# Create big fat green arrow like in excel

For my masters thesis I'm using a specific questionnaire. The questionnaire provides an evaluation tool that provides some nice graphics in excel. I want to create the same look in Latex to keep everything consistent.

I can not find a good way to include an arrow symbol that look similar to the one in the picture.

\textcolor{OliveGreen}{$\uparrow$}


Just does not cut it for me.

I already looked here https://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/LaTeX_symbols.pdf and scribbled in http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html but found nothing suitable.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.arrows}
\newcommand{\FancyUpArrow}{\begin{tikzpicture}[baseline=-0.3em]
ysep=0.2em,transform shape,line width=0.05em,top color=green,bottom color=green!50!black] (X){};
\end{tikzpicture}}
\begin{document}
ABC \FancyUpArrow\ DEF

{\Large ABC \FancyUpArrow\ DEF}
\end{document}


The pifont package has all kinds of nice arrows:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pifont}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

foo \rotatebox{90}{\color{green!80!black}\ding{225}} bar

\end{document}


This is a simple construction of a big fat green arrow using Mathcha. By changing the scale parameters you can construct an arrow of different sizes depending on the size of the character which is not automatic.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,table,xcdraw]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\tikzset{every picture/.style={line width=0pt}}
\newcommand{\bigfatgreen}{\begin{tikzpicture}[x=0.5pt,y=0.6pt,yscale=-.5,xscale=.5]
\draw  [fill=ForestGreen!70,fill opacity=1] (100,123.22) -- (113.25,113) -- (126.5,123.22) -- (119.88,123.22) -- (119.88,138.54) -- (106.63,138.54) -- (106.63,123.22) -- cycle ;
\end{tikzpicture}}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}[]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
\hline
\rowcolor[HTML]{C0C0C0}
\multicolumn{1}{|c|}{\cellcolor[HTML]{C0C0C0}\textbf{Item}} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\cellcolor[HTML]{C0C0C0}\textbf{Mean}} & \multicolumn{1}{c|}{\cellcolor[HTML]{C0C0C0}\textbf{Variance}} \\ \hline
1                                                           & \bigfatgreen\, 1,3                                                        & 1,0                                                            \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}