Tool to find symbols of the Symbol font, especially used on Microsoft Windows, and containing, for example, the letters of the Greek alphabet.
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Tag(s) : Symbol Substitution
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Symbol Font
List of all Symbols Ciphers
This page deals with the Symbol font. For a list of all ciphers using symbols/characters, see the dedicated page:
Symbol Font Decoder
Symbol Font Encoder
Answers to Questions (FAQ)
What is the Symbol font? (Definition)
The font named Symbol is used on the Microsoft Windows operating system, it contains in particular the letters of the Greek alphabet, used as symbols in physics, mathematics and more generally in science. Today supplanted by the possibilities of Unicode coding, this font is no longer recommended.
How to write using Symbol font?
The writing / encryption is based on the Symbol font, each character is associated with a glyph/symbol (which gives the name to the font).
Letters are written using greek symbols:
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Example: dCode corresponds to
The characters are partially similar to the original message because the Symbol font uses, among other things, Greek letters having inspired the Latin alphabet.
How to read / decrypt a Symbol cipher?
The reading / decryption of the Symbol font consists in associating each glyph/symbol the corresponding character in the ASCII table.
Example: is decrypted SYMBOL.
How to recognize the Symbol font?
The Symbol font uses Greek characters (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, etc.) in uppercase and lowercase letters. The writing also contains some characters used in mathematics.
Symbol is originally associated with Apple and its LaserWriter printer, but adoption has been popularized by Microsoft who has incorporated it (Symbol.ttf) by default into its Windows operating systems.
How to use a symbol in a document?
If the Symbol Font font is not installed, copy the desired symbol(s) from this page and paste them into the document.
Source code
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