Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer • Hacker News Board

Cool but maybe consider a different name? If I want to recommend this tool in a few weeks' time there is approximately 0% chance I'm remembering it's called something like "Charcuterie", despite the clever bit of wordplay.

Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by iqfareez » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 2:40 AM UTC

tantalor wrote: post #9

Ouch, my back button

well you can right click the back button

Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by keyle » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 2:57 AM UTC

I like the animation work and sound, it really gamifies the experience. I question the usefulness though. But it could make a fun game experience if it were to let people match by colour or align emojis related to each other.

Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by emmelaich » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 3:05 AM UTC

wackget wrote: post #26

Cool but maybe consider a different name? If I want to recommend this tool in a few weeks' time there is approximately 0% chance I'm remembering it's called something like "Charcuterie", despite the clever bit of wordplay.

The title of the page is "Charcuterie — A Visual Unicode Explorer" so a search would bring it up. [edit - tested in a incognito page]

Re: Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer

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Post by meodai » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 3:12 AM UTC

keyle wrote: post #28

I like the animation work and sound, it really gamifies the experience. I question the usefulness though. But it could make a fun game experience if it were to let people match by colour or align emojis related to each other.

I use it to find icons I likr