On 4 Jun 2010, at 10:47, William_J_G Overington wrote: > I noticed the use of colours other than black and white in several groups of > emoji.
No, you have noticed the use of the strings ASCII RED and GREEN and BLUE and ORANGE in some UCS character names. > What I find interesting is that colours other than black are often > represented by line hatching of the Petra Sancta type in the example glyphs. I used standard European hatching as found in ordinary books on British and Irish heraldry. > Most of them seem to follow Petra Sancta style, yet a few do not. Because I did not reference Silvester Petra Sancta or Marcus Vulson de la Colombière. > > For example, U+1F34E RED APPLE and U+1F34F GREEN APPLE do follow Petra Sancta > style. This is standard British and Irish hatching for Gules and Vert. > U+1FD47 GREEN BOOK and U+1FD48 BLUE BOOK do follow Petra Sancta. This is standard British and Irish hatching for Vert and Azure. > U+1FD49 ORANGE BOOK has an interesting example glyph. This is standard British and Irish hatching for Tenné. You omitted to mention Purpure and Or. > In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatching_system there is a graphic of the > shadings and I found that clicking on the graphic leads to a page for the > graphic from where I was able to download a full resolution 908 by 509 pixels > version. I then displayed the file in Microsoft Paint at 8x resolution. Zounds, William, who do you think needs to know this kind of detail? Not a one of us, I am sure, cares about the number of pixels in the Wikipedia graphic. > The hatching used in the example glyph is indeed one of the several hatchings > shown for orange. For Tenné. > The document does not purport that Petra Sancta hatching has been used. No, it does not. > Yet if the example glyph for U+1F536 LARGE ORANGE DIAMOND is interpreted as > if a Petra Sancta hatching had been used, it would be blue. > > If the example glyph for U+1F537 LARGE BLUE DIAMOND is to be interpreted as > if a Petra Sancta hatching had been used, it would not be the usual hatching > for blue. There are, it appears, incorrect glyphs for the orange and blue diamonds in the chart. This will need to be taken up with the editorial committee. > I noticed also that if the example glyph for U+1F530 JAPANESE SYMBOL FOR > BEGINNER if interpreted as hatched in Petra Sancta style is yellow and green > (or maybe gold and green?). Or and Vert. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
