Ballot X

Voters in British elections mark their choice with a cross beside the candidate’s name. In other settings an X says no, or wrong, which is why a form asking for a cross should make clear whether it selects an option or rules one out.

This version of the cross is one of the dingbats in ITC Zapf Dingbats, the symbol typeface Hermann Zapf designed in 1978, which Unicode took into its Dingbats block.