While playing with icon design last week I came up with the idea of horizontally flipping that character that’s used to indicate end-of-paragraph in word processing software. Turning it into a ‘P’. And it’s got elements of ‘I’ and ‘T’ as well, and carries associations with print and page layout, and writing.
The OSX ‘Character Viewer’ told me it is called a Pilcrow. I like that name. The Wikipedia ‘pilcrow’ entry provides some historical information.
I created an iPhone app icon and a favicon for the picklet-builder site.
Classy.
It’s called a ‘reversed’ pilcrow. Unicode = U+204B ⁋ reversed pilcrow sign. It’s been in use for a long time.
Just a friendly FYI.
Chris
Thanks, Chris. Do you know what it’s used for? The wikipedia entry for pilcrow mentions the unicode character, but nothing about it’s meaning. Just curious. Maybe it means ‘picklet’ now?