Symbol (typeface)

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Symbol is one of the four standard fonts available on most PostScript-based printers. It contains a complete unaccented Greek alphabet (upper and lower case) and a selection of commonly used mathematical symbols as well. Such as it fits into any standard classification, it is a serif font designed in the style of Times Roman.

Due to lack of diacritical characters, a non-standard character set, and inappropriate type design for continuous text, Symbol cannot easily be used to type the Greek language, though it has been used for such in the absence of proper Greek fonts. Its primary purpose is to typeset mathematical expressions.

It is not encoded using any standard character encoding, and the Greek letters are not in alphabetical order. Instead, it uses impressionistic equivalents of Latin characters:

Symbol
	x0	x1	x2	x3	x4	x5	x6	x7	x8	x9	xA	xB	xC	xD	xE	xF
0x	unused
1x	unused
2x		!	∀	#	∃	%	&	∍	(	)	*	+	,	-	.	/
3x	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	:	;	<	=	>	?
4x	≅	Α	Β	Χ	Δ	Ε	Φ	Γ	Η	Ι	ϑ	Κ	Λ	Μ	Ν	Ο
5x	Π	Θ	Ρ	Σ	Τ	Υ	ς	Ω	Ξ	Ψ	Ζ	[	∴	]	⊥	_
6x		α	β	χ	δ	ε	φ	γ	η	ι	ϕ	κ	λ	μ	ν	ο
7x	π	θ	ρ	σ	τ	υ	ϖ	ω	ξ	ψ	ζ	{		}		~