How to Type Upside-Down Exclamation Point on Mac ¡!

“¡I need to type an inverted exclamation point!” the Mac user said… Indeed, the upside-down exclamation point ¡ is frequently used in Spanish and some other languages and thus it makes sense why you’d need to type the character, but if you’re using an English keyboard you may be wondering how you can type the upside down exclamation point character.

Fortunately the Mac makes this super simple. Typing the inverted exclamation point, or sometimes called the inverted bang, upside-down bang, or upside-down exclamation mark, is as easy as it gets

Type ¡ Upside-down Exclamation Point on Mac with Option+1

Just press Option 1 to type ¡ on the Mac. ¡It’s that easy!

In other words, instead of holding shift and pressing 1 to type a regular exclamation point, hold the Option/ALT key instead and press 1 to type the inverted exclamation point.

This is for an English layout keyboard.

Try it anywhere you can type and you will instantly see the symbol appear as expected.

Some users who didn’t know how to type the inverted exclamation point may have settled for typing the lowercase ‘i’ instead, since it looks similar, but the lowercase i is not vertically offset properly, and depending on the font used it has a little flag on the character as well. Compare the lowercase i with the inverted exclamation point ¡ side by side and you will see the difference right away: i¡i¡i¡i¡ As you can see, the upside down exclamation point if offset vertically and it’s just a flipped ! exclamation point.

Whether you’re learning a foreign language or just need to access the ¡ upside down exclamation point for another purpose, option+1 is super easy to remember since it’s the same key.

Now that you’ve learned how to type the flipped exclamation point, you may be interested in learning another commonly used punctuation symbol; typing the upside-down question mark. Don’t worry, it’s also simple.