I decode, you decode, let's all decode some Unicode
It?s part typographic Wikipedia ? and part glyph palette on crack.
The
decodeunicode
project is collaborative information gathering, powered by a
typographically inclined community. Developed at the University of
Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany,
decodeunicode
facilitates the documentation, research, and understanding of the
98,884 distinct graphic characters defined in the
Unicode standard. Sound geeky? Well yeah, it kinda is.
Basically, the
decodeunicode site lets you browse
through every single one of those characters. Fonts that come
pre-installed with modern operating systems can contain literally
thousands of characters and symbols, many unfamiliar to the average
user. How does your computer display Kanji ideographs and complex
Arabic ligatures? Where can you find the
currency symbol for
Mongolia? When would someone even use an
ogonek
anyway? Answers to these types of questions are what this project
plans on providing.
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