Unicode pictograms to mark progressively rising values
For Ace Maths I searched for unicode icons to mark progression: show that you’re getting better. Since I found a lot of different options (from simple sparklines to a huge list of animals), I’m collecting them in this article.
- sparkline:
▕▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█▏ - available images:
-✅⚠☮⚛☣☢✌and☘𝄞⚔✈(these should display correctly in most browsers) - nature getting bigger:
🌊☁🌈🌀🌋🌍🌠🌌 - luck, healing, and balance:
☘🍀☮⚕⚛☯ - signs getting worse:
☡⚠⚔⚡☠☢☣ - age/education images:
🧒🧑🧍🎓🧙🧝 - birds getting bigger and faster:
🐣🐤🐥🐧🦆🦢🦩🦜🦉🦅 - pictographs getting more active:
🌼🎨📚⚔ - dice:
⚀⚁⚂⚃⚄⚅ - transport getting faster:
🚶🏃🛼🚴⛷🚓🚑🚁🚄✈🚀 - animals getting faster and bigger:
🐁🐀🦔🐢🦗🦋🐍🐟🐬🐈🐒🐐🦘🦤🐦🦜🦆🦢🦩🦉🦅🦄🐉
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}.