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Thanks Kiri!Now I'll jazz up my reviews thanks to you!
Andrea (Catsos Person) is a Compulsive eBook Hoarder wrote: "Thanks Kiri!Now I'll jazz up my reviews thanks to you!"
Awesome - glad you can get some use out of them, Andrea :) Can't wait to see what you use ♥
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Carol ♔Type, Oh Queen!♕ wrote: "Thanks Kiri! :)"You're welcome, Carol! Hope they come in handy for you :)
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You're welcome, Carol! Hope they come in handy for you :)"
I'm sure they will! Are you a graphic designer by chance? :)
Carol ♔Type, Oh Queen!♕ wrote: "I'm sure they will! Are you a graphic designer by chance? :)"I was a web designer before I became a farmer, so sometimes I still have to let my creative monster loose for a minute!
Um... WOW! I'd totally like to use this. Thank you!
Here are some symbols and designs that you can add to your GR name, reviews, updates, etc. The easiest way is just to copy them from here and paste them where you want (this is where I got the moon and star for my name):α Alpha
⚓ Anchor
≈ Approximately
⚛ Atom
➳ or ► or ◄ or ▲ or ▼ or ◁ or ▷ or △ or ▽ or ↕ or » or « Arrow
ℬ Other Letters
♝ or ♗ Bishop
εïз or ஐ Butterfly
⚇ or ⚉ Button
✔ Check Mark
☑ or ☒ Checked
♔ ♕ ♖ ♗ ♘ ♙ ♚ Chess Pieces
○ or ◎ or • Circle
⌚ Clock/Watch
☁ Cloud
☕ Coffee/Tea
© Copyright
☽ or ☾ Crescent Moon
☪ Crescent Star
✠ or ♰ or ✞ or ✟ or ✙ or ✤ or ✣ or ✥ Cross
♔ or ♚ or ♛ or ♕ Crown
☢ Danger
⌘ or ₪ or ஓ or ๑ Decoration
℃ or ℉ Degrees
✦ or ♦ or ♢ or ✧ or ◆ or ◈ Diamond
⚀ or ⚁ or ⚂ or ⚃ or ⚄ or ⚅ Dice
… or • Dots
é
☹ or ☺ or ☻ or ⍥ or ⍤ or ⍨ or >:( Faces
♀ Female
⍝ Finger
♨ Fire
⚑ or ⚐ Flag
⚜ Fleur de Lis
❀ or ✿ or ❁ or ❃ Flower
⚢ or ⚣ glbt
≥ Greater than or equal to
½ Half
⚒ Hammer & Pick
☊ Headphones
❤ or ♥ or ♡ or ❥ or ❣ or ღ or ❦ or ❧ Heart
⌛ Hour Glass
۩ House
∞ Infinity
⌨ Keyboard
♞ or ♘ Knight
≤ Less than or equal to
✉ Letter
〠 Light bulb
ϟ Lightning
▬ or ≡ Lines
♂ Male
⚤ or ⚥ Marriage
♭ or ♮ or ♯ Musical Symbols
♪ or ♫ or ♬ or ♩ Notes
Ω Omega
♟ or ♙ Pawn
☮ or ✌ Peace
✒ Pen
✎ or ✐ or ✏ Pencil
☎ or ☏ or ✆ Phone
✈ Plane
☚ or ☛ or ☜ or ☞ or ☝ or ☟ Pointing
¼ Quarter
❞ or ❝ Quotes
® Registered Trademark
♜ or ♖ Rook
☹ Sad face
⚖ Scales
✄ or ✂ or ✁ Scissors
☭ Scythe
♣ or ☘ or ♧ Shamrock
☸ Ship's Wheel
≈ Similar
☠ Skull
☺ or ☻ or ツ Smiley
❅ or ✵ or ❇ or ❈ or ✲ or ✳ or ❁ or ❄ or ❉ or ❋ or ❊ or ✺ or ✱ Snowflake
☃ Snowman
♠ or ♤ Spade
★ or ✯ or ✪ or ✡ or ✩ or ✫ or ✰ or ✭ or ✬ or ⁂ or ✶ or ✴ or ✲ Star
☀ or ☼ or ❂ or ✹ or ✸ or ✷ Sun
卐 Swastika (actually backwards)
⚔ Swords
☎ or ☏ or ✆ Telephone
™ Trademark
◢ or ◣ or ◥ or ◤ or △ or ▽ Triangles
Ψ Trident
☂ Umbrella
♒ Wavy lines
♿ Wheelchair
✍ Writing
✗ or ✘ or X
☯ Ying Yang
Wow, Tadiana! There are a lot of cute ones, and a scary one, too... :S♕ is cute!
♕Critterbee ❀ wrote: "Wow, Tadiana! There are a lot of cute ones, and a scary one, too... :S♕ is cute!"
Scary: the skull, the swastika or the danger sign? :)
I got a chuckle out of the old-fashioned telephones.
