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Fraction Symbols21 symbols
Ready-made vulgar fractions — ½ ¼ ¾ and the rest. Open any one for its name and the fonts that have it.
About fraction symbols
The vulgar fractions are survivors of metal type, when ½, ¼ and ¾ were single sorts in the case because recipes and prices used them daily. Unicode keeps the common set as single characters, plus the fraction slash (⁄) for building others.
A single-character fraction (½) and a typed one (1/2) are different text: the single character searches, wraps and reads aloud as 'one half', and stays the right choice wherever the denominator is in the encoded set.