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minus-squareTheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-22 days agoFunny ⸎ Edit: Is it just me, or do the examples of this symbol in writing look nothing like each other, nor like the Unicode symbol they adopted?
minus-squareJayDee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoI mean, beyond just being a marker denoting the end of a work, it seems like it was the scribe’s own little flair - like a visual signature. I guess it being generified in Unicode is the only real tradeoff you could make.
minus-squareJustAnotherKay@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoLooking at the examples, I think a signature or watermark is almost definitely the best way I would describe a coronis
Funny ⸎
Edit: Is it just me, or do the examples of this symbol in writing look nothing like each other, nor like the Unicode symbol they adopted?
https://xkcd.com/2606/
I mean, beyond just being a marker denoting the end of a work, it seems like it was the scribe’s own little flair - like a visual signature.
I guess it being generified in Unicode is the only real tradeoff you could make.
Looking at the examples, I think a signature or watermark is almost definitely the best way I would describe a coronis