Lower Seven Eighths Block

Lower Seven Eighths Block at U+2587 is a nearly full-height rectangular block character, filling the lower seven eighths of its character cell and leaving a thin blank band at the top. It is part of the Block Elements block, a set of text characters designed for building simple graphics, bars, and shaded shapes in monospaced environments. Its most common practical use is in terminal and console graphics, especially progress meters, volume indicators, signal-strength displays, and compact bar charts. A program can mix related block heights such as ▆, ▇, and █ to show fractional levels more smoothly than whole-character steps allow. It also appears in plain-text dashboards, roguelike games, demo-scene text art, and legacy-style interfaces where graphics must be made from characters rather than images. In data visualization, it can represent a very high value just below a full block, useful for sparklines or histogram columns that need eight vertical levels. Because its effect depends on cell geometry, it works best in monospaced fonts and can look uneven in proportional text. It is visually close to Full Block and Lower Three Quarters Block, so precision matters when copying it for charts or text art.