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Symbols and more |
Unicode is a technology standard for representing characters. It includes over 144,000 symbols from 159 different languages, as well as various symbols, emoji, and a few non-visual characters and formatting codes. The standard is managed by the nonprofit Unicode Consortium.
This chapter focuses less on the technical implementation and more on resources for interesting symbols to use in your projects.
{% embed url="https://emojipedia.org" %} Emojipedia guide to Emoji {% endembed %}
{% embed url="https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html" %} Full Emoji List from the Unicode Consortium {% endembed %}
There are various emoji libraries available for use, whether open source or free for non-commercial purposes. Here are our recommendations:
{% embed url="https://twemoji.twitter.com/" %} Twemoji {% endembed %}
{% embed url="https://openmoji.org/" %} OpenMoji {% endembed %}
{% embed url="https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Emoji" %} Noto Emoji {% endembed %}
{% embed url="https://sensa.co/emoji/" %} Sensa's free emoji set {% endembed %}
{% embed url="https://unicode-table.com/en" %}
What is a non-visual character? The idea seems fairly strange, but there are a few special characters which were useful in the earlier days of computing. One of these is the "bell character" which emits the sound of a bell 🔔 rather than printing a character to the screen.
{% embed url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_character" %}