Comments on: How to Create Copyright and Trademark Symbols via Keystrokes [Windows]

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:39:06 +0000

Thank you very much, the information was useful and easy to understand. Thanks again!

By: fiffti

fiffti — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:43:02 +0000

Quite informative.Thanks for sharing!!

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:07:45 +0000

For use in HTML, the best thing to do is go to a character reference page and then you can just copy and paste the character itself right into your source - you only need to use entities if you are still using ASCII as your encoding, but everything should be in unicode these days. The character reference I use is from calcResult.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:04:08 +0000

Good points all around. Another common “cheat” is to use parenthesis (c). You see this a lot in text files whose encoding does not support the full Â© symbol.

Same goes for just TM instead of â„¢.

Excellent point.

By: John

John — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:48:09 +0000

In addition to what Jonathan said (regarding not actually needing anything except the registered trademark symbol), it’s also worth mentioning that there are valid text replacements defined by the Copyright and Trademark Offices, for those who don’t have access to fancier typography.

You’ll note that many books mention “X is a registered trademark of XYZ Corp;” “Copyright” and “Copr” are also interchangeable with the copyright symbol, which, again, is no longer required by any United States law–copyright is automatic with publication.

By: Guy McDowell

Guy McDowell — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:52:51 +0000

You could keep .psd’s with the characters in them for copy and paste. Or maybe set up a PhotoShop action for it. Then you’d just have to manipulate the font options.

By: Saikat

Saikat — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:43:41 +0000

That was a great link…thanks:)

By: jbinbpt

jbinbpt — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:40:09 +0000

Yesterday I needed to do this in Photoshop. None of those worked directly. I had to do it in word, then copy and paste.

By: fullFx

fullFx — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:54:19 +0000

no doubt this is useful. but smashingmagazine.com in april 2009 released a free typography keyboard layout for windows and mac to cater to this requirement.

you can insert all sorts of frequently used special characters into any application through easily remember-able key combinations.

for more details read this post : http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/02/typography-keyboard-layout-download-now/

i personally found it very useful. do try it.

– fullfx

By: Saikat

Saikat — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:20:55 +0000

Thanks so much…yes, it does help a lot:)