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About Shapecatcher
Shapecatcher lets users draw a rough shape in a browser canvas and searches the Unicode character set for symbols with a similar outline. It is aimed at people who need a specific glyph or box-drawing character but cannot recall its name or code point.
Strengths
- Useful when you know what a symbol looks like but not its name or code point
- Simple drawing-based search interface, no signup needed
Limitations
- Matching is based on shape similarity, so results can be approximate
- Web-only tool with no offline or CLI version
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree web tool.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- shapecatcher.com
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application
- Best suited for
- Draw a symbol in the browser to find the closest matching Unicode character
- Categories
- Terminals
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus Resource Hub (ASCII & Terminal Art); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.