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.

NameCommand
Club (♣)\clubsuit
Diamond (♦)\diamondsuit
Heart (♥)\heartsuit
Spade (♠)\spadesuit
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

 $\clubsuit \; \diamondsuit \; \heartsuit \; \spadesuit$

\end{document}

Output:
 clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades symbol.

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, MnSymbolfdsymbol, 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:

 clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades symbol with txfonts packages.

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:

 clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades symbol with MnSymbol packages.
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:

 clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades symbol with fdsymbol packages.
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:

 clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades symbol with boisik packages.
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:

 clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades symbol with stix packages.

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