glyf

Look up Unicode glyphs by name (fuzzy search) or codepoint. Blazing fast.

Usage

glyf <query>                # auto: hex/codepoint -> lookup, else fuzzy search
glyf -c <codepoint>         # exact codepoint lookup (279f, U+279F, 0x279F)
glyf -s <query>             # force name search
glyf -p <codepoint>         # record a pick in frecency db
glyf -l                     # list all entries
glyf -b <block>             # filter by Unicode block name
glyf -C <cat>               # filter by general category (Lu, Nd, L*, P*)
glyf -S <source>            # filter by source (unicode, nerdfonts)
glyf -I <set>               # filter by Nerd Fonts icon set (dev, fa, cod)
glyf --list-blocks          # list all Unicode blocks
glyf --list-categories      # list general categories
glyf --list-sources         # list all sources
glyf --list-icon-sets       # list icon sets with descriptions
glyf -t <n>                 # typo tolerance (default: 2, 0 = exact)
glyf -f <format>            # output format: plain, pretty, tsv
glyf -n <n>                 # max results (default: 50)
glyf --sort <field>         # sort by: relevance (default), name, codepoint

Frecency

Frequently picked codepoints float to the top of empty and fuzzy searches. Records are persisted to $XDG_DATA_HOME/glyf/frecency.bin

Lua module

Build with cargo build --features mlua --release:

local glyf = require("glyf")

-- search: fuzzy name search with filters
glyf.search("lua", { limit = 10, sort = "name" })
glyf.search("", { block = "Arrows", category = "So" })
glyf.search("heart", { source = "nerdfonts", icon_set = "fa" })

-- lookup by codepoint string: U+0041, 0x279F, A, etc.
glyf.lookup("U+1F600")
glyf.lookup_name(codepoint)       -- name for a codepoint
glyf.category_of(codepoint)       -- general category
glyf.block_of(codepoint)          -- Unicode block name

-- list metadata
glyf.blocks()                     -- all Unicode blocks
glyf.categories()                 -- all general categories
glyf.sources()                    -- all sources (unicode, nerdfonts)
glyf.icon_sets()                  -- all icon sets with descriptions

-- frecency
glyf.record(0x1F600)              -- record a pick
glyf.frecency_get(0x0041)         -- get frecency count
glyf.frecency_path()              -- path to frecency db file

Neovim plugin

glyf.nvim - floating-window picker with live search, @tag filtering, and frecency.

Planned

• Emoji (emoji-data.txt + CLDR annotations keywords)
• Reverse lookup for multi-character strings

Data

• Unicode character database from unicode.org
• Blocks: Blocks.txt
• Emoji: emoji-data.txt, CLDR annotations
• Icons by Material Design