What if GS Unicode wasn't just made of pixels? What if it had a better, more appealing width/height ratio? What if it utilized the new FS inventory? And what if I wasn't way too ambitious/crazy in making this? No idea, but I'm eager to find out!
I've split this font series up by plane since font files have a technical limit of 65,535 glyphs.
Things that are planned but not (fully) implemented yet are italicized.
This font (Plane 0) should also serve as the hub for most major updates (like those relating to the series as a whole).
Links to planes:
Plane 0: [THIS FONT]
Plane 1: here
Plane 2
Plane 3
(No Unicode characters exist in Planes 4 through D as of U15.0)
Plane E: here
Plane F: here
Plane 10: here
PUA assignments:
E000~E07F - Tengwar
E080~E0FF - Cirth
E100~E14F - Engsvanyali [Engsvanyáli]
E150~E1AF - Kinya
E1B0~E1CF - Ilianore
E1D0~E1FF - Syai
E200~E26F - Verdurian
E270~E28F - aUI
E290~E2BF - Amman-Iar
E2C0~E2CF - Streich
E2D0~E2FF - Xaini [Xaîni]
E300~E33F - Mizarian
E340~E35F - Zirinka [Zírí:nka]
E360~E37F - Sarkai
E380~E3AF - Thelwik
E3B0~E3FF - Olaetyan
E400~E42F - Niskloz [Nísklôz]
E430~E44F - Kazat Akkorou [Kazat ?Akkorou]
E450~E46F - Kazvarad
E470~E48F - Zarkhand [Zarkhánd]
E490~E4BF - Rozhxh [Røzhxh]
E4C0~E4EF - Serivelna
E4F0~E4FF - Kelwathi
E500~E51F - Saklor
E520~E54F - Rynnan
E550~E57F - Alzetjan
E580~E59F - Telarasso
E5A0~E5BF - Ssuraki [Ssûraki]
E5C0~E5DF - Gargoyle
E5E0~E5FF - Ophidian
E600~E62F - Ferengi
E630~E64F - Seussian Latin Extensions
E650~E67F - Sylabica
E680~E6CF - Ewellic
E6D0~E6EF - Amlin
E6F0~E73F - Unifon Extended-1
E740~E76F - Unifon
E770~E77F - Solresol
E780~E7FF - Visible Speech
E800~E82F - Monofon
E830~E88F - Dni [D'ni]
E890~E8DF - Aurebesh
E8E0~E8FF - Tonal
E900~E97F - Glaitha-A
E980~E9FF - Glaitha-B
EA00~EA9F - Lhenazi
EAA0~EAFF - Wanya
EB00~EB3F - Orokin
EB40~EB5F - Standard Galactic
EB60~EB9F - Braille Extended-1
EBA0~EBDF - Cistercian Numerals
EBE0~EBEF - Lapointe Hexadecimal Numerals
EBF0~EBFF - Martin Hexadecimal Numerals
EC00~EC2F - Cylenian
EC30~EC6F - Syrrin
EC70~ECEF - Graflect
ECF0~ECFF - Whitaker Hexadecimal Numerals
ED00~ED3F - Deini
ED40~ED7F - Niji
ED80~EDAF - Iranic
EDB0~EDDF - Tassarunese
EDE0~EDEF - Zese
EDF0~EDFF - Grawlixes
EE00~EEFF - <unassigned>
EF80~F2FF - Latin Extended-1
F300~F3FF - Combining Diacritical Marks Extended-1
F400~F4BF - Symbols and Punctuation Extended-1
F4C0~F4EF - Ath
F4F0~F4FF - Number Forms Extended-1
F500~F5FF - Greek Extended-1
F600~F6FF - Cyrillic Extended-1
F700~F71F - Hebrew Extended-1
F720~F7BF - <unassigned>
F7C0~F7FF - Kana Extended-1
F800~F87F - Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows Extended-1
F880~F89F - Font Specifics
F8A0~F8CF - Aiha [Aiha (Kesh)]
F8D0~F8FF - Klingon
Additional PUA assignments can be found in the Plane F and 10 fonts.
Feel free to recommend PUA assignments!
