An Overline or overbar (a neologism coined in analogy to underline), refers to the typographical feature of a line drawn immediately above the text, for example used to indicate mediaval sigla.

In HTML, text results in

text

In Unicode, there is U+0305 "combining overline" ̅ (the difference to a macron (U+0304) being that its cumulation results in an unbroken line, compare ̅̅̅ to ̄ ̄ ̄). ISO/IEC 8859-1 0xaf / Unicode U+00AF ¯ is called both "overbar" and "macron" and usually does not result in an unbroken line.

See also

• underscore
• overstrike

Typography

Überstrich