Block Elements
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The Block Elements Unicode block provides a set of square and rectangular shapes used for creating graphic layouts, progress bars, and other visual effects in plain text. These characters are especially useful for legacy computing and simple visualizations.
Block Elements is a Unicode block containing square block symbols of various fill and shading. Used along with block elements are box-drawing characters, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters. These can be used for filling regions of the screen and portraying drop shadows. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was Blocks.