To create these characters yourself, hold "alt" down and type the numbers in on the right side of the

keyboard (num pad) then let go of the buttons and the character will appear. This is a great way to experiment with new symbols, signs and characters, and it's also good if a button or letter on your keyboard stops working, because you can still type it using the num pad. Just look down the list to find your letter. You may also be interested in a much smaller, but more rare list of special ascii characters for text art. Some of the symbols have been listed in bold to separate them clearly from their descriptions. 1. White Smiley 2. Black Smiley 3. Black heart 4. Diamond 5. Clove (Clover/Puppyfeet) 6. Spade 7. Black dot 8. Black square with circle cutout 9. White circle White circle 10. Black square with black circle 11. Male Symbo 12. Female Symbol 13. Quarter Note 14. Musical Double Quarter Note 15. Su 16. Play (Forward) or Solid right arrow 17. Rewind (Backward) or Solid left arrow 18. Up and down arrows 19. Double Exclamation Mark 20. Pilcrow (Paragraph Sign) 21. The section sign 22. Long and Thick Minus Sign 23. Up & down arrows 24. Up arrow 25. Down arrow 26. Right arro 27. Left arrow 28. 90 degree angle 29. Left and right arrow 30. Solid up arrow 31. Solid down arrow 32. Just a space

33. ! Exclamation mark (bang) 34. " Quote Quote 35. # Pound sign 36. $ Dollar sign 37. % Percentage sign 38. & "And" sign 39. ' Apostrophe Apostrophe 40. ( Left parenthesis 41. ) Right parenthesis 42. * Asterix/astrix (Or star) 43. + Plus sign 44. , Comma 45. - Minus Sign 46. . Period 47. / Forward slash 48. 0 0 49. 1 1 50. 2 2 51. 3 3 52. 4 4 53. 5 5 54. 6 6 55. 7 7 56. 8 8 57. 9 9 58. : Colon (colons) 59. ; Semicolon 60. < Left arrow (Big fish) Less than 61. = Equals sign Equals sign 62. > Right arrows (Small fish) Greater than 63. ? Question mark 64. @ At symbol 65. A 66. B 67. C 68. D 69. E 70. F 71. G 72. H 73. I 74. J 75. K 76. L 77. M 78. N

79. O 80. P 81. Q 82. R 83. S 84. T 85. U 86. V 87. W 88. X 89. Y 90. Z 91. [ 92. \ 93. ] 94. ^ 95. _ 96. ` A grave accent 97. a 98. b 99. c 100. d 101. e 102. f 103. g 104. h 105. i 106. j 107. k 108. l 109. m 110. n 111. o 112. p 113. q 114. r 115. s 116. t 117. u 118. v 119. w 120. x 121. y 122. z 123. { 124. |

125. 126. 127. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132. 133. 134. 135. 136. 137. 138. 139. 140. 141. 142. 143. 144. 145. 146. 147. 148. 149. 150. 151. 152. 153. 154. 155. 156. 157. 158. 159. 160. 161. 162. 163. 164. 165. 166. 167. 168. 169.

} ~ A house shaped pentagon A "C" with a cedilla A u with a umlaut (or diaeresis) over it Acute accent over e "a" with a circumflex over it An "a" with a umlaut (or diaeresis) over it An "a" with a grave accent over it An a with a circle or dot over it A "c" with a circumflex "e" with a circumflex on it An "e" with a umlaut (or diaeresis) over it An "e" with a grave accent over it An "i" with a umlaut (or diaeresis) over it An i with a circumflex over it An "i" with a grave accent An "A" with a umlaut (or diaeresis) over it A capitol "A" with a circle or dot over it (Angstrom) A capitol "E" with an acute accent over it The lower case vowel (grapheme) of the a and e squished together Capitol AE combined into one letter A "o" with a circumflex over it An "o" with a umlaut (or diaeresis) over it An "o" with a mark over it called a grave mark A u with a circumflex over it A u with a grave accent over it A "y" with a umlaut (or diaeresis) over it A "O" with a umlaut (or diaeresis) over it A "U" with a umlaut (or diaeresis) over it The "cents" or "cent" sign for currency The "pound sign" for currency The "Yen" sign for currency (Japanese/Chinese) Written in Japanese as Pts Points of Pints sign A curvy or italic F (italicized) An a with a acute accent An i with a acute accent An o with a acute accent A u with an acute accent over it A n with a tilde ~ over it to make the Spanish enye A capital n with a tilde ~ over it to make the Spanish enye The feminine superscript A The degrees or degree symbol Upside down question mark used in Spanish

170. 171. One half symbol 172. One quarter symbol O 173. An upside down exclamation mark (looks like an "i" that sits lower than usual) 174. Double arrow pointing left 175. Double arrow pointing right 176. Light shaded block 177. Medium shaded block 178. Dark shaded block 179. Line 180. Shape 181. Special Line 182. You can make words with these 183. Or shapes 184. Or Mazes! 185. 186. 187. 188. 189. 190. 191. 192. 193. 194. 195. 196. 197. 198. 199. 200. 201. 202. 203. 204. 205. 206. 207. 208. 209. 210. 211. 212. 213. 214.

215. 216. 217. 218. 219. 220. 221. 222. 223. 224. 225. 226. 227. 228. 229. 230. 231. 232. 233. 234. 235. 236. 237. 238. 239. 240. 241. 242. 243. 244. 245. 246. 247. 248. 249. 250. 251. 252. 253. 254. 255.

The Greek letter "Alpha" A German letter, Eszett, scharfes S, sharp S The symbol for the mathmatical Pi in ascii Greek mathmatical symbol for sum Symbol for sum Symbol for sum Mu Tau Phi a variation of Phi Theta, the 8th letter of Greek alphabet Omega (24th letter of Greek alphabet) The symbol for delta The symbol or character for infinity (Infiniti) Phi (21st letter of Greek alphabet) A backwards 3 or curved E - German Epsilon Upside down U Equal sign with 3 lines Plus and minus (Plus or minus) sign, Plus-minus Symbol Greater than or equal to symbol Less than or equal to sign Divide or Division Symbol Curvy or wavy equal sign = Degree or degrees code Medium height period Medium height period Dot higher than usual (A check mark) Superscript N Squared symbol, superscript 2 via ascii Black box or square (Yup, just a space via ascii)