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January 19, 2017

GNU Unifont Glyphs [Good News/Bad News]

Filed under: Fonts,Unicode — Patrick Durusau @ 9:43 am

GNU Unifont Glyphs 9.0.06.

From the webpage:

GNU Unifont is part of the GNU Project. This page contains the latest release of GNU Unifont, with glyphs for every printable code point in the Unicode 9.0 Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). The BMP occupies the first 65,536 code points of the Unicode space, denoted as U+0000..U+FFFF. There is also growing coverage of the Supplemental Multilingual Plane (SMP), in the range U+010000..U+01FFFF, and of Michael Everson’s ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR).
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That’s the good news.

The bad news is shown by the coverage mapping:

0.0%  U+012000..U+0123FF  Cuneiform*
0.0%  U+012400..U+01247F  Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation*
0.0%  U+012480..U+01254F  Early Dynastic Cuneiform*
0.0%  U+013000..U+01342F  Egyptian Hieroglyphs*
0.0%  U+014400..U+01467F  Anatolian Hieroglyphs*

These scripts will require a 32-by-32 pixel grid:

*Note: Scripts such as Cuneiform, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and Bamum Supplement will not be drawn on a 16-by-16 pixel grid. There are plans to draw these scripts on a 32-by-32 pixel grid in the future.

One additional resource on creating cuneiform fonts:

Creating cuneiform fonts with MetaType1 and FontForge by Karel Píška:

Abstract:

A cuneiform font collection covering Akkadian, Ugaritic and Old Persian glyph subsets (about 600 signs) has been produced in two steps. With MetaType1 we generate intermediate Type 1 fonts, and then construct OpenType fonts using FontForge. We describe cuneiform design and the process of font development.

On creating fonts more generally with FontForge, see: Design With FontForge.

Enjoy!

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