How do you make an interrobang, anyways‽

Now that we know there are special punctuation characters we never dreamed possible, people are wondering how we bend them to our will.

@EricaGlasier I knew the 'because' one!!! Hey wait a second...where'd you get the OMGWTF?! Is there an app for these?!

October 27, 2011 9:48 pm via Twitter for iPhoneReplyRetweetFavorite

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Andie Wolf

The OMGWTF, or “interrobang”, as it’s properly known, is

…intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also called the “interrogative point”) and the exclamation mark (known in printers’ jargon as the “bang”).
—Wikipedia

Awesome, we need that! So how do you make this snazzy symbol‽ There are a few ways.

In documents

If you’ve got the font Wingdings 2, and it was certainly standard on my last 100 laptops, you can make it with the ` or ] symbols, like so.

On websites*

‽  Unicode decimal value
‽  Unicode hexidecimal value**

*I have no idea how you actually use this information.
**From Grammar Girl, wherein she also details when to use the mark, in case you’re feeling tentative with your new punctuation powers. 

In websites

You most likely want to insert this bad boy cavalierly into a tweet, amiright? It’s stylish and saves a character in the precious 140. Here’s howsies:

Method 1: Copy & paste. Google “interrobang” and copy the first one you find. Improve on this by bookmarking the page so you don’t have to google.
Rating: ✭✭✭ Sorta slow and lame, but doable.

Method 2: Use a special characters browser extension. So far I haven’t found one that includes the effing ‽, but Fancy Characters for Chrome lets you paste in your own custom stuff, so do Method 1 to it & you’re all set. If you can find an extension that does it better, let me know in the comments.
Rating: ✭✭✭✭ Pretty awesome. Loves me my browser extensions for special characters—so l33t!