Aesthetic Dividers Copy and Paste

Tap a divider to copy it: 124 rules and scene breaks, plain to starry, all within 30 characters.

Aesthetic Dividers Copy and Paste

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124 dividers. Tap one to copy it.

One line 119

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

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How it works

Aesthetic dividers copy and paste best when they are short, so all 124 here stay within 30 characters and 119 are a single line. Nothing is generated: each was composed ahead of time from counted repeats.

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Seven groups, from plain to starry

The filters split the set: 21 Aesthetic, 17 Cute, 18 Floral, 18 Starry, 20 Scene breaks, 10 With a title and 33 Plain rules. All 17 cute dividers copy paste as one line of hearts, bows, beads or notes. Keyboard characters only marks the 39 that can be typed by hand.

Rows that Markdown reads as instructions

Most text dividers copy and paste as typed. A Markdown editor is the exception. Three or more hyphens, asterisks or underscores alone on a line become a horizontal line. Hyphens or equals signs directly under words turn those words into a heading, so leave an empty line above. A row of tildes opens a code block. Safe in Markdown marks the 100 that a CommonMark parser returned unchanged.

Tips
  • A centred rule, like Thick rule, diamond centre, resizes from both ends: add or delete equal strokes each side.
  • Type over a title such as ABOUT ME. Three titled dividers centre it with spaces and need a monospaced font.
  • Five dividers hold wide, two-column characters: three emoji rules, Low wavy line, Scalloped lace rule. Count double beside a text border.

Questions and answers

Can I set the length of a divider?

Not with a control: every divider is a fixed line. Sixty-two of the 124 are one short unit repeated, a single stroke or a pattern such as a florette and a dot. Delete whole units from the right and the pattern still ends cleanly.

Which scene break symbols copy and paste cleanly?

All 20 here, on one line. The classic is the dinkus: three spaced asterisks on their own line. The asterism packs them into one character; a fleuron such as the floral heart is decoration. Markdown makes the asterisk dinkus a horizontal line: use Three bullets.

Why does a divider break onto a second line?

The box is narrower than the divider. Length in characters is not length on screen: outside a monospaced font every character has a width of its own. Delete strokes until it fits, or take a scene break, 5 characters in most cases.

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All 124 dividers

One line 119

  • Angle bracket chain A chain of diamonds made from the less-than and greater-than signs. 1 line, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Arrow and heart divider A thin rule with a heart in the middle and a pair of angle quotation marks pointing in at each end. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Left-pointing double angle quotation mark (U+00AB), Right-pointing double angle quotation mark (U+00BB), Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), White heart suit (U+2661).
  • Asterisk rule A solid row of asterisks. A Markdown editor swaps it for a horizontal line, as it does a row of hyphens. 1 line, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Asterism Three asterisks in a triangle, in a single character. It was once set as a dinkus and is now rare, which is the reason to use it. 1 line, 1 wide. Borrows Asterism (U+2042).
  • Asterism on a short rule The asterism with four strokes of thin rule each side of it. 1 line, 11 wide. Borrows Asterism (U+2042), Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500).
  • Barbed wire rule Two hyphens and an x, nine times over, ending on hyphens. 1 line, 29 wide. Keyboard characters only.
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One line, continued

