Blue Alphant

Character Entity Reference Chart and Font Support Verification
What is Blue Alphant?
Blue Alphant is a Chrome extension that functions as an easy-to-use, highly visual Unicode Character Entity Reference Chart. It helps developers, designers, and anyone interested in using Unicode to find the characters they need and verify font support on their devices.

Extension stats

Users: 39 ▼ -3
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 3.0 (Last updated: 2019-08-15)
Creation date: 2019-08-14
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 1.36M

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Extension summary

Blue Alphant is a reference tool for developers, designers, and anyone interested in using Unicode for any reason. Blue Alphant not only functions as an easy-to-use, highly visual Unicode Character Entity Reference Chart, but also allows you to quickly verify which characters are supported by the installed fonts on your desktop, tablet, or mobile device.

Blue Alphant allows you find the general type of character you want in the menu, filter through the related characters to narrow down the search, and visually scan through the remaining characters to find exactly what you need. Each character tile includes the name of the character and its codepoint, which you can use to convert to HTML, Java, and C++ friendly codes.

Updates 1.1 through 1.4:

  • Corrected typos
  • Added new questions and answers in the help menu
  • Corrected a minor design issue

Update 2.0 through 2.2:

  • Updated existing writing systems for Unicode Version 11
  • Updated symbols, punctuation, and emoji for Unicode Version 11
  • Corrected a bug that caused some menu items to disappear past the edge of the dropdown menu on some brands of large curved monitors.
  • Added new writing and numbering systems for Unicode Version 11 (Hanifi Rohingya, Old Sogdian, Sogdian, Dogra, Gunjala Gondi, Makasar, Medefaidrin, Mayan Numerals, and Indic Siyaq Numbers)
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User reviews

As you get older, things start to leak from your fading memory -- like Unicode values.... Hurrah for someone actually devising a good-looking, and easy, way to search for them, in Chrome. My day has officially been made! Thank you, Sheila!
by Stephen R Ward, 2017-11-15
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Blue Alphant does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Blue Alphant has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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