Black nib

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Shortcode
:black_nib:
Unicode
U+2712
HTML
✒
CSS
\2712
JavaScript
"\u{2712}"
URL
%E2%9C%92%EF%B8%8F

blacknibpen

What ✒️ means

The metal tip of a dip pen. It stands for writing with ink, calligraphy and formal or literary writing.

Writers and poets use it for their work and new pieces. It also marks signing a contract or an official letter, and calligraphy and lettering posts. It has a classic, literary tone.

Facts

Black nib ✒️ is an emoji in the objects category, under writing. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :black_nib:. People also look for it with words like “black”, “nib”, or “pen”.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. black nib, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. black nib, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. black nib, Google (Noto) design from 20212021

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. black nib, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. black nib, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

objects · Unicode 6.0