Stars & Sparkles
Decorative star and sparkle symbols you can copy with one tap. Great for dressing up usernames, titles and messages.
39 symbols
About
A single star does a lot of quiet work: it turns a plain username into ✛ Luna ✛, sets off a section heading, or marks the top item on a list. This set gathers the whole star family — the solid ★, the hollow ☆, and a spread of pointed and pinwheel variants like ✩ ✪ ✫ ✬ ✭ ✮ ✯ — so you can pick the exact weight you want. Every glyph is one tap to copy, and then it drops straight in wherever your cursor is sitting.
The three shapes you will reach for most are easy to tell apart. Filled ★ reads as bold and confident, which makes it great for a rating you have earned or a title that needs a little weight. Outline ☆ is the same silhouette left hollow, so it feels lighter and pairs naturally with ★ for an "earned versus empty" look. The four-pointed sparkles ✦ (solid) and ✧ (open) are narrower and more diamond-like; they read as a glint or a twinkle rather than a classic five-point star, which makes them lovely as little separators between words.
To build a rating row, just line up filled and outline stars in the ratio you need: ★★★★☆ says four out of five at a glance, and ★★★☆☆ says three. Because these are ordinary text characters, the row stays crisp at any font size and copies cleanly into a review, a spreadsheet cell, or a product caption — no image asset, no half-star plugin, and no broken layout when the page reflows on a smaller screen.
Unlike the colourful emoji star, every glyph here is plain monochrome Unicode text. That means it inherits the surrounding font colour and size, so ★ turns gold inside a gold heading and grey inside grey body text, and it survives the places that strip emoji out — plain-text usernames, IDE comments, CSV files, and older forums. The trade-off is that there is no built-in colour, but the payoff is that it renders consistently across Windows, macOS, Android and iOS.
If you would rather type them, ★ is Alt+9733 and ☆ is Alt+9734 on a Windows numeric keypad (Unicode U+2605 and U+2606), while the asterisk-like sparkles ✱ ✲ sit in Unicode's Dingbats block if you want a starburst look instead. Honestly, though, the fastest route is right here on this page: tap any star to copy it, and it lands on your clipboard ready to paste.
Frequently asked questions
- How do I type a star symbol?
- The quickest way is to tap any star on this page to copy it, then paste. On a Windows numeric keypad you can also hold Alt and type 9733 for ★ or 9734 for ☆; on Mac, paste is far easier than a keystroke.
- What is the difference between ★ and ☆?
- ★ is a solid, filled-in star and ☆ is the same shape left as a hollow outline. They share one silhouette, so people pair them for ratings — filled for the points scored, outline for the points left.
- Do star symbols work on Instagram?
- Yes. Because these are plain Unicode text and not emoji, ★ ☆ ✦ paste fine into your Instagram bio, captions, comments and display name. They show up monochrome, taking on the app's own text colour rather than a coloured emoji look.
- How do I make a 5-star rating with symbols?
- Type five filled stars for a full score — ★★★★★ — or mix filled and outline to show a partial score, like ★★★★☆ for four out of five or ★★★☆☆ for three. Just copy each star in the order you need.
- Are these stars emoji?
- No. They are monochrome Unicode text characters, so they inherit the surrounding font colour and size instead of rendering as a coloured picture. That is exactly why they work in usernames, code and spreadsheets where emoji often get stripped.
- What are ✦ and ✧?
- They are four-pointed sparkle stars: ✦ is the solid version and ✧ is the open outline. Their slimmer, diamond-like shape reads as a twinkle or glint, which makes them popular as decorative separators rather than as rating stars.