Unicodes in UI development


Simpler Designs

When developing UI elements (for example an Undo button for a game) unicode may be a good addition for your toolkit. Instead of making a circular arrow image you can just paste in a character. I made a list of unicode characters which is worth to take a look at:

List of characters

Undo arrow: 🗘
Undo arrow 2: 🔁
Undo arrow 2: 🔂
Restart: 🔃
Restart 2: 🔄
Motd arrow: ➧
Motd arrow 2: ▶
Crosshair: ⯐
Radio button: 🔘
Picture: 🖻
Text: 🖹
Information: 🛈
Coins: ⛁
Military star: ✪
Military star 2: ✱
Close: ∅
Close 2: ✖
Close 3: ⊗
Deny: ⊘
Holy hand grenade: 🜭
Drone: 🜊
Crown: 🜲
Fingerprints: ⛆
Gears: ⛭
Laptop: 💻
Floppy: 💾
Wheel: ✇
Wheel 2: ⎈
Globe: 🌐
House: 🏠
Back: ↩
Full block: █



Other helpful websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters
http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_arrows.html

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