I built this proof of concept of a tool called https://text.makeup. It is meant to be a friendly Unicode explainer – meant not just for Unicode nerds, but nerds of any kind. Useful for debugging, but also learning.

You can go there now to play (much more fun on desktop!), but I also recorded a 5-minute video that explains it further.

I am curious: Does this feel like fun? Is it worth building out for real? What would you like to see in it if so?

Text makeup

@mwichary this is super cool!

I think many people would benefit from something like a trail map for exploring the data

@JoeGermuska Say more?
@mwichary sorry, i was on my phone. now that i look at it on desktop, the examples are probably close enough to what I was thinking of