I have always wanted to be able to type the ⌘ symbol for various reasons, including writing tutorials, but I have not know how to access it through my keyboard. A few, general, related notes:
- There is a nice wright up including some history on the Command Key, ⌘ on wikipedia.
- How Apple Keyboards Lost a Logo and Windows PCs Gained One
- PopChar is an application which helps users find obscure characters.
This functionality is built in to OS X with Character Viewer, though it is likely that PopChar extends the user experience in some way.
PopChar is a utility for helping users find the Characters they are looking for
OS X Character Viewer
Shift Key in Character Viewer
- This discussion on the Apple Forums talks about a way to put these symbols in Pages’ auto correction so that Pages will auto correct a set of characters typed to the symbol desired. I have seen this used in MS Word too.
- A table of Unicode characters corresponding to Macintosh keyboard symbols, as they commonly appear in menus.
- Special Key Symbols
- Apple Keyboard Symbols
- Multi-stroke Key Bindings
- Keystroke mapping explained by SIL’s NRSI.
The Next two Links are more detailed but like the above.
Marginally relevant:
It is unicode point 2318 (the html hex code is ⌘ ) and so you can find it in the character palette under:
- Code Tables>Unicode>2300>2318
- All Characters>Symbols>Technical Symbols
or you can go into
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Apple ⌘ symbol
On OS X, if you switch your keyboard to Unicode Hex Input, then holding down opt allows you to type the four digits for a unicode symbol and get the ⌘ (2318).
The Alt/Option Symbol has also been elusive. It can be fount at Unicode point 2325. U+2325.
Alt Key U+2325
Unicode and Hex Keyboard symbols
⌘ – ⌘ – ⌘ – the Command Key symbol
⌥ – ⌥ – ⌥ – the Option Key symbol
⇧ – ⇧ – ⇧ – the Shift Key (really just an outline up-arrow, not Mac-specific)
⇥ – ⇥ – ⇥ – the Tab Key symbol
⏎ – ⏎ – ⏎ – the Return Key symbol
⌫ – ⌫ – ⌫ – the Delete Key symbol