osx 10.14 Mojave - search for glyph in font book for SF Pro

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osx 10.14 Mojave - search for glyph in font book for SF Pro

I'm trying to search thru the extended characters / icons / glyphs in SF Pro (Apple iOS font) to find some particular icons. Previous versions of OSX I swear had a way to search thru the characters by keyword, but I can't find it on 10.14

Is there a way to search for a glyph in Font Book on 10.14? If not, what other options/tools do I have to find particular icon-font glyphs?

Attached is a screenshot of what I see in Font Book from the exhaustive "Repetoire" screen but there's too many to scan. I'm looking to search thru it.

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Posted on Jan 9, 2020 2:50 PM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Jan 14, 2020 9:20 AM in response to 808WaysToDie

For items with a U+ number, you can find the glyphs and which fonts have them via Character Viewer (Edit > Emoji and Symbols). Go to the gear where at top left and select customize and then Unicode so you can search via the numbers or the name.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-emoji-and-symbols-on-mac-mchlp1560/10.14/mac/10.14

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 14, 2020 10:59 AM in response to 808WaysToDie

808WaysToDie wrote:

Now how can I filter it to the SF Pro font?

The bottom right pane, labeled "font variation", shows all the fonts which have a character. Unfortunately it's a manual process to see whether a particular font is there.

There is an app called Ultra Character Map which works somewhat differently, it might be worth checking to see if it helps meet your need.

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VikingOSX

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Jan 14, 2020 11:40 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Earlier today I saw a note from the vendor that displayed that date range in my previous post, so I thought the product was out of development. Not so.

PopChar X v8.9 is the minimum version needed for Catalina compatibility and it is 29.99€ ($33.40) at current exchange rates.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 9, 2020 8:36 PM in response to 808WaysToDie

When you mouse over one of those, does anything come up beyond the glyph number? I think only Unicode characters have names which you can search on, and they would have a U+ number attached to them.

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