The first decision is to have a font that has all your necessary glyphs. And it looks like we have some possibilities to control it.
#Symbol glyphs android#
So, iOS will find the Apple Color Emoji font, Android will find the Noto Color Emoji font, etc. I ❤ Frontend īut what if the current font hasn’t any glyph that can render your UTF-8 symbol? OS tries to find any font that has that glyph. You can even paste it into your HTML as a Unicode sequence, not a symbol. Nikita Prokopov described it in his detailed article about emojis.Įvery symbol you use has its UTF-8 sequence. And that’s a huge problem if you have to style the title. If you choose a surface, the glyph can cover an area of the surface no larger than 10. For example, on Android and iOS it looks like emoji. When you cast this spell, you inscribe a harmful glyph either on a surface (such as a section of floor, a wall, or a table) or within an object that can be closed to conceal the glyph (such as a book, a scroll, or a treasure chest). If you have the title ’I ❤ Frontend’, it is rendered differently in different browsers on different operating systems. We were organizing ’Ya Love Frontend’ conference (Ya is for Yandex, but it sounds the same as ’I’ in Russian), and we used the UTF-8 heart symbol to make the title more emotional. They are also referenced in-game in Menu Guide tab, and they can be scanned from screenshots with the Camera Button. Last year I had an interesting task to make a heart symbol a part of a page title.