ASCII Hand Gun

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The ASCII American Flag

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ASCII Using ALT Plus Number

 It's cool and all, being able to use these ASCII characters, but often, I'm asked, is there an easier way to make them? Well, look no further. I'm including a few below:

1. Alt and 1 makes ☺
2. Alt and 2 makes ☻
3. Alt and 3 makes ♥
4. Alt and 4 makes ♦
5. Alt and 5 makes ♣
6. Alt and 6 makes ♠
7. Alt and 7 makes •
8. Alt and 8 makes ◘
9. Alt and 9 makes ♂
10. Alt and 1 and 2 makes ♀
11. Alt and 1 and 3 makes ♪
12. Alt and 1 and 4 makes ♫
13. Alt and 1 and 5 makes ☼
14. Alt and 1 and 6 makes ►
15. Alt and 1 and 7 makes ◄
16. Alt and 1 and 8 makes ↕
17. Alt and 1 and 9 makes ‼
18. Alt and 2 and 0 makes ¶

And for all else:

A Designer's Guide to HTML Symbol Entities

Use these ASCII characters for Twitter, Facebook. MySpace, and more ... ٩(̾●̮̮̃̾•̃̾)۶ __̴ı̴̴̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡̡̡ ̡͌l̡*̡̡ ̴̡ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡|̲̲̲͡͡͡ ̲▫̲͡ ̲̲̲͡͡π̲̲͡͡ ̲̲͡▫̲̲͡͡ ̲|̡̡̡ ̡ ̴̡ı̴̡̡ ̡͌l̡̡̡̡.

SIDEWAYS BLOCK CHARACTER FONTS

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Spotted at Google Video, where it ’s a hack used to draw attention to labels. Gorden at DIGG wondered what else can be spelled with this, and if it works with Google web search result titles too...

Well, it doesn't bring anything up on a search, but I went a step farther and created a sideways alphabet and numbers with the characters. Simply copy the set to wordpad and use them as pronounced font in messages or for Facebook comments.

Just highlight all of the characters between the (((start))) and ((( finish))), then copy and paste to wordpad. OK - so you've noticed that the letters have separations - - they don't show after you change the font size to 12 - - I also used the Arial font set.

ASCII Dollar Bills

Gimme five: [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅5)̲̅$̲̅]

Ten spot: [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅1̲̅0)̲̅$̲̅]

Easy twenty: [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅20)̲̅$̲̅]

The "C" note: [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅1̲̅00)̲̅$̲̅]

The big "K": [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅1̲̅000)̲̅$̲̅]