# single thick arrow bent 90 degrees instead of two double thick arrows

I would like to draw such arrows in my tikz document -

and I have done it using the following code -

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[node distance=2.5cm,auto,>=latex]
\usepgflibrary{shapes.arrows}
\node [single arrow, draw=none,fill=black,opacity=0.5, minimum width=0.8cm, minimum height=1.5cm,anchor=west,rotate=90] at (-3.25,-1) {};
\node [single arrow, draw=none,fill=black,opacity=0.5, minimum width=0.8cm, minimum height=1.6cm,anchor=west] at (-3.12,-0.845) {};

\node [single arrow, draw=none,fill=black,opacity=0.5, minimum width=0.8cm, minimum height=1.5cm,anchor=west,rotate=90] at (4.25,-1) {};
\node [single arrow, draw=none,fill=black,opacity=0.5, minimum width=0.8cm, minimum height=1.60cm,anchor=west,rotate=180] at (4.12,-0.845) {};

\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}


However, I find a gap between two arrows, especially when I use scalebox. I don't want to have this gap between the arrows, rather I want to make it feel like one single arrow. Could anyone tell me how to do it please?

Thanks !

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You could use the arrow box shape like this:

\documentclass[tikz, border=0.125cm]{standalone}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.arrows}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}

\node [arrow box,
arrow box shaft width=0.125cm,
inner sep=0.125cm/2, % should be half shaft width
fill=gray,
arrow box arrows={north:.5cm, west:0.5cm}]
{};

\node [arrow box,
arrow box shaft width=0.125cm,
inner sep=0.125cm/2, % should be half shaft width
fill=gray,
arrow box arrows={north:.5cm, east:0.5cm}]
at (1,0) {};

\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}


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You could place two path manually (not very elegant, but working, needs cvs version of tikz):

\documentclass[article]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\begin{document}

\def\lwidth{3mm}
\begin{tikzpicture}[garrow/.style={black!50!white, line width=\lwidth},
garrowtip/.style={-{Triangle[length=5mm,width=8mm]}},]
\draw[garrow] (.5*\lwidth,0) edge[garrowtip] (.5*\lwidth,2);
\draw[garrow] (0,.5*\lwidth) edge[garrowtip] (2,.5*\lwidth);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}


result:

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By using the CVS version of TikZ. –  percusse Nov 25 '13 at 12:33
@percusse thx, wasn't aware that I need the cvs version for the arrow tips –  someonr Nov 25 '13 at 12:39