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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Crissov

Lasso emoji

Open Crissov opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments
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A Lasso is a characteristic tool used by cowboys (and cowgirls) 🤠. Like a Noose #74, it’s actually just a Rope twisted and knotted in a special way. Similar to the Magic Wand #160, Bucket, Spray Can and Pipette, the Lasso has a canonic metaphorical meaning as an icon in graphic editing software: selecting a group of objects.

Crissov avatar Feb 21 '17 09:02 Crissov

see also #74 Gallows/Noose

A Rope emoji was proposed and ended up as a 🪢 Knot emoji, because vendors are afraid to add anything that could be used to visualize suicide.

Crissov avatar Apr 29 '21 08:04 Crissov

The best visual match is 📿 (Prayer Beads); others include 𓍯 𓍼𔗫 𓍲 𓍱 ౿ Ꮼ Ꮘ➰➿യ🪢, and for the concept of a Free-Form Select tool (à la MS Paint), when not shown as a lasso, I'm pretty happy with this Braille version ⢼⠮ which compliments ⣏⣹, and others I found include ✂️🆓🕸✨☆⚝⛤⛥⛦⛧⚛🫥🇫/🇸◌⁛⁘

Now I don't mean to spurn 👢⚙ this idea, but here's an example of substituting Prayer Beads: 🤠📿 🐂

Anyways, just throwing this out there so folks don't have to wrangle down any alternatives.

1j01 avatar Sep 04 '23 02:09 1j01