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Work · May 16, 2022

Special Characters Chrome Add-on

Copy and Insert Special Characters with a single click

Special Characters Chrome Add-on launched on May 16, 2022 with 6 votes, #1,101 of 2,942 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

Unicode Characters browser. Insert Emoji icons, Math symbols, Latin characters, Greek characters, Arrows, Braille script. Insert Extended Keyboard Characters. ✱ Search from around 150K characters ✱ More than 300 categories ✱ Insert new custom icons

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