Re: Missing geometric shapes

From: Jean-François Colson <jf_at_colson.eu>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:14:10 +0100

Le 07/11/12 20:08, Christoph Päper a écrit :
> Jörg Knappen:
>> The reason is that I just was trying to show the rating on a webpage
>> using the popular of 1 to 5 starts including half-coloured starts
>> just using
>> UNicode characters.
>>
>> BLACK AND WHITE STAR
>> WHITE AND BLACK STAR
> In Dingbats, characters are mostly coded for their appearance, i.e.
> like you suggest. Would it be more useful to have some or all of the
> following, in a more semantic block?
>
> HIGHEST RATING *****
> HIGHER RATING ****+
> HIGH RATING ****
> MID-HIGH RATING ***+
> MEDIUM RATING ***
> MID-LOW RATING **+
> LOW RATING **
> LOWER RATING *+
> LOWEST RATING *

You missed
  NEGLECTABLE RATING +

> NO RATING
>
> This way font designers could choose more freely how to display
> ratings, e.g. by thumb or arrow up or down, partially filled disc,
> tomato, five stars in the same space as 1 star …
>
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