You never know what direction you might need to point in, and here are over 200 helping hands.
Technically, in typography, this is known as a manicule, index, or fist.
Other terms include printer's fist, bishop's fist, digit, mutton-fist and pointing hand.
Common in early manuscripts, it fell out of favor with the typewriter, but Manfred Klein is bringing it back with a vengeance!