  • Black and white florettes Solid and outline florettes in turn with no gaps: a daisy chain. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Black florette (U+273F), White florette (U+2740).
  • Black and white hearts Filled and outline hearts in turn. The filled heart carries Unicode's Emoji property, so a screen may draw it in colour. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows White heart suit (U+2661), Black heart suit (U+2665).
  • Black and white star rule Solid and outline stars in turn, starting and ending on a solid one. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Black star (U+2605), White star (U+2606).
  • Black bar rule Twenty black rectangles, heavier than the thick line. 1 line, 20 wide. Borrows Black rectangle (U+25AC).
  • Bracketed title rule A title in square brackets in the middle of a double rule from the equals key. Type over ABOUT ME. 1 line, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Bullet rule Fourteen round bullets with a space between each. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows Bullet (U+2022).
  • Caret and v zigzag The zigzag with no backslash in it: a small v and a caret in turn. 1 line, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Checker square rule Solid and hollow squares in turn, starting and ending on a solid one. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Black square (U+25A0), White square (U+25A1).
  • Cherry blossom emoji rule Three cherry blossom emoji on a thin rule. An emoji is a wide character and counts as two columns in a fixed-width font. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Cherry blossom (U+1F338).
  • Colon rule Two rows of dots for the price of one. 1 line, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Colon title rule A title between two runs of colons. Type over LINKS and delete a colon from each side for every two letters you add. 1 line, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Diamond chain Solid and hollow diamonds in turn, starting and ending on a solid one. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Black diamond (U+25C6), White diamond (U+25C7).
  • Dinkus, three asterisks Three spaced asterisks, the row printers call a dinkus. Centre it on a line of its own between two scenes. A Markdown editor turns it into a horizontal line. 1 line, 5 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Dots and hearts rule Two middle dots, a heart, two middle dots, a heart. It begins and ends on dots. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows Middle dot (U+00B7), White heart suit (U+2661).
  • Dotted garland rule Full stop, colon, asterisk, tilde and back down, joined by an underscore: three swags of a garland. Markdown reads each pair of asterisks as emphasis and removes them. 1 line, 23 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Double line rule Two thin lines, one above the other, in a single row of text. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings double horizontal (U+2550).
  • Double rule with a diamond A double line broken once by a solid diamond. The formal one: it suits a title page or a set of rules. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows Box drawings double horizontal (U+2550), Black diamond (U+25C6).
  • Double wave rule The almost-equal sign, repeated: two ripples, one over the other. 1 line, 26 wide. Borrows Almost equal to (U+2248).
  • End mark, three hashes Press releases often set three hashes on a line of their own, directly above the boilerplate. In Markdown the line is an empty heading and shows as nothing. 1 line, 3 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Equals and hyphen rule Double and single bars in turn. It begins and ends on a double. 1 line, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Equals rule with gaps Seven short double bars. A Markdown heading underline cannot contain a space, so the gaps keep this one a plain rule wherever it lands. 1 line, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Equals sign double rule A double rule from the keyboard. In Markdown, directly under a line of words, it makes those words a top-level heading, so leave an empty line above it. 1 line, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Filling circles divider An empty circle fills a quarter at a time until it is solid, then empties again. 1 line, 17 wide. Borrows White circle (U+25CB), Black circle (U+25CF), Circle with right half black (U+25D1), Circle with upper right quadrant black (U+25D4), Circle with all but upper left quadrant black (U+25D5).
  • Fine dashed rule Four short dashes to every character: the finest dashed line among the box-drawing characters. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings light quadruple dash horizontal (U+2508).
  • Fleuron-end rule A thin rule between two fleurons, the leaf-shaped printers' flowers. The left one is the reversed form of the right, so the leaves point outwards at both ends. 1 line, 26 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Reversed rotated floral heart bullet (U+2619), Rotated floral heart bullet (U+2767).
  • Floral heart, alone One floral heart on a line of its own. A fleuron is the usual choice when a break is there for looks as much as for sense. 1 line, 1 wide. Borrows Floral heart (U+2766).
  • Florette and dot rule Seven six-petalled florettes with a middle dot between each. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Middle dot (U+00B7), Six petalled black and white florette (U+273E).
  • Florettes on a thin line Four black florettes joined by thin rules of eight strokes. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Black florette (U+273F).
  • Flourish-end rule A thin rule between the left and right rerenggan of the Javanese script, a matched pair of flourishes. 1 line, 24 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Javanese left rerenggan (U+A9C1), Javanese right rerenggan (U+A9C2).
  • Flower and tendril ends A dashed rule with a curl and an outline florette at each end. 1 line, 26 wide. Borrows Precedes under relation (U+22B0), Succeeds under relation (U+22B1), Box drawings light triple dash horizontal (U+2504), White florette (U+2740).
