Unicode pictograms to mark progressively rising values
For Ace Maths I searched for unicode icons to mark progression: show that youโre getting better. Since I found a lot of different options (from simple sparklines to a huge list of animals), Iโm collecting them in this article.
- sparkline:
โโโโโโ โโโโ - available images:
-โ โ โฎโโฃโขโandโ๐โโ(these should display correctly in most browsers) - nature getting bigger:
๐โ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ - luck, healing, and balance:
โ๐โฎโโโฏ - signs getting worse:
โกโ โโกโ โขโฃ - age/education images:
๐ง๐ง๐ง๐๐ง๐ง - birds getting bigger and faster:
๐ฃ๐ค๐ฅ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆข๐ฆฉ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ - pictographs getting more active:
๐ผ๐จ๐โ - dice:
โโโโโโ - transport getting faster:
๐ถ๐๐ผ๐ดโท๐๐๐๐โ๐ - animals getting faster and bigger:
๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ฆค๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆข๐ฆฉ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐
To find more, see Wikibooks: Unicode: List of useful symbols and Wikibooks: Unicode/Character_reference/1F000-1FFFF.
To get better unicode support in LaTeX, see the packages utfsym (Provides various Unicode symbols) and ucs (Extended UTF-8 input encoding support for LaTeX).
The print version (PDF) shows how the latex export looks with
pdflatex and \usepackage{utfsym}\usepackage[graphics]{ucs}.