😊Unicode: Emoji, Symbols, and more

Symbols and more

What is Unicode?

Unicode is a technology standard for representing characters. It includes over 144,000 symbols from 159 different languages, as well as various symbols, emoji, and a few non-visual characters and formatting codes. The standard is managed by the nonprofit Unicode Consortium. This chapter focuses less on the technical implementation and more on resources for interesting symbols to use in your projects.

Emoji

📙 Emojipedia — 😃 Home of Emoji Meanings 💁👌🎍😍Emojipedia

Emojipedia guide to Emoji

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.htmlunicode.org

Full Emoji List from the Unicode Consortium

Recommended Emoji Libraries

There are various emoji libraries available for use, whether open source or free for non-commercial purposes. Here are our recommendations:

https://twemoji.twitter.com/twemoji.twitter.com

Twemoji

OpenMojiOpenMoji

OpenMoji

Noto Emoji - Google FontsGoogle Fonts

Noto Emoji

sensa | emojisensa.co

Sensa's free emoji set

Symbols

SYMBL (◕‿◕) Symbols, Emojis, Characters, Scripts, Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and the entire Unicodeunicode-table.com

Non-visual characters

What is a non-visual character? The idea seems fairly strange, but there are a few special characters which were useful in the earlier days of computing. One of these is the "bell character" which emits the sound of a bell 🔔 rather than printing a character to the screen.

Bell characterWikipedia