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**VERSIONS**
1.0 - Initial
**COMING SOON**
2.0 - Foamemes and shidinn
3.0 - Shidinn extensions
4.0 - Lycian and old italic
5.0 - More cadexian and Meyziko
6.0 - Unused Armenian and hebrew
7.0 - Chit'de and spantty
8.0 - Emoji
9.0 - Karmeli and Latin abkhaz
10.0 - Lowercase unifon and OBZ
This is a clone of 8-bit AnthonistructVer. 1.0(Beta, 9.21.2021): 1st release
--------------(When to start adding Chinese characters)---------------
Ver. 2.0(Beta): I found an Expert mode, so I added some Kanjis(一, 亜, 咽 and etc.)
Ver. 2.01(2022.05.22, Beta): More extended latin A and Added 31 Kanjis
Ver. 2.02(2022.05.25, Beta): Completed Latin ext_A block
Ver. 2.03(2022.05.26, Beta): Added CJK symbols block
Ver. 2.04(Beta): Plan of adding 20 Kanjis and Fixing glyph bugs
Ver. 2.05(2022.07.10, Beta): Added some of KS X 1001 symbols
Ver. 2.06(2022.07.11): Added 59 glyphs of Kanjis
Ver. 2.07(2022.07.12):Added some of Latin Ext_B glyphs
Ver. 2.08(2022.07.13):Added 30 glyphs of Kanjis more Latin Ext_B glyphs
Ver. 2.09(2022.07.14):Completed Latin Ext_B block and Added 15 glyphs of Hanjis and Fixed some of Hanji glyph's Bugs
Ver. 2.10(2022.07.18):Completed Hangul Compatibility Jamo Block and Added some glyphs of Latin Extended Additional Blocks
Ver. 2.11(2022.07.24):Completed Basic Russian Cylliric letters on 'Cylliric blocks'
Ver. 2.12(2022.07.25):More glyphs on Latin Exteneded Additional Blocks
-(CJK Unified Chinese Character Simplified Chinese Character Addition Start Time)------------------------------------------------------------
Ver. 3.0(2022.09.8~12): Added 30 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.1(2022.9.20): Some of more Kanjis
Ver. 3.1(2022.10.2~7): Added 30 glyphs of Kanjis
Ver. 3.2(2022.10.20~22): Added some of more kanjis
Ver. 3.21(2022.10.30): Added 8 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.3(2022.11.4):Added 10 glyphs of Latin and 6 glyphs of Hanguls
Ver. 3.4(2022.11.10):Added 21 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.41(2022.11.22):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.41(2022.11.24):Added 15 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.42(2022.11.25):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.43(2022.12.17):Added 15 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.5(2022.12.10):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Modern Chinese
Ver. 3.51(2022.12.21):Added 5 glyphs of Cjk for Modern Chinese
Ver. 3.6(2023.03.13):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Modern Chinese
Added so far of unified Kanji(Chinese) counts:Total of 293 glyphs
--------------------------Plans----------------------------------
1. Completing JIS 1 level of Kanjis
2. Completing JIS 2 level of Kanjis
3. Completing JIS 3 level of Kanjis
4. Making 2,351 glyphs of Hanguls(10/2351)
5. Adding extended Latin glyphs up to 'Latin extended additional'
6. Completing basic Arabic blocks
7. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese'
8. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'BIG 5 Common Character Set'
9. Completing KS X 1001 symbols
10. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'Table of General Standard Chinise Character'
11. Completing 'Russian cylliric' block
12. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'Xim Sans' (Total of 17912 glyphs)
Still needs Kerning. WIP
See more:
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/719432/en_chyn
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1223033/at-kitay
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/190611/leterodoxi
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1684813/ouya-1
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1699935/skvorec-1
https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1933739/gyroscope-1-1-2
This is a clone of ONTHEBEATSee also:
Pixel Math
A simple remake of my original Brixel, but made to be monospace and 8x8
(-Currently being extended-)
I am going to expand this font. Why not, after all? It is my best work so far.
ALL BLOCKS UPDATED TO UNICODE 16.0!!
