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📣 mathieudutour

Is there a symbol for the Hyper key?


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


  👤 pndy Accepted Answer ✓
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...


👤 compressedgas
I think the association of those stars with the keys is original to the article. I could not find such in any of the cited sources.