  • Four-point star rule Solid and outline four-pointed stars in turn. Neither carries the Emoji property, which the sparkles emoji does. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Black four pointed star (U+2726), White four pointed star (U+2727).
  • Full stop dotted rule A row of full stops, like the leader dots in a table of contents. 1 line, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Hash mark section break A single hash centred on a line of its own marks a section break in a science fiction manuscript sent to a publisher. In Markdown a lone hash is an empty heading and shows as nothing. 1 line, 1 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Hash rule The heaviest rule on the keyboard. Markdown headings stop at six hashes, so a run this long stays as typed. 1 line, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Heart bow divider A fine dashed rule with a bow round a heart in the middle. The two loops of the bow are Oriya digits, a two on the left and a one on the right. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Oriya digit one (U+0B67), Oriya digit two (U+0B68), Box drawings light quadruple dash horizontal (U+2508), White heart suit (U+2661).
  • Heart title rule A title in the middle of a thin rule with an outline heart at each end. Type over THANK YOU. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), White heart suit (U+2661).
  • Hearts on a thin line Three outline hearts threaded on a thin rule, a line either side of each. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), White heart suit (U+2661).
  • Heavy dashed rule The two-dash line at heavy weight. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings heavy double dash horizontal (U+254D).
  • Herb sprig emoji rule A thin rule with a herb sprig emoji at each end. 1 line, 24 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Herb (U+1F33F).
  • Hyphen and dot rule Dash, dot, dash, dot. It begins and ends on a dash. 1 line, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Hyphen rule The plainest rule there is. A Markdown editor turns it into a real horizontal line, and directly under a line of words it turns those words into a heading. 1 line, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Keyboard bubble rule Small o, big O, small o and a full stop, six times: bubbles from the letter keys. 1 line, 25 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Keyboard heart rule The heart you can type anywhere: a less-than sign and a 3, nine times. 1 line, 26 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Keyboard ornament break Small o, big O, small o between two hyphens. 1 line, 5 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Keyboard rosette rule Three rosettes on a hyphen rule, each an at sign between braces. 1 line, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Keyboard stars on a wire Six asterisks strung on hyphens. Markdown reads a pair of asterisks as emphasis and removes them, so this one is for plain text boxes. 1 line, 30 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Keyboard vine rule Tilde, apostrophe, tilde, comma: a creeper with a leaf up and a leaf down in turn. Some Markdown dialects strike out whatever sits between two tildes, so this one is for plain text boxes. 1 line, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Long and short dash rule Two hyphens, a gap, one hyphen, a gap: the centre line of a road. Markdown sees nothing but hyphens and spaces and turns it into a horizontal line. 1 line, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Low wavy line A wavy line that runs along the bottom of the row. Each character is a wide one and takes two columns in a fixed-width font, so thirteen of them fill 26. 1 line, 13 wide. Borrows Wavy low line (U+FE4F).
  • Middle dot rule Dots at mid height and not on the baseline: finer than a row of full stops. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Middle dot (U+00B7).
  • Moon and star break A small star held between two crescent moons: a break for a night scene. 1 line, 5 wide. Borrows Star operator (U+22C6), First quarter moon (U+263D), Last quarter moon (U+263E).
  • Moon to moon rule A crescent moon at each end, curved round a thin rule like a pair of brackets, and a small star halfway. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows Star operator (U+22C6), Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), First quarter moon (U+263D), Last quarter moon (U+263E).
  • Music note divider Quarter note, eighth note, beamed eighths, beamed sixteenths, three times and one more. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Quarter note (U+2669), Eighth note (U+266A), Beamed eighth notes (U+266B), Beamed sixteenth notes (U+266C).
  • Old-web arrow divider Hyphens between two pairs of angle quotation marks, with a currency sign for a stud in the middle. Every character is in Latin-1, the first 256 of Unicode. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows Currency sign (U+00A4), Left-pointing double angle quotation mark (U+00AB), Right-pointing double angle quotation mark (U+00BB).
  • Old-web wave divider Cedilla, comma, o with a stroke, currency sign, ordinal, degree sign, up to a backtick and back down, twice. It holds two backticks, and Markdown sets whatever lies between a pair of those as code. 1 line, 26 wide. Borrows Currency sign (U+00A4), Degree sign (U+00B0), Cedilla (U+00B8), Masculine ordinal indicator (U+00BA), Latin small letter o with stroke (U+00F8).
  • Overline rule A line along the top of the row, where the underscore draws one along the bottom. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Overline (U+203E).
  • Railway track rule Two rails and a sleeper in every character: a double line crossed by a single upright. 1 line, 24 wide. Borrows Box drawings vertical single and horizontal double (U+256A).
  • Rule with a floral heart A thin rule that parts for a floral heart, the ivy-leaf ornament also called a hedera or an aldus leaf. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Floral heart (U+2766).
  • Scalloped lace rule Two Yi radicals in turn that read as a scalloped lace edge. Both are wide characters and take two columns each in a fixed-width font. 1 line, 14 wide. Borrows Yi radical gguo (U+A4A6), Yi radical jjie (U+A4B7).
