+--------------------------------------+ | THE COMPREHENSIVE LATEX SYMBOL LIST | | By Scott Pakin, scott+clsl@pakin.org | | | | 12 April 2026 | +--------------------------------------+ The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List is an organized list of over 25700 symbols commonly available to LaTeX users. Some of these symbols are guaranteed to be available in every TeX distribution. Others require font files that come with many, but not all, TeX distributions. The rest require font files that must be downloaded explicitly from CTAN (http://www.ctan.org/) and installed. The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List currently showcases symbols from 236 separate typefaces. The same directory that contains this README file also contains (1) prebuilt versions of the symbol list for both A4- and U.S. Letter-sized paper (symbols-a4.pdf and symbols-letter.pdf), (2) raw font tables for the various fonts used in the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (rawtables-a4.pdf and rawtables-letter.pdf), and (3) a text file named SYMLIST that lists all symbols that appear in the symbols list, with one column indicating the character or control sequence one would use in a LaTeX document and one column indicating the actual control sequence used internally by the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, If you'd like to build symbols.tex yourself (not recommended for normal use), a Makefile and a number of helper scripts are provided. symbols.tex tries to be smart about LaTeX packages; it omits tables of symbols that require unavailable packages. The "Document Characteristics" table appearing near the end of the document lists the packages that were unavailable during the build. The prebuilt versions of the symbol list use primarily vector fonts, which should look good at any resolution and on any output device. However, some of the fonts used by symbols.tex are available only in a METAFONT-generated bitmap format. The prebuilt symbol lists utilize 1200 DPI versions of all of the bitmapped fonts as 1200 DPI is a reasonably high printer resolution and therefore should obscure the artifacts of bitmap rendering. The following bitmapped fonts were used to typeset the symbol list: ark10.mf astrosym.mf bahaistar.mf bbm10.mf bbm9.mf bbmss10.mf bbmtt10.mf bskarr10.mf bskex10.mf bskma10.mf bskmi10.mf bskms10.mf bsksy10.mf china10.mf clock.mf cmapl10.mf cmph10.mf cmphi10.mf cookingsymbols.mf cryst.mf dancers.mf dice3d.mf dozchars10.mf dozchars9.mf fcr10.mf fcr9.mf feyntext10.mf fselch10.mf fulmr10.mf fulmr9.mf go10.mf go1bla10.mf go1whi10.mf go2bla10.mf go2whi10.mf greenpoint.mf hands.mf ifclk10.mf ifgeo10.mf ifsym10.mf ifwea10.mf igoblacki8.mf igoblacki9.mf igoblackiii8.mf igoblackiii9.mf igowhitei9.mf igowhiteiii9.mf knot1.mf knot2.mf knot3.mf knot4.mf knot5.mf knot6.mf knot7.mf magic.mf mbb10.mf mbb9.mf milstd.mf moonphase.mf nkarta.mf shuffle10.mf simpsons.mf skull.mf soyombo.mf soyombot.mf trsy10.mf ulsy10.mf wnr10.mf wsuipa10.mf wsuipa9.mf For completeness, the following scalable fonts (some converted from OpenType or TrueType to PostScript Type 1) were used to typeset the symbol list: academicons.otf (Academicons) ar10.pfb (ar10) ar9.pfb (ar9) ArevSans-Roman.pfb (Arev Sans) arrow.pfb (arrow) ArrowsADF.pfb (Arrows ADF) Asap-Symbol.otf (Asap Symbol) ASCII.pfb (ASCII) bbding10.pfb (bbding) bbold10.pfb (BBOLD10) BulletsADF.pfb (Bullets ADF) callig15.pfb (CALLIG15) CASIOClassWiz.ttf (CASIO ClassWiz) ccicons.pfb (CCIcons) cmbsy10.pfb (CMBSY10) cmbx10.pfb (CMBX10) cmbx7.pfb (CMBX7) cmex10.pfb (CMEX10) cmllr10.pfb (CMLL Regular 10pt) cmllr9.pfb (CMLL Regular 9pt) cmmi10.pfb (CMMI10) cmmi12.pfb (CMMI12) cmmi5.pfb (CMMI5) cmmi6.pfb (CMMI6) cmmi7.pfb (CMMI7) cmmi8.pfb (CMMI8) cmmi9.pfb (CMMI9) cmmib10.pfb (CMMIB10) cmmib5.pfb (CMMIB5) cmr10.pfb (CMR10) cmr12.pfb (CMR12) cmr17.pfb (CMR17) cmr5.pfb (CMR5) cmr6.pfb (CMR6) cmr7.pfb (CMR7) cmr9.pfb (CMR9) cmrj.pfb (Computer Modern Figured Bass) cmss17.pfb (CMSS17) cmsy10.pfb (CMSY10) cmsy5.pfb (CMSY5) cmsy6.pfb (CMSY6) cmsy7.pfb (CMSY7) cmsy8.pfb (CMSY8) cmsy9.pfb (CMSY9) cmti10.pfb (CMTI10) cmti9.pfb (CMTI9) cmtt10.pfb (CMTT10) cmtt8.pfb (CMTT8) cmupint.pfb (cmupint) countriesofeurope.otf (CountriesofEurope) cypr10.pfb (Archaic Cypriot) dictsym.pfb (Dictionary Symbols Georg Verweyen) dingbat.pfb (dingbat) dsrom10.pfb (dsrom10) DSSerif-Bold.pfb (Double Struck Serif Bold) DSSerif.pfb (Double Struck Serif) dsss10.pfb (dsss10) EBGaramond-Italic.pfb (EB Garamond Italic) emmentaler-16.otf (Emmentaler-16) Epi-Olmec.pfb (Epi-Olmce) Erewhon-Regular.otf (Erewhon Regular) esint10.pfb (esint10) esrelation10.pfb (esrelation10) eufm10.pfb (EUFM10) eufm7.pfb (EUFM7) eurm10.pfb (EURM10) eusm10.pfb (EUSM10) eusm7.pfb (EUSM7) FdSymbolA-Book.pfb (FdSymbolA-Book) FdSymbolB-Book.pfb (FdSymbolB-Book) FdSymbolB-Medium.pfb (FdSymbolB-Medium) FdSymbolC-Book.pfb (FdSymbolC-Book) FdSymbolD-Book.pfb (FdSymbolD-Book) FdSymbolE-Book.pfb (FdSymbolE-Book) FdSymbolF-Book.pfb (FdSymbolF-Book) feymr10.pfb (TeX feymr10 Regular) fgeit10.pfb (fgeit10) fgerm10.pfb (fgerm10) font-mfizz.ttf (font-mfizz) FontAwesome7Brands-Regular-400 (Font Awesome 7 Brands Regular) FontAwesome7Free-Regular-400.o (Font Awesome 7 Free Regular) FontAwesome7Free-Solid-900.otf (Font Awesome 7 Free Solid) fourier-alt.pfb (Fourier-Alternate-Roman) fourier-mcl.pfb (Fourier-Math-Cal) fourier-mex.pfb (Fourier-Math-Extension) fourier-mlit.pfb (Fourier-Math-Letters-Italic) fourier-ms.pfb (Fourier-Math-Symbols) FourierOrns-Regular.otf (FourierOrns Regular) frcsl10.pfb (frcsl10) frucmn.pfb (frucmn) gmtr0900.pfb (gmtr0900) gmtr1000.pfb (gmtr1000) grmn0900.pfb (grmn0900) grmn1000.pfb (grmn1000) HamNoSysUnicode.ttf (Hamnosysunicode) icelandic.pfb (icelandic) Junicode-Regular.otf (Junicode Regular) knitnn.pfb (KnittingSymbols-nogrid-foreground) knitnp.pfb (KnittingSymbols-nogrid-purl) lcircle1.pfb (LCIRCLE10) lightbulb10.pfb (LightBulb10) linb10.pfb (Archaic Linear B) line10.pfb (LINE10) LinearA.pfb (LinearA) LinearACmplxSigns.pfb (LinearACmplxSigns) lmbx10.pfb (LMRoman10-Bold) lmbx12.pfb (LMRoman12-Bold) lmbx8.pfb (LMRoman8-Bold) lmcsc10.pfb (LMRomanCaps10-Regular) lmr10.pfb (LMRoman10-Regular) lmr17.pfb (LMRoman17-Regular) lmr5.pfb (LMRoman5-Regular) lmr6.pfb (LMRoman6-Regular) lmr7.pfb (LMRoman7-Regular) lmr8.pfb (LMRoman8-Regular) lmr9.pfb (LMRoman9-Regular) lmri10.pfb (LMRoman10-Italic) lmss10.pfb (LMSans10-Regular) lmss8.pfb (LMSans8-Regular) lmss9.pfb (LMSans9-Regular) lmsso10.pfb (LMSans10-Oblique) lmsso9.pfb (LMSans9-Oblique) lmtt10.pfb (LMMono10-Regular) lmtt8.pfb (LMMono8-Regular) lmtt9.pfb (LMMono9-Regular) logix.otf (Logix) logo10.pfb (LOGO10) logo9.pfb (LOGO9) logosl10.pfb (LOGOSL10) manfnt.pfb (manfnt) marvosym.pfb (MarVoSym with TeX support) matha10.pfb (TeX matha10 Regular) matha9.pfb (TeX matha9 Regular) mathb10.pfb (TeX mathb10 Regular) mathb9.pfb (TeX mathb9 Regular) mathx10.pfb (TeX mathx10 Regular) md-chr7v.pfb (MathDesign CH Regular Extension 10) md-chr8c.pfb (MathDesign CH Regular TS1 10) md-gmr7v.pfb (MathDesign GM Regular Extension 10) md-gmr8c.pfb (MathDesign GM Regular TS1 10) md-utr7v.pfb (MathDesign UT Regular 10) md-utr7y.pfb (MathDesign UT Regular Symbol 10) md-utr8c.pfb (MathDesign UT Regular TS1 10) md-utrma.pfb (MathDesign UT Regular MathDesignSymbolA 10) md-utrmb.pfb (MathDesign UT Regular MathDesignSymbolB 10) metsymb.pfb (metsymb) miama.pfb (Miama Nueva) MnSymbol10.pfb (MnSymbol10) msam10.pfb (MSAM10) msam7.pfb (MSAM7) msbm10.pfb (MSBM10) msbm7.pfb (MSBM7) msym10.pfb (MSYM10) musix11.pfb (musix11) musix13.pfb (musix13) musix16.pfb (musix16) musix20.pfb (musix20) NewCM10-Book.otf (NewComputerModern10-Book) NewCMMath-Book.otf (NewComputerModernMath-Book) NewCMSans10-Book.otf (NewComputerModernSans10-Book) oasy10.pfb (OAMathSymbols10) OrnementsADF.pfb (Ornements ADF) phaistos.pfb (phaistos) pigpen.pfa (pigpen) plimsoll.pfb (Plimsoll) pmhg.pfb (Archaic Poor Mans Hieroglyphs) prodint.pfb (prodint) proto10.pfb (Archaic ProtoSemitic) qzcmi.pfb (TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic) recycle.pfb (Recycle) rojud.pfb (rojud) rsfs10.pfb (rsfs10) rtcxr.pfb (rtcxr) sarab10.pfb (Archaic South Arabian) sfcc0900.pfb (Computer Modern Caps and Small Caps) sfcc1000.pfb (Computer Modern Caps and Small Caps) sfrb0700.pfb (Computer Modern Roman Bold) sfrb0900.pfb (Computer Modern Roman Bold) sfrb1000.pfb (Computer Modern Roman Bold) sfrm0500.pfb (Computer Modern Roman) sfrm0600.pfb (Computer Modern Roman) sfrm0700.pfb (Computer Modern Roman) sfrm0900.pfb (Computer Modern Roman) sfrm1000.pfb (Computer Modern Roman) sfrm1095.pfb (Computer Modern Roman) sfrm1200.pfb (Computer Modern Roman) sfsx0800.pfb (Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended) sfsx1000.pfb (Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended) sfti0700.pfb (Computer Modern Italic) sfti0900.pfb (Computer Modern Italic) sfti1000.pfb (Computer Modern Italic) SkakNew-Diagram.pfb (SkakNew-Diagram) SkakNew-Figurine.pfb (SkakNew-Figurine) smfer10.pfb (Semafor-NoPillar) smfpr10.pfb (Semafor-PersonPillar) smfr10.pfb (Semafor-Regular) starfont.pfb (StarFont Sans) stix-mathbb.pfb (STIXMathBlackboard Regular) stix-mathbbit.pfb (STIXMathBlackboard Italic) stix-mathcal.pfb (STIXMathCalligraphy Regular) stix-mathex.pfb (STIXMathExtensions Regular) stix-mathfrak.pfb (STIXMathFraktur Regular) stix-mathit.pfb (STIXMath Italic) stix-mathrm-bold.pfb (STIXMath Bold) stix-mathrm.pfb (STIXMath Regular) stix-mathscr.pfb (STIXMathScript Regular) stix-mathsf.pfb (STIXMathSans Regular) stix-mathsfit.pfb (STIXMathSans Italic) stix-mathtt.pfb (STIXMathTyperwriter-Regular) stmary10.pfb (stmary10) stmary9.pfb (stmary9) SVRsymbols.pfb (SVRsymbols) tfrupee.pfb (RupeeTechFat) tipa10.pfb (TeX tipa10 Regular) tipa8.pfb (TeX tipa8 Regular) tipa9.pfb (TeX tipa9 Regular) tipx10.pfb (TeX tipx10 Regular) tipx9.pfb (TeX tipx9 Regular) txexa.pfb (txexa) txmia.pfb (txmia) txsy.pfb (txsy) txsyc.pfb (txsyc) typicons.ttf (Typicons) uhvb8a.pfb (Nimbus Sans L Bold) uhvbo8a.pfb (Nimbus Sans L Bold Italic) uhvr8a.pfb (Nimbus Sans L Regular) uhvro8a.pfb (Nimbus Sans L Regular Italic) umranda.pfb (umranda) umrandb.pfb (umrandb) usyr.pfb (Standard Symbols L) utmr8a.pfb (Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular) utmri8a.pfb (Nimbus Roman No9 L Regular Italic) uzcmi8a.pfb (URW Chancery L Medium Italic) uzdr.pfb (Dingbats) vect10.pfb (TeX vect10 Regular) vnr10.pfb (VNR10) vnr9.pfb (VNR9) wasy10.pfb (wasy10) wasy9.pfb (wasy9) WebOMintsGD.pfb (WebOMints GD) xgreg20.pfb (xgreg20) yfrak.pfb (Yannis Fraktur Regular) ygoth.pfb (Yannis Gotisch Regular) yhcmex.pfb (Yhcmex) yswab.pfb (Yannis Schwabacher Regular) zxxrw8a.pfb (Boondox Calligraphic Regular)