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I am drafting diagrams where I need a lot of different arrow tips to indicate different types of directionality. Currently I am using a mixed set of libraries, which I mainly found through detexify. The result is that I am using mathmode arrows like \leftrightarrow, or \leftrightarrows from the amsmath package. If I am not able to find an arrow tip, I make my own such as:

\newcommand{\dentedarrowicon}{
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.50]
    \draw [-] (1,1) -- (2,1);
    \draw [-] (2,1) -- (1.7,0.7) -- (2.5,1) -- (1.7, 1.3) -- (2,1) ;
    \fill (2,1) -- (1.7,0.7) -- (2.5,1) -- (1.7, 1.3) -- (2,1) ; 
\end{tikzpicture}
} 

This will draw enter image description here

Instead of scrapping around for different arrow tips, I would like to have unified library which I could apply. More importantly I need a naming convention for arrow tips. The "dentedarrowicon" is a term I made up and still, in my opinion, is a bit descriptive. This changes however when I start describing enter image description here as open arrow with tbar

\newcommand{\openarrowwithtbaricon}{
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.50]
    \node (datanode2)[regular polygon,regular polygon sides=3, shape border rotate=270,scale=0.5]  at (2,1) [draw,thick, fill=white] {};
    \draw [-] (1,1) -- (datanode2);
    \draw [-] (1.7,0.7) -- (1.7,1.3); 
\end{tikzpicture}
}

Is there an extensive library with arrowtips I could use, with a standardized and descriptive naming convention? I am aware of a related answer, where the TikZ library is mentioned. It is a great answer, but I still need a lot more types of arrowtips and I am not sure if an open triangle 60 is a descriptive name.

Anyone knowing either an extensive library of arrowtips or a standard naming convention I can use to draft my own?

Andra
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