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The superuser logo has a square bracket and a curly bracket. is there a keyboard or ascii character for the "eye" dot?

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  • It's no worse than the "How do I create ASCII smiles" thread! Oct 28, 2010 at 14:50
  • @Wil Wellllll.... I guess so. Hmmmm. On second thought it might not be particularly meta-ish.
    – DMA57361
    Oct 28, 2010 at 14:55
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    I have edited it to be more question-ish. I think this will be a good thread, who can create the logo closest to the real one! Oct 28, 2010 at 14:56
  • Hmm, this won't qualify for migration anymore. Nice edit @Wil
    – Sathyajith Bhat Mod
    Oct 28, 2010 at 15:35

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The horizontal spacing is off, and obviously the curly bracket doesn't have the vertical asymmetry of the real icon, but how about the following?

[}

Here's a smaller version, which has better horizontal spacing, assuming you can see it:
[}

However, this is a bit of a cheat as I'm using a unicode dot ( • ) and then making it superscript and italic...

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    most excellent; the small form is quite close! Nov 14, 2010 at 5:18
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The best I got is [·} which was done with the 'middle dot' (Alt+0183) I don't think the spacing will allow you to actually create the logo just the ASCII chars

Also, if you take a close look at the logo, the curly braket is different on top and bottom. There's a forehead and a chin

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You just need to find the right font ;)

 Homizio

Homizio by Álvaro Thomáz

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[•} Super user

Ok - Kind of lame, I'll try to do better!

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I don't think the spacing would work regardless, its not possible to get the eye dot inside of the bracket the way it is in the logo.

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['}

or

['}

or

['}

is the best that I got.

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[}

(It's his day off, and he's lying in)

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[°}

It obviously depends on character sets and fonts. I'm sure there must be many Unicode characters that would serve that purpose.

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In Microsoft Word, it's possible to get somewhat close ;)

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[˙}

Closest I can get. [ + DOT ABOVE (U+02D9) (italic) + } Eye should probably be slightly lower and to the left, but whatever.

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