Finding a specific glyph?
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- boobs
OK. A lot of my fonts don't have the glyph I'm looking for ("white hexagon"). Is there any quick way to search the fonts on my Mac to find one that has that specific glyph?
- fadein110
can you be more specific please
- capn_ron0
can you recreate it?
- boobs0
This is the glyph:
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- boobs0
Most of the fonts on my machine don't have this glyph. But I have several hundred fonts. Is there any way to search--rather than just opening each font and looking at it, visually--to find a font which has this specific glyph?
- boobs0
How do I find this one glyph out of all the fonts I have?
- fadein110
draw the fucker and drop it on
- boobs0
Well, I was wrong. The wordmark thing shows that glyph in every font, even though that glyph is not in every font.
So I still don't know how to find it.
- dbloc0
is it for web or print?
- i_monk0
Every character in Unicode has an assigned name. Open your Character Viewer and type "hexagon" into the search at the top right:
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WHITE HEXAGON
Unicode: U+2B21, UTF-8: E2 AC A1Click on the white hexagon and it will show you each Font Variation on your system (lower right corner). Click them one at a time and the space above will show it enlarged, with the source font below.
On my computer I have White Hexagon in STIXGeneral Regular, and – of course – Apple Symbols.
- boobs0
Ah!
So I did that, and that works!
I have it in the same two fonts as you.
- boobs0
Still shining over this triumph!
- sofas-1
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016…
Proposal to add HEBREW YOD TRIANGLE as name of GOD to ISO/IEC 10646