LinkedIn arrows
181 arrows that survive LinkedIn's composer, because each one is a character rather than formatting. Click an arrow to copy it, paste it into a post, a headline, or a comment, and it shows on every device. Search by a plain word like "right", "curved", or "double" when you know what you want.
Quick picks
Recently copied
Right 54
Left 23
Up 17
Down 16
Diagonal 18
Two-way 19
Curved and special 35
Where an arrow earns its place
An arrow does one job well: it shows that one thing led to another. Three shapes of post use it honestly. The before and after, where the arrow sits between the two states: “14 demos a month → 41, same team”. The cause and effect, where it replaces “which meant that”: “We stopped cold outreach → the sales team started answering inbound within the hour”. And the sequence, one arrow per step, where each line is a thing you did rather than a heading.
The test is whether the arrow could be replaced by a word. If “led to”, “then”, or “became” fits, the arrow is doing work. If nothing fits, it is a bullet point wearing a costume, and the bullet points page has better ones.
One arrow per post
Pick one arrow and use it everywhere in the post. Mixing a heavy pointer on one line with a thin arrow on the next reads as indecision, and it is the first thing a reader notices before the words. The plain rightwards arrow suits a post that is mostly text; the heavier pointer (➤) suits a post that is mostly a list; the diagonal (↗) belongs next to a number that went up, and nowhere else.
Headlines follow a stricter rule: one arrow at most, as a separator, and the same words you would write without it. Someone searching for your role searches the words, and the arrow between them is invisible to search either way.
Questions
- How do I add an arrow to a LinkedIn post?
- Click the arrow above and it is on your clipboard; paste it into the post, the headline, a comment, or a message. LinkedIn keeps it because an arrow is an ordinary character, the same as a letter, not formatting that the composer strips. Search the box by a plain word, like "right", "curved", or "double", to find a particular one.
- Which arrow works best in a LinkedIn headline?
- A plain one. The rightwards arrow (→) and the vertical bar (|) are the two separators that read cleanly at headline size on every device, as in "Head of Sales → now building the thing I wished existed". Keep the words either side of it plain text: LinkedIn search matches words, and the arrow is not one.
- Do arrows count against the character limit?
- Yes, one character each, against the same 3,000-character post limit as everything else. A dozen arrows in a post cost you a dozen characters, which is nothing; what they cost is attention, and that runs out sooner.
- Do arrows look the same on phones and desktops?
- The common ones do: → ← ↑ ↓ ⇒ ➜ ➤ ↗ and the triangles are in every system font. The rarer shapes, such as the feathered and shadowed arrows near the end of the Right group, depend on the font a device has, and an older phone can show a box instead. Use the plain ones for anything the reader has to understand, and the decorative ones only where a missing glyph would not matter.
- How do I type an arrow with the keyboard?
- On Windows, hold Alt and type on the number pad: Alt+26 gives →, Alt+27 gives ←, Alt+24 gives ↑, and Alt+25 gives ↓. A Mac has no built-in arrow shortcut; open the character viewer with Control+Command+Space and search "arrow", or copy from this page. Phones have no arrow key at all, which is the reason this page exists.
- What does an arrow sound like to a screen reader?
- Its name, every time: "rightwards arrow", "heavy round-tipped rightwards arrow". One arrow marking a step or a result is fine. A row of five in front of every line is read out five times per line, so keep arrows to the places where they carry meaning.
- Is it free, and does it store anything?
- Free, with no account and no watermark, like every tool on this site. The page runs in your browser; nothing you copy goes anywhere but your clipboard. It remembers your recently copied arrows in your browser so they are one click away next time.
Next
LinkedIn Bullet Points
Paste your lines and get a finished list in the bullet you choose, or copy any of over 200 bullet characters on their own.
LinkedIn Symbols
Stars, checks, hearts, math, currency, punctuation, and the legal marks, one click to copy, searchable by name.
LinkedIn Text Formatter
Bold, italic, and list formatting that survives the LinkedIn composer, which strips almost everything you paste into it.
Make LinkedIn your
best-performing channel.
Brief your team once. It studies, plans, writes, designs, and schedules. You approve.
Your brief comes with you: once you're set up, it's the team's first job.
7 days free · Strategy in your first 15 minutes · Cancel anytime