Minimalist me: using unicode characters instead of images

[CJ Veniot]

G'day all,

Just a silly fyi in case it is of any use to anybody ...

Although I often delve in likely over-complicating by intertwingulitis, I do tend to keep some things just good enough.

Instead of using images/icons, I usually stick with unicode characters to get the job done (for all kinds of good web resources, like  https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html.)

See this example of a use case in my RAD.sb TiddlyWiki. 

Cheers !

[Riz]

Tad old but notable

https://tutorialzine.com/2014/12/you-dont-need-icons-here-are-100-unicode-symbols-that-you-can-use

[PMario]

Hi,

This should work for many platforms and devices. ... BUT it also depends on the fonts, that are available for the system. So you can't be sure if it works for every user. Unicode fonts grow considerably in size, depending which elements they implement.

-mario

[Rizwan Ishak]

The link I shared lists cross platform unicode characters that can be safely used.

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[TiddlyTweeter]

Riz wrote:

Tad old but notable

https://tutorialzine.com/2014/12/you-dont-need-icons-here-are-100-unicode-symbols-that-you-can-use

Good resource!

Without doing a controlled experiment you'd never know IF. BUT I'd say that resource is pretty damn good for ensuring the Unicode glyph WILL turn up in display reliably on any system.

TT 

[TonyM]

Tix

I am keen to use these but feel we need to use these in icons and buttons and without automation they can complicate search.

For example they will possibly disrupt prefix operators and other strings since they are hard to type in the keyboard.

An svg way of presenting such characters would be helpful. Along with sizing them.

Regards
Tony