Has it ever happened that you vaguely remember a character, a font or a shape but you don’t exactly know what it was called? How do you find out? You can’t exactly Google it, can you? The answer here would be a tool like ShapeCatcher. Just draw the shape (it doesn’t matter how bad you [...]
Textual representations and symbols on our computer use a variety of characters. To explore these characters, you need a source that displays them and provides details such as encoding, comments, and location. Unicodinator is precisely such a source. Unicodinator is a web tool that lets you visually navigate through Unicode blocks and codepoints 0000 through [...]
Do you know that you can type in symbols in your tweets? Even though you are only allowed 140 characters in a single tweet, you can still spice it up with icons or pictures using different symbol characters. Twitter Symbols is a Twitter app that allows you to easily add these symbol characters in your [...]
There are several reasons why one may need to insert symbols on a webpage and when trying to obtain the proper code for each symbol, UnicodeTable is one of the most comprehensive resources. The tool contains code for literally thousands of symbols from various categories and topics. You can browse through them by category or [...]
Are you wondering how to spice up your next Facebook status message? If yes, then you should consider adding special symbols in the status. You can get these Facebook-compatible special symbols from the site “Facebook Symbols.” Facebook Symbols is a simple to use website. The symbols can also be used anywhere else in Facebook where [...]
When you are in a foreign land, you understand billboards and signs through the symbols they have on them. Certain symbols and signs are universal and communicate the same meaning. To get such symbols and use them in any project, you should pay a visit to The Noun Project. The Noun Project is a free [...]
Inserting fancy characters and symbols in your text always helps. However, besides a few common characters, most people don’t know the code for many of these. NiceEntity is a web resource that indexes hundreds of special characters along with their HTML and Unicode details. You can browse through categories like Punctuations, Accents, Shapes & Symbols, [...]
If you have ever found yourself baffled by crazy looking symbols that are supposed to represent something electrical, ElectricalWhat is one site you should bookmark. It is a very useful guide of all standard electrical symbols and what they represent. You can search for a device using keywords, browse through the various categories or use [...]
Tweets with a lot of text can be boring and hard to read. One way to make them fun is to use emoticons and other symbols to decorate them. JoyLy is a free service that lets you do that with ease. Using JoyLy, you can insert over 100 Unicode characters into your tweets with a [...]
If you come across a symbol or a sign and don’t know what it means, head straight to Symbols.com. It is a web resource where you can easily look up symbols and read their meanings. The site currently lists around 2500 western (both modern and ancient) symbols organized in 54 categories. There are four ways [...]