Star (grapheme)

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In typography, a star is any of several graphemes with a number of points arrayed within an imaginary circle. A commonly used star symbol is the asterisk. The list below is arranged by number of points typically found on the star grapheme, but the character displayed may differ according which computer font is being used by the viewer's system. A type designer may specify a glyph for a particular grapheme that has a different number of points from that chosen by another designer for the same grapheme. For example, whether the asterisk grapheme has a five‑ or a six-point glyph depends on typeface. In this article, the characters displayed are representative glyphs, whose appearance is determined by the system font on the reader's computer operating systems and web browsers: a colleague using a different system may see slightly different forms. For the same reason, some glyphs may be shown on some systems in their emoji variant rather than their text form.

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