If you’re anything like me you use all sorts of tricks to bounce tracks from playlist to playlist in iTunes with smart playlists picking up rated tracks that you haven’t listened to and pushing them to you iPhone etc. Well, today I decided to manually manage tracks on my iPhone and as a result started tinkering with iPhone only playlists.
I decided to add a five star playlist but thought it would be interesting if I actually had five stars glyphs displayed as the playlist name rather than just the words “five” and “stars.”
If you check your character palette you’ll find there are star glyphs available in a font supported by the iPhone! If you open up character palette (accessible from the International menu bar item, which you can activate in the International system preference pane) and search for star you find quite a few options. I went with the best looking star I could find and inserted in five times to end up with what’d below.
★★★★★
It’s worth noting, this wont render properly in your browser unless the font you’re using has the right glyph for the character code I’m using. It will work on the iPhone of course so feel free to copy and paste!
