Insert Common Technical Symbols on Mac

With Mac's Character Viewer, it's easy to insert common technical symbols into most any document or application.

• from the Keyboard Preferences pane, enable "Show Keyboard & Character viewers in menu bar"
• show the Character Viewer from the menu bar icon

• for each symbol below

  • search for the Hex code
  • select the character
  • from the right pane, click add to favorites

  ⌘ – ⌘ – the Command Key symbol

  ⌥ – ⌥ – the Option Key symbol

  ⇧ – ⇧ – the Shift Key symbol

  ⎋ – ⎋ – the ESC Key symbol

  ⇪ – ⇪ – the Capslock symbol

  ⏎ – ⏎ – the Return symbol

  ⌫ – ⌫ – the Delete / Backspace symbol

Now, to insert any of these

• open the Character Viewer from the menu bar
• go to your Favorites
• double click the character (it will show up in your current document/application)