The design process is typical in its atypicality (yes, it is a word, or, at least, should be!).
The atypicality necessitates the telling of the story behind it.
Looking for something to do...something easy to do, I came across the font shown 5th from the top in this article on Dieline. "I can do this," thought I. I did a 2 that looked similar. Based on that, did the 3. 5 6 9. 0 8. 1 7. "Hmm." Add the horizontal stripes. 7. 4? "No." Re-4? "No. Another 4? Perhaps thinner sides?" "Even thinner." "Hmm." Redo 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9. "Maybe this is better. OK, lets do the letters." Start with Z because it is almost a 2 with minor curve tweak. Do the S. B because 3 is done. A. V. C. E. F L. J. Etc.
The glyphs so far have a 3 horizontal band appearance. Do the lowercase. a is two bands. b is two bands...but how high should the ascender be? Also, the x-height seems wrong. Off somehow. "Can I do a 2 band uppercase with the letter slightly taller. Maybe 2 bricks taller?"
Redo A. Redo B. "No this B is not working." Redo B. Redo B. Redo B. "Hmm. Maybe." Redo C D. Redo E F L. "OK, this might work." Redo to all uppercase letters.
Do the lowercase. "Yes I like the new f." Redo other letters to include the flip. Most of the letters are the same width. "Maybe I can make this a mono-space font." Redo m. Redo M. W. V. "The A looks odd." Redo A. And so on.
The font may have started as a simple thing but it is very different now. "I'll just publish it." "No, I should at least do the basic punctuations." "No this hyphen is too thick." Redo. "Now it is too thin." Redo. "Now it is too wide. But this is mono-space font. The width cannot be altered." +. "That just looks weird." Redo +. Now the - looks off. Redo -. Now they both don't fit with the rest of the font. Redo + -. "No. I'll come back to them." Do [. "No that's too heavy top and bottom." Redo [. Do (. "This needs a different curve." Redo (. "Can I use this new curve somewhere else?" Redo @. "Hmm." Do ©. Do ®. Do ™. Do “. "I can't make this so wide." Do ‘. "Definately cannot make it mono-space." Redo all punctuation to be their natural width. "This is no longer a mono-space font. Should I redo M m W w to be more natural?" Redo do m. "No this is too much work. I can't be bothered anymore. Let the m's and w's be."
"The punctuation looks niiice. Should I do a font to match these?"
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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!
i take the undertale/deltarune font and add glyphs that are not from basic latin because everyone always forgets to add them
In the private use area F000-F022 are some chars to help with custom symbols
Here is an extended version of my Atemayar Rigid Script. This script has taken me years to get to the point where it is. It is incomplete however I figured I would release it with the current list of characters that I have created. While I plan to complete it, it will be some time before this is achieved so please bear with me as life tends to get in the way sometimes.
I began this font August 31, 2017, and I'm releasing it 30 days short of its 2 year anniversary.
Based off the original alphabet of Atemayar Qelisayér featured on Omniglot created by Simon Halfdan Hvilshøj Andersen. Credit for all the original characters of this alphabet goes to him, as well as credit for inspiration. Some characters in this alphabet are wholly original to this font (most are not however), these are inspired wholly by the original Atemayar alphabet in one way or another.
I truly and sincerely hope you enjoy, this font is made for all to enjoy and to spread such a beautiful alphabet to be used for all languages and all writing systems. I love Atemayar more than any existing writing system, I take all my notes in it, and I wish that Simon Halfdan Hvilshøj Andersen's alphabet will be spread around the world and used by many.
The alphabets can be categorized into groups based on the following criteria:
- Pseudo-Atemayar: shares no letters with Atemayar, but appears similar
- Semi-Pseudo-Atemayar: shares a few characters with Atemayar, but overall still looks like its base alphabet and can't be read by Atemayar users
- Modified Atemayar: Follows all/most of the same letters as Atemayar, however has added or modified letters as well
- Classic Atemayar: Original Atemayar alphabet without change
The alphabets' classifications are as follows:
Basic Latin: Classic (except X, which is a ligature of K and S)
Punctuation (all except . , : ; ? ! ... " '): Modified
More Latin: Modified
Extended Latin B: Modified
Extended Latin A: Modified
Greek & Coptic: Modified
Cyrillic: Modified
Arabic: Modified (reversed letters)
Devanagari: Modified (line above letters)
Georgian: Semi-Pseudo
Armenian: Semi-Pseudo
Katakana: Modified
Hebrew: Modified (reversed letters) ***Incomplete***
Hangul: Pseudo ***Incomplete***
Bopomofo: Modified (dots above letters, ligatures)
Thai: Pseudo ***Incomplete***
I used Tile Molester (I didn't name it that way!) and extracted the Earthbound and Mother 2 font (English ROM and Japanese ROM) that was used in the game's menu and tried to combine and insert them here myself. (I used the Earthbound's Latin instead of Mother 2's bolder one, because most recognize it that way)
I've added a few hundred more glyphs to it, hoping this may come in handy for some fans out there. ^^ I'll add more languages (maybe use all the glyphs available) if you request it, otherwise, I'll only leave it at 878 glyphs. ;D
This font includes:
- Basic Latin
- More Latin
- Extended Latin A
- Extended Latin B
- Katakana
- Hiragana
- Greek and Coptic
To reference the game a little more... Katakana Middle Dot, More Latin's Middle Dot, and More Latin's Bullet are actually the middle dots that you see in the Japanese and English character naming screen, respectively. ^^
I don't have status conditions and the battle font in here, because it's pretty much its own font and I honestly can't find it in the game's file for some reason... (no clue what settings to use see those)
Finished! (Took me 3 days)
Private use characters are encoded in Variation Selectors and Latin Ext. D.
(Inspied by The TI-92 Font)