Is there a font that includes the "refresh screen" icon?

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October 23, 2023
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I need to show users what the refresh icon looks like. Is there a font that I can use to type it into a sentence?

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Robert at ID-Tasker

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Why can't you use it in the text as an InLine graphics?

Steve Werner

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There is two unicode glyphs which I think are what you want (see these two charts):

You can use the Glyphs panel to search by Unicode value

Here are some of the fonts which contain it: Apple Symbols, Arial Unicode MS, Cambria, Cambria Math, Lucida Sans Unicode, and many more.

If you have access to Creative Pro Magazine, you can view an article I wrote about how to find glyphs in fonts:

How to Find the Font That Has the Glyph You Need

James Gifford—NitroPress

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Most browsers use that as the "reload page" icon... which isn't quite the same thing. But it's probably what the OP is looking for.

Steve Werner

Community Expert

If you do a Google search on "refresh screen icon", this is what you can see:

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

I'm not really aware of any universal 'refresh screen' icon. What platform and/or app are you referencing, here?

You might look at Symbola, which has more Unicode glyphs than any other single font I know. You could also do a screen capture of the icon (with your screen zoomed as much as possible), tune it up in Photoshop, and use it as a graphic icon rather than a font glyph.

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