And Left Single
U+2559 U+2500 U+255C╙ ─ ╜Text sequence · decimal ╙ ─ ╜
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Complete text frames, paired edges and border pieces
Text borders combine box-drawing characters into frames for notes, headings and terminal-friendly designs.
Use the multiline templates for ready-made frames and the smaller pieces when constructing your own. Alignment depends on a monospaced font, preserved whitespace and a destination that does not trim line endings. Stored on this page are 54 entries, split 0 single characters to 54 sequences.
You will meet Box Drawings Light Down And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Down And Left, Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Left, Text sequence (10 characters), Text sequence (10 characters) among these. Measured over the full set, the leading name patterns are Box Drawings Light (310), Space (138), Box Drawings Double (114). Single-character values span multi-character sequences only.
Browse text border symbols by type
Complete multiline frames
16 entries
Complete top and bottom edges
24 entries
Corners and construction pieces
14 entries
What this inventory contains
The range these text border symbols occupy
The span runs multi-character sequences only. By Unicode general category that is sequence-only entries.
How the official names cluster
Box Drawings Light (310), Space (138), Box Drawings Double (114) lead the name frequencies — measured, not assumed.
Joiners, selectors and length
Of the sequences, 0 rely on a zero-width joiner and 0 on a variation selector; 64 code points is the longest single entry.
Which one should you use
Watch out for Box Drawings Light Down And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Down And Left next to Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Left. They are different characters: U+250C U+2500 U+2510 and U+2570 U+2500 U+256F. Complete top and bottom edges is the safe default at 24 entries.
Leave corners and construction pieces unless nothing else fits. Always check it in the place it will appear.
Grouping is by purpose. A single group can mix letters, symbols and punctuation as Unicode defines them.
54Text sequence
A composition, not a single character. 100% here.
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Text Border Symbols explained in plain English
Short summary
This page has 54 text border symbols to copy. The largest set is complete top and bottom edges, with 24. Their home in Unicode is the Box Drawing block.
Sorted into 3 kinds
Complete top and bottom edges is the biggest at 24. The rest split between complete top and bottom edges and corners and construction pieces.
Encoding, and why coverage varies
They come from Box Drawing (548), Basic Latin (242) and Block Elements (44). Across multi-character sequences only, support gets patchy at the newer end.
Easy to confuse
Compare Box Drawings Light Down And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Down And Left with Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Left. Same shape, different code point.
54 entries are sequences
Half-copying breaks 54 of these. Take the whole value.
Key words and ideas
Useful terms when searching or describing text border symbols.
- Complete multiline frames
- Complete top and bottom edges
- Corners and construction pieces
- Border
- Frame
- Box
- Text
- Art
- Drawings
- Light
- Down
- Right
A simple three-step method
- Sorted into 3 kinds: Complete top and bottom edges is the biggest at 24. The rest split between complete top and bottom edges and corners and construction pieces.
- Encoding, and why coverage varies: They come from Box Drawing (548), Basic Latin (242) and Block Elements (44). Across multi-character sequences only, support gets patchy at the newer end.
- Easy to confuse: Compare Box Drawings Light Down And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Down And Left with Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Left. Same shape, different code point.
- 54 entries are sequences: Half-copying breaks 54 of these. Take the whole value.
What the text border symbols inventory actually contains
Every figure below is counted from the 54 entries stored for this page rather than estimated. The characters are drawn from Box Drawing (548), Basic Latin (242) and Block Elements (44).
| Group | Entries | Examples | Code points | Usual presentation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complete multiline frames | 16 | ┌────────┐ │ text │ └────────┘ ╔════════╗ ║ text ║ ╚════════╝ ╭────────╮ │ text │ ╰────────╯ | sequence | Text presentation |
| Complete top and bottom edges | 24 | ┌────────┐ └────────┘ ╔════════╗ | sequence | Text presentation |
| Corners and construction pieces | 14 | ┌─┐ └─┘ ╔═╗ | sequence | Text presentation |
Practical note: Presentation is the typical default. A variation selector, a specific font stack, or an application that overrides emoji rendering can change what you see after pasting.
Read further
Compare these choices with corner symbols and line symbols. For a deeper explanation, read Text Dividers and Borders That Stay Readable. For a quick answer first, see why do text borders and box-drawing symbols misalign?.
