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Creative Bloq
Creative Bloq
Technology
Joseph Foley

Here's why your MacBook features an ancient heraldic symbol

A close-up image of a MacBook keyboard showing the Apple Command key.

It's not a huge exaggeration to say that it would be hard to imagine life without the humble Command key on Macs. The Apple equivalent of 'Control' is used as a modifier key in some of the most frequent key combinations that save us time in everything from basic word processing to Photoshop shortcuts and more. 

It's present on the best keyboards for Mac and the Magic Keyboard for iPad. But there's a question many never think to ask: why is Apple Command key marked with a heraldic knot?

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