  • Scene break with a caption Three bullets each side of a caption, for a scene break that also says how much time has passed. Type over THREE DAYS LATER. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Bullet (U+2022).
  • Shade fade divider Light, medium and dark shade, two of each, into a solid bar and out again. Add full blocks in the middle to lengthen it. 1 line, 26 wide. Borrows Full block (U+2588), Light shade (U+2591), Medium shade (U+2592), Dark shade (U+2593).
  • Short rule with a star Two strokes of thin rule each side of a four-pointed star. Short enough to centre on a phone. 1 line, 7 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Black four pointed star (U+2726).
  • Sine wave rule The sine wave sign, repeated. Each character is one full wave, so the crests stay evenly spaced. 1 line, 24 wide. Borrows Sine wave (U+223F).
  • Slanted tile rule Solid and hollow parallelograms in turn, all leaning the same way. 1 line, 24 wide. Borrows Black parallelogram (U+25B0), White parallelogram (U+25B1).
  • Small-star cluster ends A thin rule that ends each way in two small stars round a raised and a lowered plus sign. 1 line, 26 wide. Borrows Superscript plus sign (U+207A), Subscript plus sign (U+208A), Star operator (U+22C6), Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500).
  • Snowflake rule Two snowflake dingbats in turn, a tight three-leaved one and a heavy chevron one. Neither carries Unicode's Emoji property. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Tight trifoliate snowflake (U+2745), Heavy chevron snowflake (U+2746).
  • Spaced asterisk rule Asterisks with air between them, full width. Markdown turns this one into a horizontal line as well. 1 line, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Spaced heart rule Fourteen outline hearts with a space between each. The outline heart does not carry Unicode's Emoji property; the filled one does. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows White heart suit (U+2661).
  • Spaced hyphen rule A dashed line from the hyphen key. Markdown reads three or more spaced hyphens as a horizontal line too. 1 line, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Spaced tilde rule The ripple with air in it. The spaces also stop Markdown reading it as the start of a code block. 1 line, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Sparkle and heart ends A thin rule that ends each way in a heart, a small cross, a ring and a subscript plus sign. 1 line, 26 wide. Borrows Ring above (U+02DA), Subscript plus sign (U+208A), Hermitian conjugate matrix (U+22B9), Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), White heart suit (U+2661).
  • Sparkle trail, mirrored A trail of four-pointed stars, dots and asterisks that runs in to a short rule and out again in mirror image. It holds asterisks, so Markdown may remove them. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), White four pointed star (U+2727), Halfwidth katakana middle dot (U+FF65), Halfwidth katakana semi-voiced sound mark (U+FF9F).
  • Sparkles emoji rule A thin rule with the sparkles emoji at each end. It is a wide character and counts as two columns in a fixed-width font. 1 line, 24 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Sparkles (U+2728).
  • Star swell rule A small star, an outline four-pointed star, a solid one and a full five-pointed star, then back down, twice. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Star operator (U+22C6), Black star (U+2605), Black four pointed star (U+2726), White four pointed star (U+2727).
  • Stardust rule A ring high up, a small star in the middle and a small circle low down, four times and one more ring. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Ring above (U+02DA), Star operator (U+22C6), Halfwidth ideographic full stop (U+FF61).
  • Starred title rule A title in the middle of a heavy rule with a solid star at each end. Type over NEW POST. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings heavy horizontal (U+2501), Black star (U+2605).
  • Stars that gain points Stars of six, eight, eight, twelve and sixteen points, up and back down. The second eight-pointed star is the heavy one. 1 line, 17 wide. Borrows Six pointed black star (U+2736), Eight pointed rectilinear black star (U+2737), Heavy eight pointed rectilinear black star (U+2738), Twelve pointed black star (U+2739), Sixteen pointed asterisk (U+273A).
  • Stemmed flower rule Four flowers on stems, joined by runs of five fine dashes. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Box drawings light quadruple dash horizontal (U+2508), Flower (U+2698).
  • String of beads rule Fourteen beads on a thread, made of the letter o and the hyphen. 1 line, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Swelling dot rule Middle dot, bullet, black circle, bullet: a dot that swells and shrinks three times. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Middle dot (U+00B7), Bullet (U+2022), Black circle (U+25CF).
  • Table-edge rule A plus sign every seven columns, like the top edge of a plain-text table. 1 line, 29 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Teardrop blossom rule Two teardrop-spoked asterisks in turn, one with a solid centre and one with an open centre. At text size they read as blossoms. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Teardrop-spoked asterisk (U+273B), Open centre teardrop-spoked asterisk (U+273C).
  • Tendril rule, star centre A thin rule with a curl at each end and a four-pointed star between two small dots in the middle. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows Precedes under relation (U+22B0), Succeeds under relation (U+22B1), Dot operator (U+22C5), Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Black four pointed star (U+2726).
  • Thick ends, thin middle Heavy at both ends and light in the middle. Two joining characters, each half heavy and half light, make the change of weight without a gap. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Box drawings heavy horizontal (U+2501), Box drawings light left and heavy right (U+257C), Box drawings heavy left and light right (U+257E).
  • Thick line rule The same unbroken line at heavy weight. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings heavy horizontal (U+2501).