Tip: A symbol should decorate a label, not replace it — plain words keep the meaning available to search and to assistive technology.
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How to use text border symbols
Selecting an entry places its exact code points on your clipboard. Paste with Ctrl V, ⌘ V, or the Paste command on mobile.
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Profile sections and social captions
Reach for Box Drawings Light Down And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Down And Left, and never let it replace a word that matters.
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Text dividers, borders and frames
When handling text dividers, borders and frames, the 24 complete top and bottom edges entries are the obvious pool, and let visual weight settle the final choice.
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Aesthetic names and short announcements
When creating aesthetic names and short announcements, paste the complete entry — several of these are multi-code-point sequences that break if truncated.
Copy-ready text border symbols examples for profile sections and social captions
Profile sections and social captions
┌─┐ Text Border referenceText dividers, borders and frames
┌─┐ └─┘ ╔═╗Aesthetic names and short announcements
╔═╗ text border ┌─┐06
How text border symbols render across fonts, apps and devices
Most of these live in one place: Box Drawing holds 66% of them. The rest come from Basic Latin and Block Elements. These are all plain text.
Style them like any other letter. 54 are built from more than one character. Copy the whole thing, or it breaks apart.
What travels is the character; what you see is whatever font the destination reaches for. That is why the same text border symbol can look heavier on a phone than in a document.
0Single characters
54Sequences
0Emoji properties
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Common mistakes with text border symbols
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Building a frame in a proportional font.
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Assuming social apps preserve repeated spaces.
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Copying only one edge when a complete reusable frame is needed.
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Text Border Symbols questions and answers
What is the difference between Box Drawings Light Down And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Down And Left and Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Left?+
They are two distinct Unicode characters: Box Drawings Light Down And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Down And Left is U+250C U+2500 U+2510 (HTML ┌ ─ ┐) and Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Left is U+2570 U+2500 U+256F (HTML ╰ ─ ╯). A font may draw them almost identically, but they sort and search as separate values.
What is the HTML code for box drawings light down and right + box drawings light horizontal + box drawings light down and left?+
┌ ─ ┐ is the hexadecimal form and ┌ ─ ┐ the decimal one; both render as ┌─┐. On a page that declares UTF-8 you can also just paste the character.
Do these text border symbols change colour with my text?+
Yes. None of the 54 entries on this page carry emoji properties, so each one inherits the colour, weight and size of the text around it, exactly like a letter does.
Why does one of these text border symbols split apart when I paste it?+
54 entries here are sequences of more than one code point. If the destination does not support the sequence, or if the copy was truncated, the parts render individually. Copy the entry with the button rather than by selecting the characters.
Which Unicode block are these text border symbols in?+
The answer is Box Drawing, covering 548 of them; the rest come from Basic Latin and Block Elements. That matters because a font either supports a block broadly or barely at all.
Which text border symbol should I choose?+
Watch out for <b>Box Drawings Light Down And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Down And Left</b> next to <b>Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Right + Box Drawings Light Horizontal + Box Drawings Light Arc Up And Left</b>. They are different characters: U+250C U+2500 U+2510 and U+2570 U+2500 U+256F. <b>Complete top and bottom edges</b> is the safe default at <b>24</b> entries. Leave corners and construction pieces unless nothing else fits. Always check it in the place it will appear.
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Learn more about text border symbols
Where to take text border symbols next
Borders and dividers are usually framing a heading, so the converters that produce that heading are the natural pairing.
Cursive Text ConverterCreate script-style Unicode text while keeping a plain-text version for names, search and accessibility.Open the text converter →Old English Text ConverterBuild Fraktur-style text from Unicode mathematical letters and learn where fallback characters are used.Open the text converter →
Composing a finished design from these is what the Symbol Maker is for. The Unicode tools hub compares all seven and says when each is the right choice.
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Sources for these figures
Nothing here is estimated: the 54 entries are counted directly. The Unicode 17.0 character database supplies every formal name and category here, and the emoji data files decide which entries carry emoji properties.
- Unicode Character Database — UnicodeData.txt (formal names and general categories)
- Unicode emoji-test.txt (fully-qualified emoji sequences and grouping)
- The Unicode Standard, current version
- How CoolSymbol.now sources, counts and tests this data