Dingbat

In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters), or as a dinkus (section divider).

This practice was necessitated by the limited number of code points available in 20th century operating systems.

This code block contains decorative character variants, and other marks of emphasis and non-textual symbolism.

[4][5] The Ornamental Dingbats block (U+1F650–U+1F67F) was added to the Unicode Standard in June 2014 with the release of version 7.0.

This code block contains ornamental leaves, punctuation, and ampersands, quilt squares, and checkerboard patterns.