Heart fonts copy and paste are heart symbols and heart-decorated text that you copy into a bio, caption, message or note. There are two kinds: heart symbols such as ♡ ♥ ❤ and 💖, which are single characters, and text styles such as 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 that you wrap or break up with hearts. Both are Unicode, so neither is a real font.
The heart is the most copied symbol of all, and it comes in more variants than most people notice. This guide shows each one with its code point, explains why the same heart can look black and white on one app and red on another, and gives heart-themed text patterns you can adapt.
Heart symbols (text style)
These come from Unicode’s Miscellaneous Symbols and Dingbats blocks. They are drawn in the text colour of the app, so they take on whatever colour your text has. Select one, copy it and paste it in.
| Symbol | Code point | Official name |
|---|---|---|
| ♡ | U+2661 | white heart suit |
| ♥ | U+2665 | black heart suit |
| ❤ | U+2764 | heavy black heart |
| ❣ | U+2763 | heavy heart exclamation mark ornament |
| ❥ | U+2765 | rotated heavy black heart bullet |
| ❦ | U+2766 | floral heart |
| ❧ | U+2767 | rotated floral heart bullet |
| ☙ | U+2619 | reversed rotated floral heart bullet |
The ❦ floral heart, ❧ rotated floral heart bullet and ☙ reversed rotated floral heart bullet are ornaments that suit bookish and vintage text. ♡ is the outline version that people usually pick for a light, soft look, and ♥ is the solid one.
Heart emoji (colour style)
Emoji hearts display in colour and are drawn by the platform’s emoji font. They are also the most likely to look different on each phone, because Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft each draw their own versions.
| Emoji | Code point | Name |
|---|---|---|
| ❤️ | U+2764 U+FE0F | red heart (heavy black heart + variation selector-16) |
| 🧡 | U+1F9E1 | orange heart |
| 💛 | U+1F49B | yellow heart |
| 💚 | U+1F49A | green heart |
| 💙 | U+1F499 | blue heart |
| 💜 | U+1F49C | purple heart |
| 🖤 | U+1F5A4 | black heart |
| 🤍 | U+1F90D | white heart |
| 🤎 | U+1F90E | brown heart |
| 🩷 | U+1FA77 | pink heart |
| 🩵 | U+1FA75 | light blue heart |
| 🩶 | U+1FA76 | grey heart |
| 💕 | U+1F495 | two hearts |
| 💖 | U+1F496 | sparkling heart |
| 💗 | U+1F497 | growing heart |
| 💝 | U+1F49D | heart with ribbon |
The red heart is the one with a catch. U+2764 alone is the plain text heart ❤. To get the red emoji version, the code adds U+FE0F, a variation selector that asks for emoji presentation. Pasting ❤️ from an emoji keyboard includes it, and pasting ❤ from a symbol table may not. That is why a heart can turn red when you paste it in one place and stay black in another. The pink, light blue and grey hearts are newer, added in Unicode 15 (2022), so they can appear as boxes on older devices.
A heart that is not a heart
Many text-art pages offer ღ as a heart-like mark. It is actually the Georgian letter ghan (U+10E6). It looks like a ribbon-heart in many fonts, but screen readers announce it as a Georgian letter, and some fonts draw it differently. If you use it, do it knowingly and keep it out of anything that people must be able to read or search.
Heart-themed text patterns
You can use hearts with styled letters. Here are patterns built from the same word, each with its own use.
| Pattern | Example | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Heart on each side | ♡ 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓨𝓸𝓾 ♡ | Bios, captions, couple names |
| Hearts between letters | L♡O♡V♡E | A single word, such as a nickname or status |
| Name pair | 𝓐𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓪 ♥ 𝓓𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓮𝓵 | Anniversaries, wedding posts, profile bios |
| Circled letters and a heart | Ⓑⓔ Ⓜⓘⓝⓔ ❤ | Valentine messages |
| Full-width with heart | ｏｎｌｙ ｙｏｕ ♡ | Retro, soft, minimal bios |
| Floral heart frame | ❦ 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 ❦ | Thank-you notes, letters, wedding invitations |
| Heart bullet list | ♡ first item ♡ second item ♡ third item |
Wishlists, checklists, planners |
For more on the styled letters themselves, our cursive font copy and paste guide covers script alphabets, and cute font copy and paste covers bubble styles.
Heart ideas by occasion
- Valentine’s Day and anniversaries: a name pair with one ♥ between, as in the table above, works better than a long chain of hearts.
- Thank-you and sympathy notes: choose ❦ or ♡ rather than a bright emoji. The monochrome glyphs feel quieter and take the colour of your text.
- Fan and support accounts: match the heart colour to the theme, such as 💜 or 🩵, and use the same one every time so it becomes a signature.
- Couple or family group chats: a heart in the group name, such as ♡ ʜᴏᴍᴇ ᴛᴇᴀᴍ ♡, is easy to spot in a crowded list.
- Charity or health posts: keep hearts to one per line. Too many reads as noise and can feel out of tone.
One more habit helps. Keep a plain-text note with your favourite hearts and patterns, so you can paste them again without searching.
Keyboard shortcuts for hearts
You do not always need to copy. On Windows 10 or 11, press Windows key + period (or semicolon) to open the emoji panel and search for “heart”. On a Mac, press Control + Command + Space for the Character Viewer, which is described in Apple’s guide to using emoji and symbols on Mac. On a phone, open the emoji keyboard and search for the heart you want. The old Alt + 3 shortcut on Windows can type ♥ in some apps, but it depends on the app, so the symbol picker is more reliable. In Word, type 2665 and press Alt + X to get ♥.
The plain-text emoticon <3 is the oldest heart of all. It needs no Unicode at all, and many apps turn it into a heart emoji automatically.
Where hearts work, and where they do not
- Works: bios, display names, captions, comments, messages, notes, spreadsheets and documents.
- Does not work: usernames and handles, which usually allow only letters, numbers and a few punctuation marks.
- Risky: passwords, email addresses and file names. Many systems reject or mishandle these characters.
- Accessibility: screen readers read emoji by name, for example “red heart”, so a row of twenty hearts becomes twenty announcements. Use one or two.
- Appearance: the same heart may be black, coloured, thin or heavy depending on the device. Preview on both a phone and a computer.
Real fonts for love and weddings
If you need heart-themed lettering for an invitation, a card or a logo, a real font will look cleaner than pasted symbols. Start with wedding fonts and script fonts, or the softer shapes in rounded fonts. Always check the license on a font before using it in something you sell. Our fancy font copy and paste page covers other decorative styles.
Frequently asked questions
What are heart fonts copy and paste?
They are heart symbols and heart-decorated text styles that you copy from a page and paste into an app. They are Unicode characters, so no font needs to be installed.
Why does my heart turn red when I paste it?
Because the emoji version includes a hidden variation selector (U+FE0F) that asks the app to show a colour emoji. The plain symbol ❤ without that selector may show as a black or text-coloured heart.
Can I use heart symbols in my username?
Usually not. Most platforms accept hearts in display names and bios but not in the @handle or login. Check the platform’s naming rules.
Why does a heart show as a box?
The device has no font with that character. Newer emoji hearts, such as the pink, light blue and grey ones added in 2022, are the most likely to fail on older phones and computers.
