Bullet (typography)

In <a href="/facts/Typography/byx4sANl">typography</a>, a bullet or bullet point, •, is a typographical symbol or <a href="/facts/Glyph/A7Gesbxj">glyph</a> used to introduce items in a list. For example:

<ul><li>Red</li>
<li>Green</li>
<li>Blue</li></ul>
The bullet symbol may take any of a variety of shapes, such as circular, square, diamond or arrow. Typical <a href="/facts/Word_processor/qAR7lagF">word processor</a> software offers a wide selection of shapes and colors. Several regular symbols, such as * (<a href="/facts/Asterisk/qwmtPW5V">asterisk</a>), - (<a href="/facts/Hyphen/2qtCxIGv">hyphen</a>), . (<a href="/facts/Full_stop/w0Ylafwn">period</a>), and even o (lowercase Latin letter <a href="/facts/O/41AF4mKp">O</a>), are conventionally used in <a href="/facts/ASCII-only_text/vGUI33Qu">ASCII-only text</a> or other environments where bullet characters are not available. Historically, the <a href="/facts/Index_(typography)/gugbJUHN">index symbol</a> ☞ (representing a hand with a pointing index finger) was popular for similar uses.
Lists made with bullets are called bulleted lists. The <a href="/facts/HTML_element/s4TKzjUP">HTML element</a> name for a bulleted list is "<a href="/facts/Unordered_list/s4TKzjUP">unordered list</a>", because the list items are not arranged in numerical order (as they would be in a <a href="/facts/Numbered_list/cdLx5Cum">numbered list</a>).

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