took me a while, but its working now: https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/#2F8F and https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/#884C

yeah that’s a more utilitarian approach mine is more about exploring and navigating the unicode space visually

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

though going through every comment to promote it feels a bit… unnecessary

I agree, you did a great job on the design, especially the border around the grid, I really like it. Also, just checked out your homepage, it looks really, really good

The only way that I can think of to respond to that question is this: https://charcuterie.elastiq.ch/data/fonts/fonts.css

exactly

ported my random glyph generator to this method using pytorch timm and... it works! very cool

I’m a native French speaker, and “charcuterie” doesn’t really carry that negative meaning in everyday use. It’s very commonly used to mean cold cuts / prepared meats.

The butcher is un charcutier, and the shop is une boucherie. La charcuterie refers to the food itself, usually cured or prepared meats (pork, cooked, smoked, dried, etc.). So the name works the same way it does in English.

I'm French too :-)

I get why people use French words to name products in english, but une charcuterie, it's somewhat gross and messy. It's Gaulois in a sense. To me it clashes a lot with the look of the website which is more like Tron-ish.

You wouldn't see a charcutier in Tron, would you?

Fair enough. I didn’t go for cultural or visual accuracy when naming it, I just wanted something loosely tied to characters / unicode, and the pun clicked for me. I still like it a lot.

great idea, I think I will do both

done!

should be less boxes now!

oh right, good catch

fixed

True, thanks for the feedback

One future project idea suggestion. Can we combine these characters to create new ones just like Gboard allows us to intelligently combine emojis to create new complex emojis.

It does

It only seems to work for some subset of CJK characters. I haven't been able to figure out why some work and some don't.

For instance 叱 and 明 both seem to fail in the same way: U+1F996 T-REX in the upper left corner and the URL fragment fails to update.