UNICODE BLOCKS INCLUDED:
Basic Latin
Latin Supplement
Latin Extended A
Latin Extended B
Latin Extended Additional
Latin Extended C
Latin Extended D
Latin Extended E
Latin Extended F
Latin Extended G
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IPA Extensions
Spacing Modifier Letters
Phonetic Extensions
Phonetic Extensions Supplement
Modifier Tone Letters
Ancient Symbols
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (only Latin, Symbols and Katakana)
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Cyrillic (Basic)
Cyrillic Supplement
Cyrillic Extended A
Cyrillic Extended B
Cyrillic Extended C
Cyrillic Extended D
(Anbur/Old Permic)
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Greek and Coptic
Greek Extended
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Ethiopic
Ethiopic Supplement
Ethiopic Extended
Ethiopic Extended A
Ethiopic Extended B
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Armenian (Would really appreciate feedback)
Hebrew
N'Ko
Georgian
Georgian Extended
Georgian Supplement
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllables
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllables Extended
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended-A
Cherokee
Cherokee Supplement
Ogham
Runic
Tifinagh
Lisu
Lisu Supplement
Phags-pa
Zanabazar Square
Mro
Old Italic
Phoenician
Carian
Lycian
Lydian
Gothic
Deseret
Shavian
Komi/Anbur/Old Permic
Elbasan
Osage
Pahawh Hmong
Toto
Old South Arabian
Old North Arabian
Adlam
Glagolitic
Glagolitic Extended
Old Turkic
Old Hungarian (Rovásírás)
Marchen
Buhid
Bamum
Kayah Li
Hatran
Yezidi
Caucasian Albanian
Miao
Masaram Gondi
Chorasmian
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Hangul Jamo
(only modern Hangeul for now, I am desperate for feedback here!)
Hangul Syllables (discontinued)
Hangeul Compatibility Jamo (only modern Hangeul for now)
Katakana
Katakana Phonetic Extensions
Kana Supplement (only Katakana)
Kana Extended A (only Katakana)
Kana Extended B
Small Kana Extensions (only Katakana)
Bopomofo
Bopomofo Extended
Yijing Hexagram Symbols
Vertical Forms
Small Form Variants
Tai Xuan Jing Symbols
Counting Rod Numerals
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (Only Jamo, Syllables, Latin Characters and months)
CJK Symbols and Punctuation (non-Han) (incomplete)
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Combining Diacritical Marks
Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement
Combining Diacritical Marks Extended
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols
Combining Half Marks
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General Punctuation
Supplemental Punctuation
Alphabetic Presentation Forms
Emoticons
Miscellaneous Symbols (discontinued)
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (discontinued)
Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs (only face emojis)
Symbols and Pictographs extended A (only face emojis)
Ornamental Dingbats
Dingbats
Miscellaneous Technical
Currency Symbols
Letterlike Symbols
Arrows
Supplemental Arrows A
Supplemental Arrows B
Supplemental Arrows C
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (non-astrological)
Block Elements
Box Drawings
Geometric Shapes
Geometric Shapes Extended
Superscripts and Subscripts
Enclosed Alphanumeric
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
Control Pictures
Optical Character Recognition
Braille Patterns
Number Forms
Domino Tiles
Common Indic Number Forms
Mayan Numerals
Kaktovik Numerals
Musical Symbols (excl. Iranian, Kievan, and Gregorian notation)
Ancient Greek Musical Notation
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Planned in the future:
CJK Symbols and Punctuation?
Mathematical Operators?
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A?
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B?
Supplemental Mathematical Operators?
Osmanya
Warang Citi
Pau Cin Hau
Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong
Symbols for Legacy Computing
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (Hangul)
Hangul Jamo (full)
Hangul compatibility Jamo (full)
Hangul Jamo Extended-A?
Hangul Jamo Extended-B?
How to use:
Each letter is mapped based on KSX 5002 keyboard, which is the most common way to type korean. It is modified so that it can distinguish between jongseong(under) letters and choseong(upper) letters. Here is how it is mapped:
( [a,b] [a,b,c] a:original key b:mapped letter c:shifted letter )
( "ㅂ":Choseong ㅂ "_ㅂ":Jongseong ㅂ )
[1,_ㅂ] [2,_ㅈ] [3,_ㄷ] [4,_ㄱ,_ㄲ] [5,_ㅅ,_ㅆ]
[q,ㅂ,ㅃ] [w,ㅈ,ㅉ] [e,ㄷ,ㄸ] [r,ㄱ,ㄲ] [t,ㅅ,ㅆ] [y,ㅛ] [u,ㅕ] [i,ㅑ] [o,ㅐ,ㅒ] [p,ㅔ,ㅖ]
[a,ㅁ,_ㅁ] [s,ㄴ,_ㄴ] [d,ㅇ,_ㅇ] [f,ㄹ,_ㄹ] [g,ㅎ,_ㅎ] [h,ㅗ] [j,ㅓ] [k,ㅏ] [l,ㅣ]
[z,ㅋ,_ㅋ] [x,ㅌ,_ㅌ] [c,ㅊ,_ㅊ] [v,ㅍ,_ㅍ] [b,ㅠ] [n,ㅜ] [m,ㅡ]
So basically how it mapped is:
1. Everything except for jongseong letters is mapped the same
2. Jongseong letters are mapped in shifted key, except for ㅂ, ㅈ, ㄷ, ㄱ, ㅅ which already has shifted key (double letters). jongseong letters of ㅂ, ㅈ, ㄷ, ㄱ, ㅅ are mapped in 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and ㄲ, ㅆ's are mapped in $, %.