1187798
Published: 31st May, 2008
Last edited: 21st April, 2010
Created: 31st May, 2008
The Braille system was developed by Louis Braille in 1821.
Mew Wins' Morse Code Alphabet (International) inspired me to make a Braille FontStruction. I have only drawn the basic, or Grade 1, version of the Braille alphabet here. (There is a contracted version of Braille, known as Grade 2, and another version which uses an 8 dot grid. In addition, there are special Braille characters for accented letters, but they are not all standardized, so for now I have stayed away from them.)
Special characters: There are no capital letters in Braille. Instead, there is a symbol for "capital letter follows," which I have placed in the "at" (@) symbol. The "number follows" symbol is usually placed in the space for the "number" symbol (#), so I've followed that convention.
In addition, I have copied the symbol for each letter into both the upper and lower case spaces, to make it easier to type something up (or select an existing text file) and switch the font to Braille (Basic).
840793
Published: 1st June, 2008
Last edited: 21st April, 2010
Created: 1st June, 2008
Clone of Braille (Basic). I swapped the hollow circles for small dots.
Special characters: There are no capital letters in Braille. Instead, there is a symbol for "capital letter follows," which I have placed in the "at" (@) symbol. The "number follows" symbol is usually placed in the space for the "number" symbol (#), so I've followed that convention. In addition, I have copied the symbol for each letter into both the upper and lower case spaces, to make it easier to type something up (or select an existing text file) and switch the font to Braille (Basic) Alternate.
This is a clone of Braille (Basic)
15039215
Published: 5th June, 2008
Last edited: 21st April, 2010
Created: 5th June, 2008
The original Morse code was created for Samuel F.B. Morse's electric telegraph in the early 1840s, but spread to radio communications (and beyond) beginning in the 1890s. (It is now known as American Morse code, and rarely used.) International Morse code was created by Friedrich Clemens Gerke in 1848, and standardized at the International Telegraphy congress (Paris) in 1865.
Other current Morse Code FontStructions have encountered word- and letter-spacing issues, and I tried to work around this by stacking the dots and dashes vertically. The result reminds me a bit of Mayan numerals, but hey, as long as it still reads as Morse... I wonder what the ITU would say about this? One thing's for sure... it saves a lot of horizontal space.
In each character, the dots and dashes read from top to bottom rather than from left to right. Punctuation has the longest series of dots and dashes in International Morse Code (six), so this number determined my cap height. :-) The shorter characters all hang from this imaginary line.
Missing characters: Please note that the !, & and $ symbols are not defined within the ITU recommendations for International Morse code, so they are not part of this typeface. On the other hand, the @ symbol was approved for use in 2004, so I've also included the underscore sign I found at two different online sources. (The underscore symbol has not been formally approved by the ITU, but it could come in handy if you have to transmit an e-mail address using Morse code!)
Other characters: As with my two Braille FontStructions, the uppercase and lowercase versions of each character are the same. Also, the opening and closing parentheses share the same symbol, which will also show up if you type brackets instead of parentheses. Last but not least, there are a very few diacritics included (the ones I was able to verify).
40397818
Published: 7th April, 2012
Last edited: 26th February, 2014
Created: 6th April, 2012
Modernized and Simplified Baybayin/Alibata.
Notes:
- I put the Letter "NGa" on the "X", both Uppercase and lowercase.
- Use the lowercase "e" or "i" to make a dot above the consonant, and use "o" or "u" to make a dot below the consonant.
- To put a cross sign below the consonant, use "`" or "+".
- Use space or "|" to separate lines/sentences with 2 vertical lines.
- Numbers and other punctuation marks are not used by ancient filipinos, I just fill those characters, just in case you need them.
29713153055
Published: 5th February, 2012
Last edited: 15th October, 2012
Created: 4th February, 2012
Pixel font with lower right corners cut. Best used with font size 24.
8322676
Published: 16th March, 2009
Last edited: 3rd November, 2014
Created: 15th March, 2009
The font used in the classic Famicom RPG MOTHER. I noticed there aren't many video game themed fonts here, so I figured I'd go ahead and create some.M
25215140226
Published: 31st December, 2011
Last edited: 24th October, 2022
Created: 31st December, 2009
Here’s Noptical as it was meant to be. Two years in the making, still an ugly font!
But look: better spacing, 1333 glyphs, all latin variants you could wish for (including Vietnamese), Greek, Cyrillic, Braille, Yijing hexagrams, the not yet Unicode-encoded Rouble sign, interrobang (after a design by Adien Gunarta), even a tombstone!This is a clone of Noptical
761985
Published: 24th May, 2008
Last edited: 22nd June, 2009
Created: 24th May, 2008
Typeface based on Adrian Frutiger's visual studies about relations between lines, from his book "Signs and Symbols".
1352018639
Published: 13th August, 2014
Last edited: 20th August, 2014
Created: 24th December, 2013
A Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana) typeface that mimics roman lower case shapes.