This document lists some of the useful glyphs provided by the Segoe UI Symbol font that you can use as icons.
About the Segoe UI Symbol font
Most of the UI controls added to Segoe UI Symbol are mapped to the Private Use Area of Unicode (PUA). The PUA allows font developers to assign private Unicode values to glyphs that don’t map to existing code points. This can be useful when creating a symbol font, but it creates an interoperability problem. If the font is not available, the glyphs won’t show up. Only use these glyphs when you can specify the Segoe UI Symbol font.
If you are working with tiles, you can't use these glyphs because you can't specify the tile font and PUA glyphs are not available via font-fallback.
Many of these glyphs are available with zero width (they aren't filled). Zero-width glyphs are useful for layering on top of each other:
Many of the icons also have mirror forms available for use in languages that use bi-directional text.
Hearts
Rating stars
Checkbox components
Radio button components
Miscellaneous
Scroll bar arrows
Progressive disclosure arrows
Back buttons
Glyphs for back buttons are available in 2 different sizes so that the weight of the outer ring is consistent at both 20pt and 42pt. These glyphs are designed to support layering.
20pt back-button glyphs
42pt back-button glyphs
Back arrows for HTML
Add additional code to create circles around these glyphs.
AppBar glyphs
Use these glyphs in an AppBar. They're designed to be displayed at 14pt. Use additional code to create a circle around them.
Build date: 11/29/2012
