Ask HN: Is there a symbol for the Hyper key?

#1

Post by mathieudutour » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 8:05 AM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: Is there a symbol for the Hyper key?

#2

Post by compressedgas » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 8:39 AM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a symbol for the Hyper key?

#3

Post by pndy » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 8:54 AM UTC

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...

Re: Ask HN: Is there a symbol for the Hyper key?

#4

Post by Someone » Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 9:19 AM UTC

compressedgas wrote: post #2

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.

According to Wikipedia, Sun has used the black diamond "◆" for meta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_key)

That article has a photo showing it on a keyboard, but I wouldn’t know whether that was a meta key