Music notes to copy and paste
Music symbols add rhythm to a bio, a playlist name or a caption about a gig. The most popular are the note symbols ♪ and ♫, which work almost everywhere because they've been part of computer character sets for decades.
What the symbols mean
- ♩ is a quarter note (a crotchet), and ♪ is an eighth note (a quaver).
- ♫ and ♬ are beamed pairs of notes, often used to mean "music is playing".
- ♯, ♭ and ♮ are sharp, flat and natural signs.
- 𝄞 and 𝄢 are the treble clef and bass clef.
- 🎵 🎶 🎧 🎸 are emoji and show in colour.
Ideas
♪ now playing: rainy day mix ♫ · 𝄞 piano student · 🎧 lo-fi & coffee
Notes also make nice dividers: ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♪ between sections of a bio or post.
A note about clefs
The clef symbols 𝄞 and 𝄢 come from Unicode's Musical Symbols block. Most modern phones and computers show them, but a few older devices may display a box instead. The simple notes ♪ ♫ ♬ are the safest choice if you need them to show everywhere.
Pair music symbols with aesthetic fonts for a playlist title, or browse stars and sparkles.
Music symbols in bios and captions
Music lovers, musicians and DJs often add a note or two to their profile: a ♪ before a playlist link, a 𝄞 next to "piano teacher", or 🎧 for a podcast. Notes also work as soft dividers between lines of a bio, or around a song title in a caption: ♫ now playing ♫.
Using sharps and flats correctly
When you write a key or chord, the real sharp ♯ and flat ♭ signs look neater than a hash # or a lowercase b: C♯ minor, B♭ major. They're also clearer to read, since # and b can be mistaken for other characters in some fonts.
Musical note symbols in text
These notes are plain text characters, so a musical note ASCII-style line like ♪ ♫ ♩ works in any post. If you are writing HTML, the same characters can also be pasted straight into the page.