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last-resort-font
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unicode-org / last-resort-font
last-resort-font
Last Resort Font
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Observed mentions: 2020-10-09 02:05:36 UTC to 2021-04-25 20:14:08 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Oct 5 | 2020-10-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Oct 12 | 2020-10-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 19 | 2020-10-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 26 | 2020-10-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2 | 2020-11-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 9 | 2020-11-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 16 | 2020-11-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 23 | 2020-11-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 30 | 2020-11-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 7 | 2020-12-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 14 | 2020-12-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 21 | 2020-12-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-12-28 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 28 | 2020-12-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 4 | 2021-01-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 11 | 2021-01-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 18 | 2021-01-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 25 | 2021-01-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 1 | 2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 8 | 2021-02-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 15 | 2021-02-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 22 | 2021-02-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 1 | 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 8 | 2021-03-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 15 | 2021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 22 | 2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 29 | 2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 5 | 2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 12 | 2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 19 | 2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesISismaildonmez·Apr 25, 2021
Not sure if 1:1 as the macOS one but Unicode organization open sourced a last resort font last year: https://github.com/unicode-org/last-resort-font
In Last Resort Font (2002)