Yesterday, I was in the process of looking for a fitting logo for my new-established minikin company. Me thought it was an interesting idea to look for a Unicode / UCS character that would be fit to represent the logo I had in mind. So I grabbed the gucharmap tool and looked for such a thing. Sad enough, there was no such character in all the 100.000 Unicode chars I searched through. But I saw some other interesting Unicode alongside and I thought you readers might have fun with ’em too:
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இ U+0B87 TAMIL LETTER I |
Ain’t this crazy? Looks like a snake trying to mimic a pretzel. |
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௫ U+0BEB TAMIL DIGIT FIVE |
A new Version of “@”, with a Greek “pi” in it rather than an “a”. |
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๛ U+0E5B THAI CHARACTER KHOMUT |
Just a letter, but … hihihi. A snake contributing to modern art. It’s the funniest character I know of. It is used in Thailand to mark end of chapter or document. |
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☧ U+2627 CHI RHO |
The Christogramm. Didn’t know it’s also in Unicode. Might come in handy some time 🙂 |
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ꀎ U+A00E YI SYLLABLE UOP |
A real smiley … but oh, it’s pronounced “uop”. |
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៙ U+17D9 KHMER SIGN PHNAEK MUAN |
Khmer sign that indicates the beginning of a book or a treatise. See also the next character. |
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៚ U+17DA KHMER SIGN KOOMUUT |
Khmer sign that indicates the end of a book or treatise, used in conjunction with the previous one. Interesting idea, you Khmer people … . |
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⃠ U+20E0 COMBINING ENCLOSING CIRCLE BACKSLASH |
A special thing: a combining character that means “prohibition”. You can print it on top of everything else to prohibit it. Prohibit. Some examples, but I don’t known if your browser will show them correctly:
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▧ U+25A7 SQUARE WITH UPPER LEFT TO LOWER RIGHT FILL |
Wherefore do I need this? If you do, we could exchange some characters. Perhaps you have some I need … . |
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♨ U+2668 HOT SPRINGS |
Partial Java logo, I think. |
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⚯ U+26AF UNMARRIED PARTNERSHIP SYMBOL |
Though I think that marriage is the only valid and the best form of sexual partnership, I like this sign. I could hijack it to mean other forms of partnership, namely “community”. And use it in the logo of my yet-to-be-founded missional mobile community … . |
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⟡ U+27E1 WHITE CONCAVE-SIDED DIAMOND |
This means “never”, as a mathematical modal operator; I now just need to find a Unicode character for “day” or better “everyday” and I can write my blog’s name with only two letters. |
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㊓ U+3293 CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH SOCIETY |
This is used to mean “company”. Cool corporate logo element in Germany because nobody understands it! |
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㊯ U+32AF CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH ALLIANCE |
Also a possible logo element for community logo. |
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㊭ U+32AD CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH ENTERPRISE |
Looks like (and probably is) an encircled little house … cut graphic, like it. Cool for corporate logos … . |
Start date: 2008-01-18
Post date: 2008-01-19
Version date: 2008-01-20 (for last meaningful change)
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