Box-Drawing & Block Characters
Every box-drawing character in Unicode, covering light, heavy and double lines, corners, junctions and dashes, plus the block elements used for bars and shading. The backbone of terminal UIs and ASCII art. Click any cell to copy.
These characters date back to DOS code page 437, where they drew the window borders of early PC software. Unicode unified them at U+2500 to U+259F, and JuliaMono draws them edge to edge so adjacent cells join seamlessly.
Box drawing: lines, corners & junctions 128
Block elements & shades 32
From DOS screens to ASCII art
Before computers could show real graphics, software drew its own windows and menus out of these very characters. They came from IBM code page 437, the character set built into the original PC in 1981, and they let a program fake boxes, borders and bar charts using nothing but text on a grid.
The tradition never died. The same pieces still power the text interfaces that run inside terminals today, and they remain the building blocks of ASCII art and the wider scene of people who make pictures out of plain characters. Because JuliaMono draws them to meet exactly at the edges, you can stack them into tables and boxes with no gaps showing.