12 comments

  • WA0 minutes ago
    Nice, but way too many abbreviated descriptions and no way to see the full name of a symbol without clicking on it. Needs a tooltip &#x2F; title.<p>Or better, if what feels like 90% of all symbol names are abbreviated, your design simply doesn&#x27;t work. This is especially apparent in the &quot;arrows&quot; section.
  • jdeisenberg1 hour ago
    I’m looking at the currency block. Each box has a colored “drop shadow”. I spent a minute or so trying to figure out what the significance of the color is. Finally, I noticed that the color appears to cycle between cyan, magenta, and yellow. Is this a design element only, or do the colors actually have some meaning with respect to the symbol?
    • yarlinghe31 minutes ago
      Purely cosmetic. In hindsight, probably unnecessary — but once you add color, it’s hard to stop
    • spoiler1 hour ago
      Not the author, but it seems to be only stylistic
  • keepamovin17 minutes ago
    This is beautiful. Love the design. When I read the title I thought it was &quot;one page per Unicode&quot; so I click on the codes and hope a page will open with a giant Unicode where I can see about it in details.<p>Oh well! Still good.<p>When I click the &quot;Click to copy&quot; my UI reflex tells me to look for a &quot;Copied!&quot; or similar acknowledgement. But I don&#x27;t see one, so there&#x27;s uncertainty if it was copied safely to my invisible clipboard or not.<p>Please keep making this, it&#x27;s good! What inspired you for the design? I like this style, and notice it around, but can&#x27;t pinpoint.
  • arendtio9 minutes ago
    Some constructive criticism:<p>Please don&#x27;t display text directly on the grid background image. It makes it impossible to read the text easily. Currently, this is the case when you open the page for a specific symbol in the &#x27;Usage &amp; Context&#x27; section.
  • ChrisMarshallNY19 minutes ago
    Very nice.<p>I found it odd, that tapping on a square “highlights” it, by making it “pop,” but nothing else really happens.<p>It took me a bit to figure out that I need to actually select the arrow in the upper right corner, to get the page.
  • victrflow1 hour ago
    Ohh, this is great! I actually was looking for something like this the other day. Thanks for sharing and nice work!
  • yarlinghe4 days ago
    Planning to add more symbol-specific notes (confusables, common pitfalls, rendering quirks). Curious what details people usually look for but can’t find.
    • __patchbit__4 days ago
      I don&#x27;t know how to find the ideal font for the missing glyph on my environment which is BSD.<p>Using the `unicode&#x27; command from plan9userspace, for example<p><pre><code> unicode 2ff0-2fff </code></pre> the last three symbols are shown inside emacs as squares with the four hex values inside.<p>Typing in the search field `2fff&#x27; finds `no match found&#x27;.
      • yarlinghe4 days ago
        Good catch — I just pushed an update based on this.<p>The symbols search now supports code-point lookup, so you can search by:<p>U+2FFF<p>0x2FFF<p>plain hex (2fff, 4–6 digits)<p>This makes it possible to jump straight to a symbol page even when the glyph doesn’t render locally and you only have the code point (like the Emacs&#x2F;BSD case you described).<p>One limitation to note: some symbols aren’t covered by common or default system fonts, so they may still appear as tofu boxes depending on the font stack. That’s a font coverage issue rather than Unicode itself.<p>Appreciate you calling this out — this was exactly the kind of workflow gap I wanted to catch.
        • longor199618 minutes ago
          Maybe you could use unifont glyphs (drawn as SVGs?) as fallback?
  • mda43 minutes ago
    On mobile, the expand icon covers 1&#x2F;4 of each character so it is hard to see what they are
    • yarlinghe22 minutes ago
      Yeah, mobile is rougher than desktop right now. Thanks for flagging it.
  • rswail1 hour ago
    I&#x27;d like the hint to display the hidden parts of each box when hovered.<p>I don&#x27;t need to be told on each one to &quot;Click to Copy&quot;.<p>But nice concept.
    • yarlinghe25 minutes ago
      Good points. The hover hint could definitely do more useful work, and the repeated “Click to Copy” is probably overexplaining. UI polish still very much in progress
  • LordGrey4 days ago
    I really like this. I appreciate the many &quot;copy&quot; buttons that make it easy to grab various font values once I find a character. Good job!
    • yarlinghe4 days ago
      Thanks — glad the copy buttons are useful. That was exactly the goal.
  • Freak_NL1 hour ago
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