Bullet (typography)
In typography, a bullet ( • ) is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list. For example:
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3
It is likely that the name originated from the resemblance of the traditional circular bullet symbol (•) to an actual bullet.
The bullet symbol may take any of a variety of shapes, such as circular, square, diamond, arrow, etc., and typical word processor software offer a wide selection of shapes and colours. Several regular symbols are conventionally used in ASCII-only text or another environments where bullet characters are not available, such as * (asterisk), - (hyphen), . (period), and even o (lowercase O). Of course, when writing by hand, bullets may be drawn in any style.
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)