chose Type 2 Charstrings, which is a vector graphics format that Adobe created for PostScript. This works because there are many ways to draw glyphs on a screen. You start by choosing between Papyromaniac, Verdanta, and Proggito and face off against enemies like Helvetikhan and Scourier. has harnessed the power of ligatures to create a choose-your-own-adventure-style turn-based game that pokes fun at both Pokemon and various typeface names. Where’s the last place you’d expect to be able to play a game on your computer? The word processing program? Image editor? How about your text editor? That’s right - you can fight your Fontemons in any program that makes use of fonts, because mad genius has created a game that exists entirely within a single Open Type font file. Posted in News Tagged font, glyph, unicode Meanwhile if Unicode sparks your interest, we’ve given it a close look in the past.
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Hackaday readers never cease to amaze us with the breadth of their knowledge, ingenuity, and experience, so we think it’s not impossible that among you there may be people who will turn and pull a dusty computer manual from the shelf to give us the story behind this elusive glyph. Mystical cult symbol? Or perhaps fiscal growth in an economy in which time runs downwards? Either way, when its lineage has been traced into the early 1990s with no answer to the question it appears that there may be a story behind it. XKCD featured it as a spoof “Larry Potter”, but as ’s analysis shows it’s proving impossible to narrow down where it came from. U+237C ⍼, or the right angle with downwards zigzag arrow, is a mysterious Unicode symbol with no known use and from an unknown origin.
With so many disparate character sets having been brought together to make the Unicode standard there are plenty of unusual characters to choose from, and it’s one of them that has examined in detail. We have so many Unicode characters to play with that there’s a fascinating pursuit in itself in probing at the obscure corners of what can be rendered on screen as a Unicode glyph. For anyone old enough to have worked with the hell of multiple incompatible character sets, Unicode has been a liberation a true One Character Set To Contain Them All.