The keyboard on the screen will change to reflect the symbols you can type by pressing the respective modifier keys. You can press any of the modifier keys “ Option, Shift or Command” to see the difference in the keyboard.
This will show a virtual keyboard on your screen. Once you are done with that, simply click the icon on your menu bar and click on “ Show Keyboard Viewer“. If you don’t already have the Keyboard viewer enabled on your Menu bar, go to System Preferences -> Keyboard and check the checkbox next to “ Show viewers for keyboard, emoji, and symbols in menu bar.” While it is not humanly possible for me to cover each and every symbol that the Mac keyboard offers to users, I can point you in the right direction to find the shortcuts to your favourite symbols on the keyboard with ease. Depending on the kind of work you do on your Mac, you might have a highly different list of symbols that you use frequently. Obviously the four symbols I covered above aren’t the only ones that people use frequently.
If you do a lot of branding work, or just want to make sure that you include the “™” symbol with every brand name that has been trademarked, feel free to use this symbol by pressing Option + 2 on your keyboard.ĭiscovering Additional Mac Keyboard Symbols
A similar symbol appears by pressing Option + 0 (Zero), so make use of whatever suits your needs best. However, you can also use Option + Shift + 8 to get to this symbol. The only way to access the “degree” symbol was by going to the “ Character and Emoji” viewer on the Mac and looking for it. This is one I have to use pretty often, and I assume a lot of people do.