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typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing ( leading), an ...
, a star is any of several
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 g ...
s with a number of points arrayed within an imaginary circle.
Four points
Five points
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Mullet (heraldry)
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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 aro ...
Six points
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Seal of Solomon
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Hexagram
, can be seen as a 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) is a six-pointed ...
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.
Six points of the Star represent ...
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Heptagram
Eight points
Nine points
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Enneagram
Ten points
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Decagram Decagram may refer to:
* 10 gram, or 0.01 kilogram
The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), having the unit symbol kg. It is a widely used measure in science, engineering and commerce world ...
Eleven points
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Hendecagram
In geometry, a hendecagram (also endecagram or endekagram) is a star polygon that has eleven vertices.
The name ''hendecagram'' combines a Greek numeral prefix, '' hendeca-'', with the Greek suffix ''-gram''. The ''hendeca-'' prefix derives f ...
Twelve points
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Blue Sky with a White Sun
The Blue Sky with a White Sun () serves as the design for the party flag and emblem of the Kuomintang, the canton of the flag of the Republic of China, the national emblem of the Republic of China, and as the naval jack of the ROC Navy.
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Thirteen points
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Tridecagram
Fourteen points
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Tetradecagram
In geometry, a tetradecagon or tetrakaidecagon or 14-gon is a fourteen-sided polygon.
Regular tetradecagon
A ''regular polygon, regular tetradecagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can be constructed as a quasiregular Truncation (geometry), truncate ...
Fifteen points
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Pentadecagram
In geometry, a pentadecagon or pentakaidecagon or 15-gon is a fifteen-sided polygon.
Regular pentadecagon
A ''regular polygon, regular pentadecagon'' is represented by Schläfli symbol .
A Regular polygon, regular pentadecagon has interior angl ...
Sixteen points
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Hexadecagram
In mathematics, a hexadecagon (sometimes called a hexakaidecagon or 16-gon) is a sixteen-sided polygon.
Regular hexadecagon
A ''regular hexadecagon'' is a hexadecagon in which all angles are equal and all sides are congruent. Its Schläfli symbo ...
Multiple stars
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Asterisk
The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , ''asteriskos'', "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.
Computer scientists and mathematicians often vo ...
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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 astronomical term for a group of stars.From the Greek ''astēr'' ...
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Unicode symbols
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Solar symbols#Modern pictogram
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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, certain notable ones can arise through truncation operation ...
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Polygons
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Star symbols
Typographical symbols