  • Thick rule with star ends A heavy rule with a solid star at each end and no gaps. 1 line, 26 wide. Borrows Box drawings heavy horizontal (U+2501), Black star (U+2605).
  • Thick rule, diamond centre A heavy rule that parts in the middle for a four-diamond mark with a small ring each side. Add or delete heavy strokes at both ends, the same number each, to resize it. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows Box drawings heavy horizontal (U+2501), White bullet (U+25E6), Black diamond minus white x (U+2756).
  • Thin line rule One unbroken thin line. Box-drawing characters are made to meet end to end, where a row of hyphens leaves gaps. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500).
  • Thin rule with a title A title in the middle of a thin rule, on one line. Type over CHAPTER TWO and add or delete strokes to keep the two sides equal. 1 line, 29 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500).
  • Thin rule with end stops A thin line with a short upright at each end, like a dimension line on a drawing. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Box drawings light vertical and right (U+251C), Box drawings light vertical and left (U+2524).
  • Thin rule, flower centre A thin rule that parts in the middle for one eight-petalled florette. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Eight petalled outlined black florette (U+2741).
  • Thin rule, star centre A thin rule that parts in the middle for one solid star. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Black star (U+2605).
  • Three bullets Three round bullets with a space between each: the dinkus with nothing in it for Markdown to act on. 1 line, 5 wide. Borrows Bullet (U+2022).
  • Three diamonds Solid, hollow, solid. A break with sharper corners than asterisks. 1 line, 5 wide. Borrows Black diamond (U+25C6), White diamond (U+25C7).
  • Three fleurons A floral heart between a reversed and a plain rotated one, so the outer leaves point away from the middle. 1 line, 5 wide. Borrows Reversed rotated floral heart bullet (U+2619), Floral heart (U+2766), Rotated floral heart bullet (U+2767).
  • Three flower marks The flower punctuation mark, three times with a space between each. 1 line, 5 wide. Borrows Flower punctuation mark (U+2055).
  • Three four-point stars Three solid four-pointed stars. A dinkus for a story with magic in it. 1 line, 5 wide. Borrows Black four pointed star (U+2726).
  • Three middle dots Three dots at mid height. The quietest break here, for a pause and not a change of scene. 1 line, 5 wide. Borrows Middle dot (U+00B7).
  • Three outline hearts Three outline hearts with a space between each, for a break in a love story. 1 line, 5 wide. Borrows White heart suit (U+2661).
  • Three spaced full stops Three full stops with a space between each. It can be typed on any keyboard and no editor changes it. 1 line, 5 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Three spaced tildes Three tildes with a space between each. The spaces matter: three tildes closed up start a code block in Markdown. 1 line, 5 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Tibetan bracket rule A thin rule with a double-line tip, closed at each end by one of a pair of Tibetan marks that Unicode classes as an opening and a closing bracket. 1 line, 24 wide. Borrows Tibetan mark gug rtags gyon (U+0F3A), Tibetan mark gug rtags gyas (U+0F3B), Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Box drawings double horizontal (U+2550).
  • Tilde and asterisk break One asterisk between two tildes, all from the keyboard. Some Markdown dialects strike out whatever sits between two tildes. 1 line, 3 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Tilde and star garland Tildes and asterisks in turn. Markdown reads a pair of asterisks as emphasis and removes them, so this one is for plain text boxes. 1 line, 27 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Tilde wave rule A soft ripple. In Markdown three or more tildes at the start of a line open a code block that runs to the end of the text, so use the spaced one there. 1 line, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Triangle shard rule A lower-right triangle and an upper-left triangle in turn, twelve pairs: slanted shards with a sliver of light down the middle of each pair. 1 line, 24 wide. Borrows Black lower right triangle (U+25E2), Black upper left triangle (U+25E4).
  • Two-peak bar divider The eight block heights climbed and descended twice, so it starts, dips and ends on the lowest bar. 1 line, 29 wide. Borrows Lower one eighth block (U+2581), Lower one quarter block (U+2582), Lower three eighths block (U+2583), Lower half block (U+2584), Lower five eighths block (U+2585), Lower three quarters block (U+2586), Lower seven eighths block (U+2587), Full block (U+2588).
  • Underscore rule A line along the bottom of the row, like one to sign on. Three or more underscores alone on a line become a horizontal line in Markdown. 1 line, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Vai flower divider A fine dashed rule round a four-petalled mark. The mark is a letter, the Vai syllable zha, borrowed for its shape. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Box drawings light quadruple dash horizontal (U+2508), Vai syllable zha (U+A565).
  • White florette rule Fourteen outline florettes with a space between each. 1 line, 27 wide. Borrows White florette (U+2740).
  • Wide dashed rule Two dashes to every character, so the strokes are longer and the gaps wider. 1 line, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings light double dash horizontal (U+254C).
  • Winged heart divider A heart with wings in the middle of a thin rule. The wings are two phonetic letters, a closed open e and its mirror image. 1 line, 25 wide. Borrows Latin small letter closed reversed open e (U+025E), Latin small letter closed open e (U+029A), Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), White heart suit (U+2661).
  • Zigzag rule Fourteen peaks from the two slash keys. Markdown removes thirteen of the fourteen backslashes; the last one stays, or turns into a line break when another line follows. 1 line, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.

