One day, I am going to get my old barn finished and in theory move in some power tools. One thing I want a band saw. I’ve been looking on Marketplace and Craigslist and also at some new ones, pretending I have space to put one.
That’s when I found this.
People, those are square root symbols. Or radicals, if you’re feeling particularly mathy.
Those are not check marks.
It’s 2024. There are unlimited fonts out there, and the tools to use them.
Fire up InDesign or Illustrator, or anything that has type controls. Open the Glyphs window.
Et Voilà.
See if the font you’re using has a check mark, or, use a font that does, for wherever you need the checkmark. Minion Pro, Zapf Dingbats, Lucida Grande – all are common in the Mac/Adobe world, and all have checkmarks.
As does the free Google font Noto Sans Symbols 2. https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+Symbols+2
Even in Canva, if you can’t find the glyphs (I cannot find them in Canva!) you can go to a site like https://fsymbols.com, find a checkmark, and paste it right in your Canva file.
So no need to be radical. Or square. Use proper checkmarks in your documents when you can. It’s easy! Ish.