{"id":5108,"date":"2025-02-04T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T17:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2025-02-04T12:54:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T17:54:37","slug":"find-a-unicode-character-via-quick-sketch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/find-a-unicode-character-via-quick-sketch\/","title":{"rendered":"Find a Unicode Character via Quick Sketch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Unicode_characters\">155,063<\/a> Unicode characters. A lot of that is stuff from other languages, but there is still a large amount of randomly useful characters like arrows and symbols and whatnot. There are <em>so many<\/em> that even if you find good lists, it&#8217;s hard to search and sort. I like Benjamin Milde&#8217;s idea, <a href=\"https:\/\/shapecatcher.com\/index.html#\">shapecatcher<\/a>, that lets you draw what you want and tries to find it for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Need an arrow that points up and to the left, that also has a circle around it? I actually assumed there <em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em> one, but there totally is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"971\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/up-and-left.png?resize=1024%2C971&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5109\" style=\"width:411px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/up-and-left.png?resize=1024%2C971&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/up-and-left.png?resize=300%2C284&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/up-and-left.png?resize=768%2C728&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/up-and-left.png?w=1312&amp;ssl=1 1312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 155,063 Unicode characters. A lot of that is stuff from other languages, but there is still a large amount of randomly useful characters like arrows and symbols and whatnot. There are so many that even if you find good lists, it&#8217;s hard to search and sort. I like Benjamin Milde&#8217;s idea, shapecatcher, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[39,268],"class_list":["post-5108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-typography","tag-unicode"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/up-and-left-1.png?fit=1312%2C1244&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5111,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions\/5111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}