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Music Note Symbols
Music symbols are the fastest way to say "this is about a song" in a bio, a playlist title or a status line.
All of these are text characters rather than emoji, so they take the colour of the text around them and never turn into a coloured blob. Single characters, safe in any font.
Eighth note
♪
Beamed notes
♫
Beamed sixteenth
♬
Quarter note
♩
Flat
♭
Natural
♮
Sharp
♯
Note pair
♪♫
Note run
♪ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪
Music divider
───── ♫ ─────
Singing face
♪(◕‿◕)♪
Dancing to music
♪ヽ(´▽`)ノ♪
Headphones
∩(•ᴥ•)∩
Now playing
▶ ♫
Paused
‖ ♫
Volume
▶ᴩᴩᴩ
Play bar
▶ ━━━━●─────
Equalizer
▂▄▆█▆▄▂
Music border
♪··♫··♪··♫··♪
Radio
((•)) ♫
Where these work
This page has 20 pieces: 20 single-line and 0 multi-line. The widest is 13 characters across.
Everything on this page is a single line, so there is nothing to align and nothing to break. These paste correctly into chat, bios, usernames, commit messages, spreadsheet cells and form fields alike.
Questions
Why does ♪ sometimes show as a coloured emoji?
A handful of platforms map the beamed note to an emoji font. If that happens, use the quarter note ♩ instead — it has no emoji twin.
Can I use these in a Spotify playlist name?
Yes, Spotify accepts Unicode in playlist titles and these render fine in the desktop and mobile apps.
Is there a way to write actual sheet music in text?
Not usefully. Unicode has individual note heads and clefs but no system for placing them on a stave, so anything past a decorative symbol needs a real notation tool.
Make your own
None of these say your name. The text to ASCII generator turns any word into a banner across 133 FIGlet fonts, and the image to ASCII converter turns a picture into text art in your browser. Both are free and neither uploads anything.