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typography
Typography is the art and technique of Typesetting, arranging type to make written language legibility, legible, readability, readable and beauty, appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, Point (typogra ...
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glyph
A glyph ( ) is any kind of purposeful mark. In typography, a glyph is "the specific shape, design, or representation of a character". It is a particular graphical representation, in a particular typeface, of an element of written language. A ...
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asterisk
The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , , "little star", is a Typography, typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star (heraldry), heraldic star.
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Four points
Five points
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Mullet (heraldry)
In heraldry, the term star may refer to any star-shaped charge with any number of rays, which may appear straight or wavy, and may or may not be pierced. While there has been much confusion between the two due to their similar shape, a star with ...
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Pentagram
A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon. Drawing a circle around ...
Six points
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Seal of Solomon
The Seal of Solomon or Ring of Solomon (, '; , ') is the legendary Seal (emblem), signet ring attributed to king Solomon in medieval mystical traditions, from which it developed in parallel within Jewish mysticism, Sufism, Islamic mysticism and ...
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Hexagram
, can be seen as a compound polygon, compound composed of an upwards (blue here) and downwards (pink) facing equilateral triangle, with their intersection as a regular hexagon (in green).
A hexagram (Greek language, Greek) or sexagram (Latin l ...
Seven points
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Commonwealth Star
The Commonwealth Star (also known as the Federation Star, the Seven Point Star, or the Star of Federation) is a seven-pointed star symbolising the Federation of Australia which came into force on 1 January 1901, originally as a six-pointed star ...
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Heptagram
A heptagram, septagram, septegram or septogram is a seven-point star polygon, star drawn with seven straight strokes.
The name ''heptagram'' combines a numeral prefix, ''hepta-'', with the Greek language, Greek suffix ''wikt:-gram, -gram ...
Eight points
Nine points
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Enneagram
Enneagram may refer to:
* Enneagram (geometry), a nine-sided star polygon with various configurations
* Enneagram of Personality, a model of human personality illustrated by an enneagram figure
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In geometry, a nonagon () or ...
Ten points
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Decagram Decagram may refer to:
* 10 gram, or 0.01 kilogram, a unit of mass, in SI referred to as a ''dag''
* Decagram (geometry)
In geometry, a decagram is a 10-point star polygon. There is one regular decagram, containing the vertices of a regular dec ...
Eleven points
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Hendecagram
In geometry, a hendecagram (also endecagram or endekagram) is a star polygon that has eleven Vertex (geometry), vertices.
The name ''hendecagram'' combines a Greek numeral prefix, ''wikt:hendeca-, hendeca-'', with the Greek language, Greek suffix ...
Twelve points
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Blue Sky with a White Sun
The Blue Sky with a White Sun ( zh , t = 青天白日 , p = Qīngtiān Báirì ) is the national emblem of the Taiwan, Republic of China, both during its history in Republic of China (1912–1949), mainland China and on History of Taiwan (1945–p ...
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Thirteen points
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Tridecagram
Fourteen points
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Tetradecagram
Fifteen points
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Pentadecagram
Sixteen points
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Hexadecagram
Multiple stars
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Asterisk
The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , , "little star", is a Typography, typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a star (heraldry), heraldic star.
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Asterism (typography)
In typography, an asterism, , is a typographic symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle, which is used for a variety of purposes. The name originates from the astronomy, astronomical term for a Asterism (astronomy), group of stars ...
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Unicode symbols
In computing, a Unicode symbol is a Unicode character which is not part of a script used to write a natural language, but is nonetheless available for use as part of a text.
Many of the symbols are drawn from existing character sets or ISO/ IEC or ...
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Star polygon
In geometry, a star polygon is a type of non-convex polygon. Regular star polygons have been studied in depth; while star polygons in general appear not to have been formally defined, Decagram (geometry)#Related figures, certain notable ones can ...
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Polygons
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure made up of line segments connected to form a closed polygonal chain.
The segments of a closed polygonal chain are called its '' edges'' or ''sides''. The points where two edges meet are the polygon' ...
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Star symbols
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