Help with some special characters (░█)

Question

I am trying to get these two characters to render properly (░█). So far, I tried using \verb, utf8 encoding, utf8x encoding, using lualatex with a few different fonts following this method. Each time, it either did not compile, or rendered the characters as blank spaces.

Here is a basic version of the code :

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, linkcolor=black]{hyperref}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{float}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead[L]{\large Text}
\setlength{\headheight}{18pt}
\begin{document}
    <text>
    \subsection{ <░█░█░░█░█░█░> \textemdash{} Keygen Church}
    <more text>
\end{document

Update : I've botched together a "working" solution by saving the text as an image and doing this:

\subsection{\includegraphics{Images/text.png} \textemdash{} Keygen Church}

Solution: see this comment. I used ablatross ░ to get a list of compatible fonts and used one of them instead of Cascadia.

Please provide a minimal complete document, all the way from begin to end. Then we will know what packages you use, your settings, and so forth. First question: Are you using a font that actually has the requested characters? — rallg, Mar 16 '23 at 20:04
I used courier, which should have the correct characters (here is a table, though it's for the IBM variant but I reckon the base table should have them too) — payoliin, Mar 16 '23 at 20:23
that table you link to is not a Unicode font so it may have some characters that look like ░ but it has not got a character ░ ie character U+2591 you would have to do a custom maapping — David Carlisle, Mar 16 '23 at 20:32

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 16 '23 at 20:28

Firefox reported it used a font Cascadia Mono to show your question, so I told lualatex to use the same. You may have different fonts, but you can use whichever font your browser finds for these characters.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, linkcolor=black]{hyperref}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\newfontfamily\blockfam{Cascadia Mono}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead[L]{\large Text}
\setlength{\headheight}{18pt}
\begin{document}
    <text>
    \subsection{{\blockfam <░█░█░░█░█░█░>} \textemdash{} Keygen Church}
    <more text>
\end{document}

Help with some special characters (░█)

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