Here you go with some maths power symbols, like text square/squared symbol for x², plus a white and black text square box symbol assortment in case you were looking for those. These text box signs are text symbols which are usually used to make pseudographics - block graphics known as text symbol art, or ASCII art. People old enough to have seen DOS programs should know what I'm talking about. I personally used some of these black text square, rectangle and box symbols for my BIG TEXT Letters Font Generator.

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These text square box symbols are part of a big group of symbols called box drawing characters. They are widely used in text user interfaces to draw various frames and boxes. In graphical user interfaces these characters are much less useful, because it is much simpler to draw lines and rectangles directly with graphical APIs; besides, box drawing characters work only with monospaced fonts. They are still useful, however, for plain text comments on websites.

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Alt code shortcut works on all Desktop and many Laptop computers running MS Windows. You press Alt and, while holding it, text a certain Alt code on Num Pad while it's turned on. Please, watch my guide if you're running a laptop. You can text many frequently used symbols with this method.

I've listed some of the most prominent text box symbol codes here, but there's a bit more available - go to Alt codes list ☺♥♪ keyboard symbols for more.

Configure your keyboard layout in Windows so that you can type all additional symbols you want as easy as any other text. Takes about 5-10 minutes to set things up, but you'll be typing like a boss. You can assign square symbols and any other text characters to your keyboard using this technique.

CharMap allows you to view and use all characters and symbols available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Webdings") installed on your computer. You can input box symbols using it.

Character Palette allows you to view and use all characters and symbols, including boxes, available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Webdings") installed on your computer.

There actually are 3 different ways to type symbols on Linux with a keyboard. But only third and fourth level chooser keys and unicode hex codes can produce box text symbols.

Character map allows you to view and use all characters and symbols available in all fonts (some examples of fonts are "Arial", "Times New Roman", "Webdings") installed on your computer. It can also help you lookup Unicode codes for entering symbols with keyboard.

Following is a list of HTML and JavaScript entities for square symbols. In Javascript you should write like a = "this \u2669 symbol" if you want to include a special symbol in a string.