Club (♣), Diamond (♦), Heart (♥), and Spade (♠) in LaTeX
In this tutorial, I will show you how to get all the card symbols (♣, ♦, ♥, ♠) in LaTeX. You can use the default commands or other packages to get different styles of these symbols.
These are the default commands.
| Name | Command |
|---|---|
| Club (♣) | \clubsuit |
| Diamond (♦) | \diamondsuit |
| Heart (♥) | \heartsuit |
| Spade (♠) | \spadesuit |
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
$\clubsuit \; \diamondsuit \; \heartsuit \; \spadesuit$
\end{document}Output:

Card symbols (♣, ♦, ♥, ♠) with other packages
There are some packages that provide commands for these symbols that can be used to get different styles of these symbols. The packages are txfonts, MnSymbol, fdsymbol, boisik, and stix.
1. Let’s try with txfonts package.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{txfonts}
\begin{document}
$\verb|\varclubsuit| \rightarrow \varclubsuit$
$\verb|\vardiamondsuit| \rightarrow \vardiamondsuit$
$\verb|\varheartsuit| \rightarrow \varheartsuit$
$\verb|\varspadesuit| \rightarrow \varspadesuit$
\end{document}Output:

2. Let’s try with MnSymbol package.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{MnSymbol}
\begin{document}
$\verb|\clubsuit| \rightarrow \clubsuit$
$\verb|\diamondsuit| \rightarrow \diamondsuit$
$\verb|\heartsuit| \rightarrow \heartsuit$
$\verb|\spadesuit| \rightarrow \spadesuit$
\end{document}Output:

3. Let’s try with fdsymbol package.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fdsymbol}
\begin{document}
$\verb|\clubsuit| \rightarrow \clubsuit$
$\verb|\diamondsuit| \rightarrow \diamondsuit$
$\verb|\heartsuit| \rightarrow \heartsuit$
$\verb|\spadesuit| \rightarrow \spadesuit$
$\verb|\vardiamondsuit| \rightarrow \vardiamondsuit$
$\verb|\varheartsuit| \rightarrow \varheartsuit$
\end{document}Output:

4. Let’s try with boisik package.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{boisik}
\begin{document}
$\verb|\clubsuit| \rightarrow \clubsuit$
$\verb|\diamondsuit| \rightarrow \diamondsuit$
$\verb|\heartsuit| \rightarrow \heartsuit$
$\verb|\spadesuit| \rightarrow \spadesuit$
\end{document}Output:

5. Let’s try with stix package.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stix}
\begin{document}
$\verb|\clubsuit| \rightarrow \clubsuit$
$\verb|\diamondsuit| \rightarrow \diamondsuit$
$\verb|\heartsuit| \rightarrow \heartsuit$
$\verb|\spadesuit| \rightarrow \spadesuit$
$\verb|\varclubsuit| \rightarrow \varclubsuit$
$\verb|\vardiamondsuit| \rightarrow \vardiamondsuit$
$\verb|\varheartsuit| \rightarrow \varheartsuit$
$\verb|\varspadesuit| \rightarrow \varspadesuit$
\end{document}Output:

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