: Where should I use new → I see everywhere? I currently use to refer to an external link on my personal website. However recently I have started noticing extended use of → for links. Is

@Eichhorn148

Semantically I think → is an incorrect choice for external links because to me that reads like 'continue on in this direction'. I also don't know how that is read by a screen reader (being that it is a text character and all)

That being said, as Su' has mentioned, there is no standard nor any real need to adopt one.

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@Kristi941

People use all sorts of things for links. Use whatever makes sense for your actual design. The icon you're currently using is fairly common and well-known. For whatever it's worth, I don't think I've ever encountered that → character in this use. Asking if it's a replacement kind of assumes there's a standard in the first place; there isn't.

Such indicators have largely gone out of fashion in my own experience. I probably only see them anymore on sites that by nature are very heavily internally linked and so external links really are a bit of an oddity, eg. Wikipedia. Anywhere else, it's just an assumed possibility that you might get sent off-site.

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