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Crissov / unicode-proposals

Proposals for new characters to encode and canonic character sequences to register
https://crissov.github.io/unicode-proposals/
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Lasso emoji #273

Open Crissov opened 7 years ago

Crissov commented 7 years ago

A Lasso is a characteristic tool used by cowboys (and cowgirls) 🤠. Like a Noose #74, it’s actually just a Rope twisted and knotted in a special way. Similar to the Magic Wand #160, Bucket, Spray Can and Pipette, the Lasso has a canonic metaphorical meaning as an icon in graphic editing software: selecting a group of objects.

Crissov commented 3 years ago

see also #74 Gallows/Noose

A Rope emoji was proposed and ended up as a 🪢 Knot emoji, because vendors are afraid to add anything that could be used to visualize suicide.

1j01 commented 10 months ago

The best visual match is 📿 (Prayer Beads); others include 𓍯 𓍼𔗫 𓍲 𓍱 ౿ Ꮼ Ꮘ➰➿യ🪢, and for the concept of a Free-Form Select tool (à la MS Paint), when not shown as a lasso, I'm pretty happy with this Braille version ⢼⠮ which compliments ⣏⣹, and others I found include ✂️🆓🕸✨☆⚝⛤⛥⛦⛧⚛🫥🇫/🇸◌⁛⁘

Now I don't mean to spurn 👢⚙ this idea, but here's an example of substituting Prayer Beads: 🤠📿 🐂

Anyways, just throwing this out there so folks don't have to wrangle down any alternatives.