FLICKR: A Group for Manicules?

[dewline]

A little typographical device, often used, not really noticed. And I just found out from the Weekly Typographical podcast that this group - devoted to the device - exists:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/610612@N21/

Meanwhile, let me test something here:

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(Just a little stealing-back of a symbol with that last one, and since the emoji options on this version of Mac OSX allow the colour variations now...except that things get weird when the text appears in GMail notices of replies to this entry...



See?)

Comments

Well, heck...

[thetimesink]

I learned something new about typography this morning. Thank you!

That came through cleanly. ...and as a text string? Wait...

Ah! They need a manicule friendly font?

Re: Well, heck...

[dewline]

They need one that works on every OS, apparently.

And the skin-colour modification on the last one I tried displays on GMail in a way I didn't expect. I'll try to display that later. Possibly as a modification of this entry.