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Re:What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-... by sandgraham on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:56PM (#49884220)
Reminds me of Urbit sigils. They had a really cool system for generating unique visual identities. The write up is one of my favorite design/tech articles:

https://urbit.org/blog/creating-sigils.

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Re:What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-... by dcl on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:56PM (#49885617)
no scroll bar :(
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Re:What Heraldry and Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-... by kazinator on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:10PM (#49887233)
That is conscious; the page references oracle bone script / seals as being close to their concept, and kamon as being even closer.
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