The Increase Font Size Symbol is a Unicode-style interface concept associated with text formatting rather than a widely used, officially approved emoji. It was part of the broader group of pictographic and dingbat-like symbols discussed in Unicode and emoji-adjacent contexts, especially as older computer, web, and font icons were being considered for standardized character encoding. While the idea fits the 2014-era expansion of symbols into emoji discussions, it never became a mainstream RGI emoji with a standard colorful Apple/iOS presentation. It is best understood as a proposed or encoded symbol concept that remained closer to a toolbar icon than an expressive emoji character.
The intended meaning would have been βmake text bigger,β βincrease readability,β βzoom in,β βemphasize this,β or βsay it louder.β Online, it could have been useful for jokes about shouting in large text, accessibility needs, meme captions, dramatic emphasis, or telling someone to βturn upβ the font size. People may have wanted it because messaging apps often lack a simple emoji-like way to refer to formatting, readability, or visual emphasis without using words.
If imagined as an Apple-style emoji or proposal mockup, the Increase Font Size Symbol would likely have appeared as a clean typographic icon: a capital letter A, a larger A, or an A paired with an upward arrow or plus sign. In concept art it would probably have used a simple black, gray, or blue interface-symbol style rather than a face or character with an emotional expression. Because Apple and Unicode did not establish it as a standard colorful emoji, any iOS-like version should be treated as conceptual rather than an official Apple emoji design.
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This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
