There's and for 'odd' mana symbols.

But no purple :(

Having six or seven options for frame color and mana symbol is probably wise... especially for people who want to make a game that isn't quite Magic. I kind of wish there was an easy way to flip on a tab that had a pile of non-standard options... though, I know, practically, that would require a lot more work for such a tangental subject.

I assume the purple frame is easy enough. The purple mana symbol isn't so simple. Alex didn't make the symbols, right? They come from a database... probably belonging to Wizards. If that's the case, this very humble suggestion is tantamount to requesting someone to remake 50 mana symbols... or find a way to add symbols to someone else's database... or... you know, I don't code, but I assume that it's tricky.

That said, I would appreciate a purple, orange and yellow frame (and maybe gray, silver or brown, if there's a way to make it not look like artifact or lands) for non-Magic related projects I have in my head. I don't have anything in mind right yet... it just seems like a good idea to have the options at the bottom of the frame colour list... especially if it's an easy thing to code.

Hmm. As long as you don't want all the extra versions for hybrid mixes between all of those and all the existing colours, that's plausible. I'm happy to choose 4 shades of orange (frame, pinline, type bar, textbox); I don't want to have to also choose land background and define hundreds of "Hybrid red-purple, Land green-orange, Hybrid yellow-white" kind of options.

For the "mana symbols", I could add just random symbols like ★ ☸ ♦ behind fairly random coloured circles.

(In the meantime, the colourless frame is slightly purply-tinged, because it's Eldrazi-inspired.)

That would be very cool, Alex. I don't know why I didn't think to use HTML characters myself for alternate symbols, but that makes a lot of sense.

May I suggest that you skip the yellow frame because MaRo has said that it'd cause problems since Magic already uses a yellow/gold frame for multicolored cards, if you end up doing this.

How about linking to your own "custom" mana symbol?

Ie. You would be able to define your custom symbol that you could use in mana costs and such within the "context" of your own set.

Say, like this: http://magicseteditor.sourceforge.net//smile/magic/pmana.gif

You mean as requested in Allow Custom Symbols?

Yeah, Allow Custom Symbols is the request for that.

In the meantime, Unicode does allow you to insert quite a variety of black-and-white symbols into card text and costs. Maybe one of 🐚 ۞ ༓ ࿂ ⌛ ⌾ ⍟ ⍾ ⎈ ☀ ☊☋ ⚛ ✦ ✪ ✬ 〄 🅾 ㈰ ㈬ ㈪ ㈫ ㈯ etc might serve your purposes for now?

Yeah, it having it's own request is understandable.

Idk man, those look pretty bad when you place them in the mana cost slot of the card (without the background circle they aren't instantly recognizable as mana costs IMO), but is nice as far as placeholder mana cost icons go.

Ooh, I hadn't thought of using unicode symbols, that's a good idea. Although it would be a lot nicer if normal text displayed the same size as the mana cost (or if non-mana symbol text in the mana box made the whole thing display as text, not symbols).

I think I suggested it before, but it would be really nice to get just three or four more symbols like , so you can use different ones if needed[1].

Having user-customisable ones would be a bonus, but harder to implement and more rarely really needed.

[1] And I think this is just me, but I happen to dislike because to me it looks like , an unspecified cost, not just a new symbol.