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Was recently looking for emojis to indicate success/failure in a CLI and for a checkmark, you have these options: ✔️✅☑️
I figured, I'd take the one with green background for best visibility.
Now for an X-emoji, we've got this one: ❌
But isn't there one with a background, too?
Well, yes, there is, but: ❎
(That's displayed with a green background on most systems, in case it's showing differently for anyone.)
You know, what would be revolutionary?
If we could apply our own colors to text symbols. Similar to how there's different skin colors for emojis, but you could set any color.
I know what you're saying, we'd need to come up with a whole system for having colors in texts, that's never going to happen, and I hear you, but a man can dream, you know.
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/colrv1-fonts/