cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2399016

Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast hosted by one of the cult that Elon took from his replies.

  • electromage@lemm.eeEnglish
    29·
    11 months ago

    A character is nothing without a font though. When you look at a character on-screen, it’s being rendered in a specific font. Typing that Unicode character in “Special Alphabets 4” produces the image in question.

    • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      The character (𝕏) doesn’t actually doesn’t exist in the font, because supporting arbitrary Unicode characters in every font would be absurd. Paste it into the font preview and it renders a black square.

        • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          Of course there are fonts that support every character, the characters themselves would be useless if they couldn’t be rendered by anything. I’m only saying that this specific font doesn’t support the character.

          • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            Oh, I see, I misread. That’s interesting. So it looks like it’s typically just a glyph.