Small, 2 to 4 lines 5

  • Thick over thin rule Two lines of text: a heavy rule with a light one under it. Swap the lines for light over heavy. 2 lines, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Box drawings heavy horizontal (U+2501).
  • Title between double lines Three lines: a centred title between two unbroken double lines. Type over PART TWO and re-centre it with spaces. 3 lines, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings double horizontal (U+2550).
  • Title between two rules Three lines: a double rule from the equals key above and below a centred title. Type over CHAPTER ONE and re-centre it with spaces. Markdown reads the bottom rule as a heading underline and merges all three lines. 3 lines, 28 wide. Keyboard characters only.
  • Title, thick and thin rule Three lines: a heavy rule, a title, a light rule. Type over WEEKLY NOTES and re-centre it with spaces. 3 lines, 28 wide. Borrows Box drawings light horizontal (U+2500), Box drawings heavy horizontal (U+2501).
  • Underlined heading Two lines: a heading with one equals sign under each character. A Markdown editor turns the pair into a real top-level heading, and hyphens in place of the equals signs give the next level down. 2 lines, 19 wide. Keyboard characters only.

How this list was compiled: Every piece was drawn for this page and checked in a monospaced font on 2026-09-19; none is copied from an archive or another site. The set runs from rules anyone can type to rules built from box-drawing characters, dingbats and a few letters borrowed from other scripts, in seven groups: aesthetic, cute, floral, starry, scene breaks, rules with a title in them, and plain. Each was composed from counted repeats, so the two halves of a centred rule are the same length. The page holds rules and breaks only and leaves pictures to its sibling pages. Each character was looked up in the Unicode Character Database, version 18.0.0: names and categories in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, width classes in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/EastAsianWidth.txt, the Emoji property in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt, all read on 2026-09-19. Keyboard characters only means the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Safe in Markdown means a CommonMark parser (markdown-it-py 4.0.0, commonmark preset, run on 2026-09-19) returned the divider as plain text both on a line of its own and directly under a line of words. Only one-line dividers can carry it, and any with a tilde touching another character is left out, because one widely used dialect strikes out text between a pair of tildes (section 6.5 of https://github.github.com/gfm/, version 0.29-gfm, read on 2026-09-19). The same parser run is behind every note that says what Markdown does to a divider; the rules themselves, for thematic breaks, heading underlines, hash headings, code fences and emphasis, were read in https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/ on 2026-09-19. Apps with a Markdown dialect of their own may differ. The notes on the dinkus, the asterism, fleurons, scene breaks and the hash mark were checked on 2026-09-19 against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(typography), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleuron_(typography), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_(typography) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign. x.unit, where present, is the smallest run of characters that repeats to make the divider. Licence: own work