Ask HN: Is there a symbol for the Hyper key?

Posted by mathieudutour on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:05AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I was wondering if there is a well-known symbol for the Hyper key? I found used on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard but can't find why it was picked

Edit: Seems like HN doesn't want to render the symbol. I meant to display "BLACK FOUR POINTED STAR" U+2726

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a symbol for the Hyper key? by compressedgas on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:39AM (#34365319)

I think the association of those stars with the keys is original to the article.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a symbol for the Hyper key? by Someone on Friday January 13, 2023 @04:19AM (#34365571)

According to Wikipedia, Sun has used the black diamond "◆" for meta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_key)

That article has a photo showing it on a keyboard, but I wouldn’t know whether that was a meta key

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a symbol for the Hyper key? by pndy on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:54AM (#34365421)

This is the first edit that introduced the "Hyper" button with icon in the article; no comments were provided why it was a black four pointed star in particular. The author added just "(...) + icon". Perhaps it was an arbitrary choice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space-cadet_keybo...

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