filled \diamondsuit and \heartsuit

Question

\clubsuit, \diamondsuit and the like produce the familiar card suit symbols; however, the diamond and heart suits are empty (only outlined), while clubs and spades are filled. Is there a way to obtain the filled versions of \diamondsuit and \heartsuit in TeX?

A "clean" solution would be preferred, but even an ugly "take this shape and fill it" TikZ hack would do the job.

Answer 1

\usepackage{fdsymbol}

\clubsuit
\vardiamondsuit
\spadesuit
\varheartsuit

Answer 2

As Alan has pointed out, the symbols are available in arev, which does normally change all your fonts. The following (added to your preamble) only takes the two symbols you want from arev.

\DeclareSymbolFont{extraup}{U}{zavm}{m}{n}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\varheart}{\mathalpha}{extraup}{86}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\vardiamond}{\mathalpha}{extraup}{87}

Unfortunately the style differs slightly from the default symbols:

$\heartsuit\varheart\diamondsuit\vardiamond\clubsuit\spadesuit$

Answer 3

The arev package provides \varheart and \vardiamond which are filled. (The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols Guide is your friend here.)

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{arev}
\begin{document}
$\heartsuit\varheart\diamondsuit\vardiamond\clubsuit\spadesuit$
\end{document}

Since arev changes the math font, it's maybe not the best solution. (But see Caramdir's answer for a way around that.)

The txfonts packages also provides \varheartsuit and \vardiamondsuit, but again changes the math font.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath}
\begin{document}
$\heartsuit\varheartsuit\diamondsuit\vardiamondsuit\clubsuit\spadesuit$
\end{document}

Alternatively, if you use XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX, there are many fonts that contain these characters.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\suitfont{Dejavu Sans}

\begin{document}
{\suitfont♠︎♣︎♥︎♦︎♤♧♡♢}
\end{document}

Answer 4

The symbols are available in the pifont package using

\usepackage{pifont}

in your preamble and

\ding{168}              % club
{\color{red}\ding{169}} % diamond
{\color{red}\ding{170}} % heart
\ding{171}              % spade

to access the different symbols.

Answer 5

Another font that provides the filled diamond and heart suit symbols is kpfonts. From the preamble of my template file for type-setting bridge stuff:

\usepackage{kpfonts}
\usepackage{color}

\newcommand*\Hs[1]{\ensuremath{{\color{blue} #1}{\color{red}\varheartsuit}}}
\newcommand*\Ss[1]{\ensuremath{{\color{blue} #1}{\color{black}\spadesuit}}}
\newcommand*\Ds[1]{\ensuremath{{\color{blue} #1}{\color{red}\vardiamondsuit}}}
\newcommand*\Cs[1]{\ensuremath{{\color{blue} #1}{\color{black}\clubsuit}}}
\newcommand*\NT[1]{{\color{blue} #1}{\color{black}\textsc{nt}}}

of course, this predicates on your willing to switch to a whole new font, so is in some sense inferior to the solutions already given.

Answer 6

I found an unexpectedly easy way here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/124347/80217.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{ascii}

\begin{document}
\ETX
\end{document}

Answer 7

You asked this question in 2011. As of 2020, the modern toolchain with unicode-math also supports \varheartsuit and \vardiamondsuit.

If your Unicode text font contains the symbols ♥ (U+2665) and ♦ (U+2666), you can load fontspec and enter them directly, or as as ^^^^2665 and ^^^^2666.

If you want to use them in text mode and your main font does not contain them, you could patch them in as follows:

\newfontfamily\symbolfont{DejaVu Serif}[Scale=MatchUppercase]
\DeclareRobustCommand\textheart{{\symbolfont\symbol{"2665}}}
\DeclareRobustCommand\textdiamond{{\symbolfont\symbol{"2666}}}

Another option would be to set a font for that entire block of symbols using ucharclasses.

Answer 8

The package amssymb provides the filled lozenge symbol \blacklozenge similar to the filled diamond.