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Dingbat Dictée

Type · January 27th, 2011 · OSP

Recipe for teaching Unicode poetry to students of all ages:1

  1. Print out listings of the following Unicode blocks: Dingbats (2700–27BF), Miscellaneous Symbols (2600–26FF) and eventually Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (2B00–2BFF). It is important you include the descriptions in the language of your choice. Below are German, English and French sample files.
  2. Contextualize the Dictée by showing this picture for example.
  3. One person selects a number of descriptions he or she finds interesting
  4. Read out the number, followed by it’s description
  5. Allow participants a set time to come up with a proposal that fits the description. Depending on the medium of choice, rhythm can vary: pencil up to 30 seconds; cutting or digital drawing: up to 10 minutes.
  6. Compare results of participants to each other and to official Unicode blocks

unicode_german
U2600_FR.pdf
U2700_FR.pdf

  1. Previously tested in Brussels and Kiel. [↩]

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    • 7 Comments ↓

    • 1. nitrofurano

      Jan 28, 2011 at 3:07 am

      Polsku Regula typeface needs an update on accented characters! :)

    • 2. Paulo

      Feb 5, 2011 at 1:21 am

      my very humble, mistakeful and naive accent and ligature contribution to the Polsku typeface: http://pastebin.com/ccS3a21P

    • 3. OSP

      Feb 6, 2011 at 11:43 am

      Wow!!! Thank you Paulo :-D

    • 4. Paulo

      Feb 6, 2011 at 5:28 pm

      you’re welcome – this were just a fast edit, for the case you may want to replace on the website – anyway, the accents are still disproportionate and maladjusted, but i think they work relativelly fine for now – anyway, i’m trying to contact the original author, Sebastien Sanfilippo (if you have a closer contact with him, please let me/us know, and please let him know about this version as well! thanks!)

    • 5. OSP

      Feb 7, 2011 at 9:13 am

      Hey Paulo,

      Seb is here with us in Brussels :-) He is also very happy to find out about your additions! I think he answered your e-mail yesterday and asked to add yourself to the fontlog?

      F

    • 6. Paulo

      Feb 9, 2011 at 1:02 am

      yes, i replied his mail, and added some more stuff – but all i were about to do were very in a rush, and not very acuraced as well, since i were not the original author of the typeface, didn’t test it enough (well, i think Dave Crossland will pull my ears after seeing these fixes! :D ) – my concern were this typeface is, even looking great, is still incomplete for an usage in these webfont titles here, and i tried to do an effort on this typeface being a bit less incomplete… – as far as i can, i’ll try to work better on this typeface, and maybe improve better the accents and ligatures i added – but anyway, there are lots of missing characters i have no idea how to drawn them (like 0-9) in the A-Z-a-z visual context…

    • 7. Pierre Huyghebaert

      Feb 18, 2011 at 1:27 pm

      La Cambre, 28/01/2011, merci Ludi :

      ☔ ☙ ☰ ♰ ♬ ⚕ ❃ ❅ ❝

      PARAPLUIE SOUS LA PLUIE
      CŒUR FLORAL COUCHÉ À DROITE
      TRIGRAMME DU CIEL
      CROIX SYRIAQUE ORIENTALE
      DEUX DOUBLES CROCHES RAMÉES
      BÂTON SERPENTAIRE D’ESCULAPE
      GROS ASTÉRISQUE RAYONNANT LARME
      FLOCON DE NEIGE À TROIS FOLIOLES TRANSPERCE
      275D GUILLEMET DE FANTAISIE EN FORME DE GROSSE VIRGULE DOUBLE CULBUTÉE

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