Heart symbols and love-related characters
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Last reviewed on May 7, 2026
Heart symbols come in two distinct visual families on most devices. The first is the line-art suit hearts — the same heart that appears on a playing card — in two forms: solid (♥) and outlined (♡). These render as a thin glyph in your text font and inherit the surrounding text color, which is what you usually want inside running prose.
The second family is the emoji hearts in their familiar plump shape, available in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, white, and brown, plus shaped variants such as the sparkling heart, growing heart, beating heart, broken heart, and the heart with a ribbon. These are presentation emoji and render in color even when the surrounding text is monochrome.
If you are writing inside a body of text and want the heart to match the rest of your typography, the suit heart (♥ or ♡) is usually the right pick. It scales with your font size, takes your text color, and prints cleanly. The emoji heart is the right pick for chat messages, social posts, and any context where a colored, expressive glyph is the point.
The colored emoji hearts have picked up loose conventions in everyday messaging. Red is general affection. Pink and purple are commonly used for friendship and adoration. Blue often signals trust or platonic support. Green is associated with nature, growth, or supporting causes. Black is used for mourning, dark humor, or aesthetic. White suggests purity or sympathy. Conventions vary by community, platform, and audience — treat them as soft signals rather than rules.
The suit heart predates color emoji by decades and is supported in nearly every text font. The colored emoji hearts rely on the system emoji font and may render as a black-and-white glyph on older platforms or in environments without a color emoji font. If a heart shows up as a square box (“tofu”), the device does not have a font that covers that code point.
Is the heart suit and the red heart emoji the same character? No. The suit heart is U+2665 (BLACK HEART SUIT). The red heart emoji is U+2764 (HEAVY BLACK HEART) which most platforms render as a red heart, often with the emoji variation selector U+FE0F to force color presentation.
Can I change the color of the suit heart? Yes. Because it is a text glyph, CSS color changes apply: color: red turns ♥ red on the web.
Pair this category with the aesthetic symbols for sparkles and florettes, or browse curated collections for themed sets that combine hearts with other decorative glyphs.
The colored heart emoji are accessible from the emoji keyboard on both iOS and Android; the line-art suit hearts are not. See how to type symbols on iPhone and Android for the full mobile workflow.