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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: ddrfraser1 on Mon, 29 March 2021, 20:22:39
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All the other modifiers have an icon so…
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Maybe a box with a diagonal line through it, with the top-left-half empty and the bottom-right-half shaded dark. It could indicate that hitting the escape is removing you from the state that you're in.
Or is that already taken?
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There… is an escape icon: ⎋
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esc_key
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Awesome! I wondered if it might already exist. Good knowledge :D :thumb:
Here is it blown up.
[attach=1]
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Now the question is, many of us prefer icons, how many of you actually want this on your keyboard, perhaps in some thing like an icon kit?
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so far every set i bought came with that icon on the escape key as standard, so i do not know how you never saw it?
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Not many people are familiar with the ISO/IEC 9995-7 symbols. Outside the Escape symbol on enthusiast kits, there are few keyboards that have any ISO symbols.
For instance, can you identify what this below means?
⎈
And can you tell what these below are for? I think you can guess two uses, but can you tell which one is for what?
⇭⇬
This one below is closer to a symbol that is used on Mac keyboards, but not exact:
⎇
7bit's keycap kits used the Emergency Exit "running man" symbol on Escape keys, which I thought quite fitting. The Japanese symbol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_sign#/media/File:PublicInformationSymbol_EmergencyExit.svg) is slightly different from the European (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_sign#/media/File:Fire_exit.svg) though. Maybe that's why there's no Unicode symbol for either of them.
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so far every set i bought came with that icon on the escape key as standard, so i do not know how you never saw it?
Guilty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Edit: there it is on the BIIP MT3 set. So I guess I’ve seen it and never noticed. Welp, I have learned something today.
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The Granite keycap set provides that symbol for ESC.
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Well, I only know about it because the timeclocks where I work are the ole Kronos 4500, which has the escape key icon.
(http://assets.suredone.com/1926/media-photos/sd02837-kronos-4500-time-clock-system-pn-8602800-501.jpg)
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The Granite keycap set provides that symbol for ESC.
The SA Industrial set was the first time I ever saw that icon. It came with the icon modifier set I bought. Leave it to the last remaining US keycap manufacturer to clue us in to international symbols. :)
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Not many people are familiar with the ISO/IEC 9995-7 symbols. Outside the Escape symbol on enthusiast kits, there are few keyboards that have any ISO symbols.
For instance, can you identify what this below means?
⎈
And can you tell what these below are for? I think you can guess two uses, but can you tell which one is for what?
⇭⇬
This one below is closer to a symbol that is used on Mac keyboards, but not exact:
⎇
7bit's keycap kits used the Emergency Exit "running man" symbol on Escape keys, which I thought quite fitting. The Japanese symbol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_sign#/media/File:PublicInformationSymbol_EmergencyExit.svg) is slightly different from the European (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_sign#/media/File:Fire_exit.svg) though. Maybe that's why there's no Unicode symbol for either of them.
This page shows the symbol usage.
https://jdebp.uk/FGA/iso-9995-7-symbols.html (https://jdebp.uk/FGA/iso-9995-7-symbols.html)
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This page shows the symbol usage.
https://jdebp.uk/FGA/iso-9995-7-symbols.html (https://jdebp.uk/FGA/iso-9995-7-symbols.html)
You missed the point, which was that few people recognise any of the ISO symbols.
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Surely this one?
[attach=1]
https://www.maxkeyboard.com/custom-r4-escape-backlight-cherry-mx-keycap.html