# LinkedIn Symbols Canonical page: https://depost.ai/tools/linkedin-symbols 306 special characters that paste into LinkedIn and stay there: stars, checks and crosses, hearts, math and currency signs, punctuation, the legal marks, and shapes. Click one to copy it. Search by a plain word when you know what you need, and the ones you copied recently stay at the top. Free to use, with no account needed. ## How to use it 1. Search by a plain word, like "star", "check", or "euro", or filter by category. 2. Click a symbol to copy it. The ones you copied recently stay at the top. ## Questions people ask ### How do I use special characters on LinkedIn? Click a symbol above to copy it and paste it wherever LinkedIn accepts text: a post, a comment, the headline, the About section, a message. Symbols survive because each one is a character in its own right, the same as a letter, not formatting that the composer removes. Search the box by a plain word, like "star", "check", "euro", or "copyright". ### What do the symbols next to a name on LinkedIn mean? Those are LinkedIn's own marks, not characters anyone typed. The green frame around a photo is the #OpenToWork setting and the purple one is #Hiring; the small gold "in" badge marks a Premium subscriber; the gray shield or check marks a verified profile; and "1st", "2nd", and "3rd" show how closely you are connected. None of them can be pasted, and a character that imitates one reads as exactly that. ### Is there a LinkedIn logo symbol I can copy? No. The "in" mark is a trademarked image and there is no Unicode character for it, so any "LinkedIn symbol" a website offers is a look-alike from another script. On a resume, write the word LinkedIn followed by the link, which every scanner and every reader understands; on the profile itself, the logo is already there. ### How should I use the trademark and copyright symbols? The registered mark (®) is for names registered with a trademark office; using it on an unregistered name is a misstatement in most countries. The trademark symbol (™) claims a mark without registration and is safe to use on a product name you treat as a brand. The copyright symbol (©) goes with a year and the owner's name. In a LinkedIn post none of them are required, and a post with a ™ on every mention of the product reads as an advertisement. ### Do symbols hurt reach or search? There is no published data on reach either way, and a few symbols used as markers make a long post easier to scan. Search is the clearer cost: LinkedIn matches words, and a symbol is not one, so keep the terms you want to be found by as plain text, above all in the headline. ### Do symbols show the same on every device? The common ones (★ ✓ ✔ → • | © ® ™ € £ ≠ ∞) are in every system font and look the same everywhere. Rarer shapes and the block characters depend on the font a device has installed, and an older phone can show a box. Use the common ones for anything the reader has to understand. ### What does a symbol sound like to a screen reader? Its name: "black star", "heavy check mark", "vertical line". A separator in a headline is read once and is fine. Decorative rows of stars are read star by star, which is why the useful symbols are the ones that mean something in the sentence. ### Is it free, and does it store anything? Free, no account, no watermark. The page runs in your browser and nothing you copy is sent anywhere. Your recently copied symbols are remembered in your browser so they are one click away next time. ## More free tools - [Every free tool for LinkedIn and X](https://depost.ai/tools) --- Cite as Depost AI (https://depost.ai/tools/linkedin-symbols). Index of every page: https://depost.ai/llms.txt. Full reference: https://depost.ai/llms-full.txt.