how can I type the scissors icon
How can I type the scissors icon.
Imac
Try shift 3 in the Windings font.
Also Monotype Sorts has 4 scissors
There are lots of differnt pictographic fonts available, only you know what exactly will suit you.
Peter
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It is in the Zapf Dingbats font, but may also be found in the Unicode set via:
Menu > Edit >Special Characters…
Peter
I cannot find the keystroke for it. I've tried every key with option or shift
Interesting. Now when you select Zapf Dingbats it throws you into Unicode anyway.
Menu > Edit >Special Characters… > View: Code Tables > 00002700 Dingbats > 2701 through to 2704 are scissors
Peter
Linda289 wrote:
I cannot find the keystroke for it. I've tried every key with option or shift
In modern Unicode systems like OS X you cannot type dingbats with keystrokes, you need to use the Character Viewer.
Tom
Why then does it show Zapf Dingbats as a font in the fonts list?
That seems muddled thinking.
Peter
None of the scissor icons in special charactors are as nice as they used to be. There used to be many more choices
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
Why then does it show Zapf Dingbats as a font in the fonts list?
That seems muddled thinking.
Muddled would be to switch fonts to get different characters in a real Unicode system. Instead you switch keyboard layouts or use the Character Viewer. Same for Greek or Russian or Arabic...
That could of course work with an old legacy Zapf Dingbats that maps its symbols to Latin, maybe MS Word still has one of those for backwards compatibility.
Tom
There are lots of pictographs in many fonts not available in Unicode, to make Zapf Dingbats an exception and then proffer it up as a font choice as well, seems muddled to me.
Anything that does not do the expected is by my definition muddled.
Peter
Wow - it worked
PeterBreis0807 wrote:
There are lots of pictographs in many fonts not available in Unicode, to make Zapf Dingbats an exception and then proffer it up as a font choice as well, seems muddled to me.
The Dingbats were put into Unicode in 1993 already. They are in a separate font because I guess the people who make things like Aria, Helvetica, Monoco, etc. have never felt it was their job to put these characters in their font.
Linda289 wrote:
Wow - it worked
You may wish to make sure that these characters will still be present in whatever is the final use of your document is. For example if you copy/paste you Wingding scissors into another app you could well wind up with "#" instead. On the other hand, a real dingbat is preserved, here for example: ✄
how can I type the scissors icon