Are you missing emojis on your favorite Mac app, email, or messaging service? If you are used to emojis supplementing your witty banter, it can be tough to give them up! Fortunately, Macs have their ...

Character entry? Isn’t that what we used to call “typing”? Yes, but how can you type characters that aren’t printed on your keyboard, or aren’t available at all through any key combination? There is ...

Your physical or digital keyboards present a limited number of character options on the surface. However, there are a few ways to access accented letters, special characters, and more on iPhone, iPad, ...

Your Mac’s keyboard makes it easy to type any of the standard characters—the ones used most frequently in everyday typing. But OS X lets you use hundreds of special characters that don’t appear on ...

When it comes to managing the vast array of unicode characters in modern font sets, Apple's character viewer tool can be exceptionally useful. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been ...

But if you frequently type special characters, a more-convenient option is Characters ( Mac App Store link). Whenever you need to “type” a special character, you just click Characters’s systemwide ...

Want to learn the quickest way to type special characters on macOS? Read along for how to do letter accents on Mac and more. There are multiple ways to do special characters and letter accents on Mac ...

You can use emoji in nearly any Mac app through the "Emoji & Symbols" menu. To open your Mac's Emoji menu, you can use a keyboard shortcut, or find it by clicking "Menu" at the top of the screen. The ...

Special characters are the bane of my scripting hobby. In dealing with text on a daily basis and constantly playing around with scripts and macros to make text ...

Have you ever needed to find and use special characters or create equations when writing in OS X? Here are some methods for locating and inserting these characters when using your Mac. Topher Kessler ...