How to Produce the Anarchy Symbol
Fancy anarchy with TikZ:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing}
\tikzset{mydeco/.style={decoration={random steps,segment length=.6,amplitude=.5},decorate,line cap=round}}
\tikzset{anarchy/.pic={
\draw[ultra thick,mydeco,decorate,red,fill=red](0,0)--(1,.3)--cycle;
\draw[ultra thick,mydeco,red,fill=red](.2,-.3)--(.5,.7)--cycle;
\draw[ultra thick,mydeco,red,fill=red](.5,.7)--(.8,-.3)--cycle;
\draw[red,ultra thick,line cap=round,mydeco](.5,.15) circle(.4);
}}
\begin{document}
Some real \tikz\pic{anarchy};narchy
\end{document}
Also in a more scalable fashion (doesn't scale to \tiny
)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing,positioning}
\tikzset{mydeco/.style={decoration={random steps,segment length=.08em,amplitude=.05em},decorate,line cap=round}}
\tikzset{anarchy/.pic={
\draw[line width=.1em,mydeco,decorate,red,fill=red](0em,0em)--(1.2em,.3em)--cycle;
\draw[line width=.1em,mydeco,red,fill=red](.2em,-.3em)--(.5em,.7em)--cycle;
\draw[line width=.1em,mydeco,red,fill=red](.5em,.7em)--(.8em,-.3em)--cycle;
\draw[line width=.1em,red,line cap=round,mydeco](.5em,.2em) circle(.6em);
}}
\newcommand{\anarchy}{\tikz\pic{anarchy};}
\begin{document}
\scriptsize Some real \anarchy{}narchy
\footnotesize Some real \anarchy{}narchy
\small Some real \anarchy{}narchy
\normalsize Some real \anarchy{}narchy
\large Some real \anarchy{}narchy
\end{document}
A variant with tikz
with longer horizontal bar:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand*{\AnarchySymbol}[1][50pt]{%
\tikz[
x=\dimexpr(#1)\relax,
y=\dimexpr(#1)\relax,
radius=\dimexpr(#1)\relax,
line width=\dimexpr.2\dimexpr(#1)\relax\relax,
]
\draw
circle []
(90:1) -- (235:1)
(90:1) -- (305:1)
(185:1) -- (-5:1)
;%
}
\begin{document}
\AnarchySymbol
\end{document}
Here are the Unicode code points for anarchic symbols. But the circled A is not at all pleasant. Maybe you have to download some cooler font.... I posted these just so you can see what exists and how to use it.
% arara: lualatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\newcommand{\test}[1]{#1 & \setmainfont{#1}\symbol{"24B6} & \setmainfont{#1}\symbol{"2605} & \setmainfont{#1}\symbol{"2691}}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{lccc}\toprule
Font& A & Black Star & Black Flag\\\midrule
\test{Symbola.ttf}\\
\test{Quivira.otf}\\
\test{Xits-regular.otf}\\
\test{Code2000.ttf}\\
\test{DejaVuSans.ttf}\\
Font Awesome&&&\faFlag\\\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
From Mr. Kormylo's comment:
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\begin{document}
\CircledA
\end{document}
And finally, here is the symbol from Wikipedia (I enlarged the horizontal bar for you). As your question was how to produce the anarchy symbol, I will explain that a bit. You download an SVG file from somewhere (like the one provided by Wikipedia) and open it in Inkscape. You will need to install the add-on inkscape2tikz
. In Inkscape you choose
Extensions -> Export -> Export to TikZ Path.
The rest should be clear.
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[y=0.5pt, x=0.5pt,yscale=-1]
\path[cm={{0.0,-1.0,1.0,0.0,(0.0,0.0)}},fill=black,rounded corners=0.0000cm]
(-360.0000,49.3220) rectangle (-296.0000,557.6695);
\path[fill=black] (300.0000,0.0000) .. controls (135.0000,0.0000) and
(0.0000,135.0000) .. (0.0000,300.0000) .. controls (0.0000,465.0000) and
(135.0000,600.0000) .. (300.0000,600.0000) .. controls (465.0000,600.0000) and
(600.0000,465.0000) .. (600.0000,300.0000) .. controls (600.0000,135.0000) and
(465.0000,0.0000) .. (300.0000,0.0000) -- cycle(300.0000,64.0000) .. controls
(431.0000,64.0000) and (536.0000,169.0000) .. (536.0000,300.0000) .. controls
(536.0000,431.0000) and (431.0000,536.0000) .. (300.0000,536.0000) .. controls
(169.0000,536.0000) and (64.0000,431.0000) .. (64.0000,300.0000) .. controls
(64.0000,169.0000) and (169.0000,64.0000) .. (300.0000,64.0000) -- cycle;
\path[cm={{-0.90631,-0.42262,0.42262,-0.90631,(0.0,0.0)}},fill=black,rounded
corners=0.0000cm] (-328.0631,-404.1956) rectangle (-264.0631,95.8044);
\path[cm={{-0.90631,0.42262,-0.42262,-0.90631,(0.0,0.0)}},fill=black,rounded
corners=0.0000cm] (-279.6533,-657.7666) rectangle (-215.6533,-157.7666);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}