Degree symbol
Type :deg: · Math
What ° is for
Temperature, angles, and coordinates. Style guides split on the space: 20°C usually closes up for temperature, while a bearing like 45° never takes one. It is a degree sign, not a superscript o, and the difference shows up the moment anything tries to search or sort the text.
How to type °
The shortcuts below are the built-in routes. With
Emoji Anywhere
installed you can skip all of them and type
:deg: in any text field instead, which
is the same on every platform.
macOS
Option + Shift + 8
Windows
Alt + 0176
Hold Alt and type the digits on the keypad.
Shortcodes
:deg: :degree: On the web
HTML °
Unicode U+00B0
What ° gets mistaken for
degree celsius
A single character for the whole unit. Fine in running text, awkward if anything downstream expects a number followed by a unit.
ring operator
A maths operator that happens to look like a small degree sign. Wrong for temperature.
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