So Kühn and his team at digital design agency überdosis first set out to find an app or tool that found lookalike glyphs, which does exist but they weren’t “fun to use,” he says, and only found a few hundred characters.
Good luck finding it without knowing its name.” Did you know that there is a single character for those three dots? It’s called ellipsis. Other things can only be found with the exact name. The macOS character search finds less than 100 of the arrows, that’s not even half of what’s available.
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“We all use Unicode on a daily basis,” Kühn tells us, “and on macOS and Windows there are little helper tools to find the things you need, an emoji or - with a little bit of luck and the right search terms - some other things, but they don’t work well if you want more. Type in colours, categories, descriptions, lookalikes, or anything visual about the glyph you can recall, including other symbols that feature in the glyph, and the app will find them. The designer and developer has created Glyphfinder, an app that allows you to search the whole glyph library in myriad ways. But many designers come unstuck trying to find just the right symbol when designing a typeset or interface, and this is just the niche Philipp Kühn has targeted. Among the latter there are thousands of useful little symbols and icons – there are over 200 arrows, for example. The Unicode character set has 143,000 characters in total: letters, numbers and glyphs.
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