What Unicode character do you use in your website? (instead of image icons)

Question

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:

Answer 1

Look at http://unicode.org/charts#symbols for some ideas. I'm not sure what would work for "draft" or "new message" but there is a lot to choose from there.

Answer 2

I would suggest using custom font like https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome

You can also have svg/png version https://github.com/encharm/Font-Awesome-SVG-PNG

There are also other svg icons

1. https://github.com/iconic/open-iconic
2. https://github.com/outpunk/evil-icons
3. Pure css icons https://github.com/saeedalipoor/icono

For Material Design you have static svg icons https://google.github.io/material-design-icons/ and animated:

1. http://tympanus.net/Development/AnimatedSVGIcons/
2. http://tympanus.net/Development/IconHoverEffects/
3. http://tympanus.net/Development/AnimatedCheckboxes/
4. https://alexk111.github.io/SVG-Morpheus/

Answer 3

stackoverflow.com used to use "●" (U+25CF BLACK CIRCLE) for badges.

There are tons of useful characters in Unicode:

• ✆ U+2706 TELEPHONE LOCATION SIGN
• ✉ U+2709 ENVELOPE
• ☎ U+260E BLACK TELEPHONE and ☏ U+260F WHITE TELEPHONE
• ✎ U+270E LOWER RIGHT PENCIL
• ⌛ U+231B HOURGLASS
• ⌨ U+2328 KEYBOARD

Answer 4

← ↑ → ↓ ↔ ↕ ↖ ↗ ↘ ↙

just to name a few...

Answer 5

I am surprised no one has posted Unicode emojis yet:

Range U+1F600 - U+1F64F

Just some from the list:

Answer 6

Why not just peruse the whole list?