I've been looking to use unicode for more iconography, and I haven't been able to find any appropriate unicode for a "view" icon. None of the "eye"-related unicode that I've found works on the web.
Does anyone know of any unicode icons that would be appropriate for a "view" icon?
You might struggle to find a unicode character to represent "view", but you'll find plenty of web font based icon sets with an eye or view concept.
For example, Font Awesome – the icon web font used in Twitter Bootstrap – has an icon called 'icon-eye-open' that might do the trick. Font Awesome is licensed under CC-BY-3 (you can use it for free as long as you credit them with a link to their site in your CSS or HTML source code), and it supports IE7 or higher.
This question was asked in 2012. Browsers in 2020 now support a much wider range of Unicode characters. These three Unicode characters all render in my browser (Ubuntu 19.10, latest FF and Chrome):
🔎): 🔍): 👁): I ran a browser compatibility test with popular browsers (and a 2nd) to render this answer:
The maginfying glasses work fine everywhere except very old Windows and IE.
The eye works on all modern browsers but not pre-Windows-10 or older Android phones.
