Does Illustrator have shape primitives for the Symbols as Photoshop does?

[Swandive stream]

For example diamond shape, moon, heart, etc. Default symbols sets are more complex. Things to speed up the workflow by saving having to make basic stuff.

Custom shapes in Photoshop

[Monika Gause]

Illustrator has some basic shapes (see the shape tools). But most of those it doesn't have. You can make some using effects. Others are easily constructed. Then build your own shape library.

[Jacob Bugge]

Fastertrack,

You could create them yourself (just once, customized to your liking/need, then use them many times), or choose from out there,

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=vector+shape+sets&atb=v1-1&ia=web

and then make symbols.

Edit: Hi Monika.

[barbara_a]

The closest thing that Illustrator has, aside from the basic shapes already mentioned, is the Symbols panel. You can choose various sets of Symbols from the Symbols panel menu.

[Michael Bullo]

You can easily copy any shapes you find in Photoshop and paste them into Illustrator.

[Swandive stream]

Wouldn't they be rastors?

[Michael Bullo]

When you draw a shape in Photoshop, look at the Mode drop down menu in the upper left corner of the Options bar with options for...

• Shape
• Path
• Pixels

[Mike_Gondek]

Only if you had the shaep tool set to raster. You will get vector shapes with other 2 options, of which you can copy with hollow arow tool and paste into Illustrator, and make your own symbol set.