Those are so cool, Tadiana - thanks for sharing :) I never knew there were so many!
I remember you sharing these with me awhile back. We couldn't find a cat. ;) Lots of fun ones here.
You're welcome, Kiri! Thanks for yours as well!Debbicat, I have very vivid memories of that evening when we were searching for a Unicode cat! They have them, all right, but GR refuses to recognize them. When I tried to put the cat face in a message or post it would delete the entire post from that point on. Ugh, so frustrating. So it's best just to stick with the list I posted here, unless you're in the mood for some trial-and-error experimentation with Unicode images.
Experimentation time:#1: 🐱
#2: 🐱
#3: 🐱
Hey, look, Debbie, I think it worked!?!
Now I'm all excited and I'm going to try some more!!🐈
😸
😺
Woohoo!
🐎🐕
🐶
🐅
🐯
... okay, I need to get back to work.
🐦 🌻
💮
🐝
🍻
🐞
This is way more fun than work.
Wow! You are amaze balls !!!!! And super cool. Lemme try it out. :)
I love ALL the animal ones btw.
Is that a little tiger?
Yes, the last two in post #19 are tigers. Also, wow, when I switched my browser from IE to Google they all start showing up in color. How cool is that??
In Firefox all your animals and insects are in colour, too :)
☊ ♪🐞 ☁ 🐝 ♒ These are my faves ♥ But I want to use them all lol
This calls for more:🌄
🌅
🌞
🌛
🌝
🌠
🌟
✰
👑
BTW here is the page I've been using to run searches for these images: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unico... Type in whatever you want to search for, click on search, and then look for the results that have an image at the end of the line, under Preview. You can copy and paste that image.
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Way to go Kiri! I. Need to get my laptop open to try them out.
Awwwe. Love the bunnies.
ok..I'm using firefox and they are not in color. Lemme try google chrome. I could see them all in color from my phone earlier.
Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ wrote: "🐎🐕
🐶
🐅
🐯
... okay, I need to get back to work."
work..smurk
I can't get the tiger one to work on my username. I'll keep playing with it, When I copy and paste it the symbols of the code display rather than the image. I tried it using chrome and firefox.
Enchantress debbicat wrote: "I can't get the tiger one to work on my username. I'll keep playing with it, When I copy and paste it the symbols of the code display rather than the image. I tried it using chrome and firefox."🐱
Well...it works here in the comments. Hmmm...
Hmm, it may be that only the first set I posted will work in usernames. I wish I could tell you what the difference is!
The cats work in comments and on the review section of a book. Just can't get them to work on my username.
Back to the butterfly and peace sign for you!
Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ wrote: "I wish I could tell you what the difference is!"Enchantress debbicat wrote: "The cats work in comments and on the review section of a book. Just can't get them to work on my username."
Usernames on a website can be set up to censor certain unicode (the little codes that make up the pictures) so that it's harder for people to have unsearchable usernames (like, ones that are all in symbols, or ones that use symbols to spell out obscene stuff.) I don't know if that's why it doesn't work on GR, but it could be that.
Also, comments & reviews here handle html, so they are better equipped to handle complicated unicode than the field your name goes in.
^^ Kiri is my new GR BFF. I am impressed with the level of knowledge it took to write that post!BTW I just switched over to my iPad after dinner to check this thread, and Safari gives me the best images for Unicode yet! It's funny how the images look totally different on Safari.
Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ wrote: "Back to the butterfly and peace sign for you!"LOL
Kiri Fiona wrote: "Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ wrote: "I wish I could tell you what the difference is!"Enchantress debbicat wrote: "The cats work in comments and on the review section of a book. Just can't get them to work..."
I am super impressed!!!! I know so little about html and all of that. ;-)
Tadiana has helped me a lot in the past. You are good gal tadiana.
I never use Safari on my ipad. I use google. I'll have to check that out tho. On my phone and ipad I almost always use the app. And you can't do much with the app. It's really annoying.
Yep, let me go put my butterfly and peace signs back. ;-)
And maybe 10 or so different styles for doing your own 1-5 ratings in reviews:
And then a few 0-10 ratings elements as well:
They're really easy to use, you just copy and paste the code you want into your own document (like MS Word, etc) and then copy and paste as needed, where you want them in your reviews. Alternatively, you can download the whole spreadsheet to use as you want.
This link will take you to them, to use however you want. Ratings Elements are on the first tab along the bottom, Quote Elements are on the second tab, Header Elements are on the third. The picture quality in the excel sheet isn't very good, so I've included a sample of each element below - so you can decide if you want anything. Enjoy ♥ ♥
P.S. If you follow the instructions and it's still confusing, let me know and I'll try and help you out :)
P.P.S. Mods- If this isn't OK, I'm happy to remove it :)
SAMPLES:
1-5 Ratings
0-10 Ratings
Quote Snippets
Header Elements