I am looking for character which could replace image icon, for example like ✘ (xmark) and ✔ (tick), maybe some symbol to "draft" or "new message"?
EDIT:
Fav: ❤
Draft: ✍
Message: ✉
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A:
stackoverflow.com uses "●" (U+25CF BLACK CIRCLE) for badges.
There are tons of useful characters in Unicode:
Joachim Sauer
2009-08-27 16:10:33
On my current system, U+231B and U+2328 aren't showing as you document here, and the rest are really bad looking.
Mark Ransom
2009-08-27 16:27:37
U+231B doesn't work here (Ubuntu 9.04). U+2706, U+260F and U+270E are indistinguishable, leaving only U+2709, U+260E and U+2328 and use.
Macha
2009-08-27 16:36:24
Viewing this answer on Windows (Win7, Chrome) I see that most icons look ugly and the last two are missing. It seems Ubuntu has the whole Unicode-range-coverage down a lot better than a standard Windows installation.
Joachim Sauer
2009-08-27 22:41:36
Windows XP / Firefox3.5, and only U+231B is not visible, though they all look bad at that size. Increasing the font size would probably help that though.
Matthew Scharley
2009-09-02 12:14:21
That actually is not the whole list. You should go to unicode.org for the whole list.
Kyle Kochis
2009-08-27 17:23:56
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Look at http://unicode.org/charts/symbols.html for some ideas. I'm not sure what would work for "draft" or "new message" but there is a lot to choose from there.
Kyle Kochis
2009-08-27 16:17:50
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Some symbols might not be supported by the font selected into the browser page. Even if they are, a lot of them look really bad at small sizes. You're better off using an image if you can.
Mark Ransom
2009-08-27 16:25:58