# Is there a symbol for the microsoft Windows Key? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 4, 2011, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-symbol-for-the-microsoft-windows-key/591472 "2011-08-04T15:38:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-symbol-for-the-microsoft-windows-key/591472/21 "2013-03-01T13:16:05Z")
> [@chorpler](#): > > Wha…? All of my Windows 7 machines have the Character Map application listed in the Start Menu, under Accessories –\> System Tools. I use it all the time. Well, it isn’t there on mine. Mind you, even if it were I would still regard it as fairly effectively hidden away. I would not know to go there looking for it. ---
**Author:** ![the\_O](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@the\_O](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_O)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-symbol-for-the-microsoft-windows-key/591472/22 "2013-03-01T16:23:37Z")
I don’t know if you’re aware of it, but there are keyboard fonts (such as [http://www.fontspace.com/byte-sized-computing/keyboard/3896.charmap](http://www.fontspace.com/byte-sized-computing/keyboard/3896.charmap),) but I don’t know if any of them has a Windows key. ---
**Author:** ![ThomasThePro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@ThomasThePro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThomasThePro)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-symbol-for-the-microsoft-windows-key/591472/23 "2017-09-12T03:52:49Z")
**Hmmm…_This could help you… ⊞❖_** ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-symbol-for-the-microsoft-windows-key/591472/24 "2017-09-12T16:18:02Z")
In case anyone still cares about this thread, that would not help anyone in the OP’s position. He or she needed a specific glyph, not an abstract character (even if there were a ‘Microsoft’ character defined in, say, Unicode), and the correct solution given was to pull it out of an existing font or official logo. In general-purpose documentation (such as for Emacs), I have seen various modifier keys referred to generically as ‘Shift,’ ‘Control,’ ‘Alt,’ ‘Super,’ ‘Meta,’ ‘Escape,’ ‘Hyper’, and similar, even though their existence and labelling (except classics like ‘Shift’) varies between different brands of keyboard, and are also completely remappable. (Ie, it usually makes little sense to refer to the ‘Windows’ key, when on a different keyboard it may just be a little rhombus, or not be available at all.) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-symbol-for-the-microsoft-windows-key/591472/26 "2018-11-20T12:56:53Z")
Reported. ---
**Author:** ![smjg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@smjg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smjg)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-symbol-for-the-microsoft-windows-key/591472/27 "2022-07-05T15:20:03Z")
I’m on Windows 10. I see that Wingdings still has the Windows 3.1-9x logo, and Marlett has the Windows XP-7 logo. Is the Windows 8-10 logo in any font anywhere? And I see that Windows 11 has a new logo again… ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-symbol-for-the-microsoft-windows-key/591472/28 "2022-07-05T15:28:58Z")
If you go to “Windows 10” on Wikipedia there is a Windows 10 logo in svg format. You can then crop the “window” icon. > **[File:Windows 10 Logo.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_10_Logo.svg)** > > Original file ‎(SVG file, nominally 476 × 88 pixels, file size: 2 KB) > Windows logo - 1985-1989 > Windows logo - 1990-1992 > Windows about logo - 1990-1992 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-symbol-for-the-microsoft-windows-key/591472/29 "2022-07-05T21:27:07Z")
Unicode has the SQUARED PLUS symbol, which is pretty close to the new logo: ⊞ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-symbol-for-the-microsoft-windows-key/591472.md?page=1)