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by Razengan 2399 days ago
By the way, for those on macOS, Apple recently introduced a huge set of icons/symbols that you can resize like any other font and use anywhere within text (in macOS) or images (iOS).

Just copy and paste the symbols like any other emoji, from the SF Symbols app:

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

Not only you can use them as is in your final app, these are absolutely great in UI mockups and even placeholder game sprites.
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kitsunesoba 2398 days ago
I’m getting massive use out of Symbols in my Apple platform personal projects, where they’re already a huge time saver but I never thought to use them in this context. Great comment!
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Razengan 2398 days ago
It should look like this: 􀈂 􀈒 􀈖 􀈠

https://i.imgur.com/b1T6p9r.png

Of course they will appear like blank squares on most webpages and iOS, but you can copy those squares back to the symbols in native macOS text fields.

It's a little inconsistent; in iOS/tvOS/watchOS/Catalyst apps you have to use `Image(systemName:)` but it's not available on macOS, where you have to copy the symbols from the SF Symbols app into regular text, like emojis.

Apple, why?

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crazygringo 2398 days ago
That's crazy, I had no idea.

It seems like it could almost be used as an alternative to Font Awesome... but while they're obviously intended for use in private apps on Apple platforms, there's no indication I can find you're allowed to export/subset them to your own webfont to use on any website.

Not that I assume Apple would search/care in practice, but it would be cool if it were officially sanctioned.

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