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Andrew's Babelmap [1] is one of those applications that, if you do anything text or typography related, is basically required owning. With a donation, of course
by TheRealPomax 4y ago
Andrew's Babelmap [1] is one of those applications that, if you do anything text or typography related, is basically required owning. With a donation, of course.
[1] https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html
- virtualritz 4y agoI'm usually ok with what macOS Character Viewer offers. I am rarely on Windows and didn't know about BabelMap. It looks like it fills the gap there. I work mostly on Linux so I hacked a Character Viewer clone in Rust over a weekend recently[1]. It just does what I need but I'm planning to add features to it if I find them useful. So I am curious: what functions does BabelMap offer that you can't live without, especially as a typographer? [1] https://github.com/virtualritz/glyphana https://github.com/virtualritz/glyphana
- arm 4y agoSince you mentioned macOS, it would be remiss of me to not mention UnicodeChecker: https://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/index.html https://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/index.html
- lpghatguy 4y agoI am a big fan of unicode.link[1] for inspecting existing strings, searching for codepoints, and comparing how strings get encoded. [1] https://unicode.link/ https://unicode.link/