I'd like the hint to display the hidden parts of each box when hovered.
I don't need to be told on each one to "Click to Copy".
But nice concept.
Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol
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#12On mobile, the expand icon covers 1/4 of each character so it is hard to see what they are
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#14I’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?
Purely cosmetic.
In hindsight, probably unnecessary — but once you add color, it’s hard to stop
Re: Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol
#15I'd like the hint to display the hidden parts of each box when hovered. I don't need to be told on each one to "Click to Copy". But nice concept.
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
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#16On mobile, the expand icon covers 1/4 of each character so it is hard to see what they are
Yeah, mobile is rougher than desktop right now. Thanks for flagging it.
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#17Very nice.
I found it odd, that tapping on a square “highlights” it, by making it “pop,” but nothing else really happens.
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.
Re: Show HN: One clean, developer-focused page for every Unicode symbol
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know how to find the ideal font for the missing glyph on my environment which is BSD. Using the `unicode' command from plan9userspace, for example unicode 2ff0-2fff the last three symbols are shown inside emacs as squares with the four hex values inside. Typing in the search field `2fff' finds `no match found'.
Good catch — I just pushed an update based on this. The symbols search now supports code-point lookup, so you can search by: U+2FFF 0x2FFF plain hex (2fff, 4–6 digits) 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/BSD case you described). One limitation to note: some symbols aren’t covered by common or default syste…
Maybe you could use unifont glyphs (drawn as SVGs?) as fallback?
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#19This is beautiful. Love the design. When I read the title I thought it was "one page per Unicode" so I click on the codes and hope a page will open with a giant Unicode where I can see about it in details.
Oh well! Still good.
When I click the "Click to copy" my UI reflex tells me to look for a "Copied!" or similar acknowledgement. But I don't see one, so there's uncertainty if it was copied safely to my invisible clipboard or not.
Please keep making this, it's good! What inspired you for the design? I like this style, and notice it around, but can't pinpoint.
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#20Some constructive criticism:
Please don'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 'Usage & Context' section.