Unicode UTF-8 external link arrow symbol (closest thing to it)

external_link_arrow.txt

↗

or maybe one of:

↗ ⬈ ⇗ ➶ ➹ 🡥 🡵 🡽 🢅 ⬈ ⬀ ⭷ 🛪

“🔗” (U+1F517

alternatives are:

⧉, ⧉, ⮺, ⎋, ⏍, ◳, ❐, ⬔, ⭷, ↸, ⇱, ⤯, ↻, ⇲

I found this one which can be useful :

⎘

I found this one ☍

I don't like the emoji link for text, it's too much like a picture. This one is subtler (although... not actually a link)

There's also marriage, but it doesn't render well IMO ⚭

Honestly, this kind of works too ▞

And ⸙

⤴ looked good and relatively easy to infer in my implementation.
Example external link⤴

warning: Using unicode characters may work on your machine, but it may not work on other operating-systems/platforms, or even different fonts.

🗗

There is a Unicode proposal for introduction of external link symbol.

Thanks for sharing. This is interesting.

Waiting for the new Unicode approval, I started using the symbol ⎋ rotated for external links.
https://www.paulox.net/

Waiting for the new Unicode approval, I started using the symbol ⎋ rotated for external links. https://www.paulox.net/

Thank you for the symbol and the rotation hint. I incorporated them to style all external links on my website, (except the social links, which are essentially svg icons): https://bhoot.dev/about/#part-of-small-web

Waiting for the new Unicode approval, I started using the symbol ⎋ rotated for external links. https://www.paulox.net/

Thank you for the symbol and the rotation hint. I incorporated them to style all external links on my website ...

You're welcome 🤗

⤴ looked good and relatively easy to infer in my implementation. Example external link⤴

It does look good. The only issue I have with using that one is that the Markdown footnote extension uses this glyph/character to return you to the footnote anchor point:

To my brain, your glyph reads more like 'jump back up the page' than 'follow an external link'. I'm looking to replace that [Link] text with something more elegant, but using your glyph would definitely introduce confusion in this case.

I don't like the cartoony chain links though.