


So whether you’re writing an online article (as I am), or editing a document in Word, Libre Office, or any other text editor for Mac, you can use these shortcuts to type degree (°), diacritic (˚) or the masculine ordinal indicator (º).Ģ. These shortcuts work across macOS, regardless of the app you’re typing in. This is the masculine ordinal indicator (º) You can read more about it over here. Option + 0 (zero): This is another mark, which, while similar in appearance to the degree symbol, is actually very different in usage.Though you can use it to imply degrees in your documents, we would recommend sticking with the option + shift + K shortcut. Option+K: This is the keyboard shortcut to type the diacritic mark (˚), which looks similar to the degree symbol, but is smaller, and the usage is different.Option+Shift+8: This is the actual keyboard shortcut for typing the degree symbol on Mac (°).By far, the easiest way to type the degree symbol in macOS is by using the dedicated keyboard shortcuts.