Also, it's more than likely I won't know every script well enough that there won't be any mistakes. If/when I make a mistake, please tell me and I'll do my best to fix it!
Public transport & travel related icons. Most of these are designed to leave room above/below themselves for text while still fitting into a square canvas. So, they can more easily be used to create actual program icons, signs, etc.
This was my first icons font so it doesn't conform to the 10x10 standard I established later for fonts like Donjonikons...
A - Airplane
B - Bus
C - Cable Car
D - Dirigible
E - Escalator
F - "Phone" Sign
G - Gondola
H - Helicopter
I - "Parking" Sign
J - "Lost & Found" Sign
K - "Luggage Claim" Sign
L - Locomotive
M - Maglev/Monorail Train
N - "Infirmary" Sign
O - Ocean Liner
P - APC/Armored Car
Q - Bus (front view)
R - Rickshaw
S -Sailboat
T -Trolley
U - Riverboat/Ferry
V - Van
W - Taxi
X - Boxcar
Y - Bike/Scooter
Z - Zeppelin
Designed for those members who want inspiration, it could guide them when they need ideas on which to base a font.
Use this like a font: close your eyes and type a 'word' with at least 7 letters.
If you can touch-type: forget it; you'll need to be quite unstructured in order to get a good variation of letters every time you want inspiration ;) If you want some uncertainty -bad spelling will be very helpful here;)- you could write the 'name' of the minute when you decided to get inspiration for a new font , inUpperCase ... then follow this with one of your names in LowerCase. But for fun and better chance at not getting the same word every time you need inspiration I suggest you just hit different keys and then look at the line of glyphs ;)
Just remember: use UpperCase to write the first part of this word, the LowerCase to write the other part of the word. Look at the [second or] fourth and the [penultimate or] third before last letter of your 'word'.
The UC will give you an 'image'. Your font will transmit the meaning illustrated by this letter (in the widest sense).
The LC gives the type of look your font should have. You now have 2 guides/ideas/starting points which influence the kind of font you make.
Remember that the UC should make you look at concepts, invisible messages and your own experience or lack of 'ken', as well as the visible things in the images I drew.
To express that differently:
Your font design is guided by a main theme (based on the UC) and a way to present it/a style of expression (based on the LC).The font will be influenced a little or a lot by each UC 'image'; you adjust the look of your font according to the "feeling"/a memory/a dream or wish/an experience/lack of familiarity that you have about what that which my playful pixel illustration represents.
The presentation of the font, the style, how the eye slides across to absorb information or spends time to investigate the beauty or quality of every glyph, is determined by the LC. Combine these two aspects from UC and LC, that"s what your font will convey through the shapes of th glyphs.
In my 'comment' below I give you a few ideas of what could be linked to each of the UC letters; it's up to your areas of study, experience, interest, and the time you want to use for designing and building your fonts, which -if any- of the proposed words and concepts I mention will be the one(s) you want to combine with the type of presentation you found in the LC letter.
Choose a good name for your font, it's probably a good idea to have a name that isn't the keyword I gave in the UC list -- I can imagine that those key words have long been taken by font designers for their fonts.
Note: the "INSPIRED FONT" is still in development; when I have more illustrations for objects, situations, feelings etc or styles of presentation (I am open to suggestions!) I will try to find a suitable design to add to the glyphs as there are still a few empty slots in the Basic Latin set ;)
..:*:.. Have fun ..:*:..
A highly exclusive language used by people on Bysonce Island, Planet Ashr in my video game Endless Sea of Stars. This one is used for private documents and old government records, and its brother language Eudastiphos Hand is used for public court documents.
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Calystiphos Hand is much simpler than its brother language, despite looking much more complicated. Each glyph refers to highly specific concepts and so it is most used to record time-tested, factual information rather than stories or fiction. However, these glyphs can still be considered as runes, as each one is host to whole mysteriums of information and idiomatic knowledge which have been associated with it.
Bysoncians use a base-8 system of numeracy. 9 would thus be written as 81, 10 as 82, etc. There is no numeral 9.
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Calystiphos is the Ashrian god of siroccos. The simplest way to put it is to say that he represents the "yin" of the pantheon.