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BlockKie. This font is based on both "Helvetica" and "Roboto" fonts, and with numerous characters to simply make them more familiar, containing height limit of 16p for most letters, 20x20p limit for CJK/ideographic characters. After downloading it, you can tell me in the comments how was your performance with this "so classic" Sans Serif font! Thanks for downloading :D
CHANGE LOG
> 27/07/2023
* Fixed all letter accents (latin, cyrillic, greek).
> 24/07/2023
* More accents correction to greek extended accents (not all).
> 11/07/2023
* Accents correction to all used latin letters.
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The latest update includes glyphs fix at a few capital letters and in the punctuation. Follow the pic ;)
Identified a hyphen minus (-) bug, and I fixed it.
NEW FEATURES!
* New dingbats
* Latin Extended G
* Supplemental arrows A
* Now with PUA 2 latin letters
The same will apply to "BlockKie Slab". The Latin Ext G and PUA 2 glyphs were added with help of ScriptSource.
Update of today:
* Phonetic extensions supplement (modifier glpyhs)
* Latin ext F
* Supplemental arrows B
* Mathematical operators fully done
* 3K glyphs surpass
* Re-made number 0
* Full enclosed alphanumerics block
* More misc symbols
* Block elements
All these features will be applied to Slab version soon.
⊲ and ⊳ appears to be flipped around (Luicide Sans Unicode appeared to contain that one bug, possibly an error in the font)
⊲ should point <<<
⊳ should point >>>
@Bryndan W Meyerholt (BWM)
Verified the characters right now, and yes, I made a small mistake. For a quick work, I copy pasted the symbols and replaced them, without need to draw it again. This time I fixed it because of the system font in my phone (Roboto), it appeared correctly.
Thanks for reporting!
Update of today:
* 4 combining marks' blocks
* Cyrillic ext C
* Deseret
* 1 new currency symbol
* Old italic
* ⊲ and ⊳ symbols fixed (with help of BWM); used a smartphone with Roboto font, instead of Lucida Sans Unicode font in desktop
* Spacing adjusted (7 p to 4 p)
The same has been applied to Slab version.
Update of today:
* Bengali alphabet (Devanagari will appear soon)
* Re-made letter D (capital only + cyrillic + accents and strokes + cyrillic supplements)
* Fixed coptic letter Mi (capital + small)
All these features will be applied to Slab as long as possible.
Update of today:
* Kerning (.? + ?.) applied
* Devanagari & Devanagari extended unicode blocks
* Some Bengali letters were been fixed
Update of today (again):
* Fixed small letter J + cyrillic Je & greek Yot
* Small letter L width adjusted
* Improved parenthesis symbols
Update of today:
* Braille patterns + misc. mathematical symbols A added
* Full latin ext. E unicode block
Update of today:
* Fixed all capital letters S + cyrillic Dze + dollar sign
* Misc. Mathematical Symbols B unicode block included
* Supplemental arrows C
Update of today:
* Descenders fixed at cyrillic letters Ze, Es and abkhasian Che
Update of today:
* 8 new symbols at Unicode block "Miscellaneous Symbols"
* Supplemental punctuation complete
* Fixed all combining marks
Update of today:
* Fixed small letter G with breve (by accident I made it with a caron ??)
* Unicode block "Combining Diacritical Marks" complete
* Fixed all capital letters Schwa (Latin + Cyrillic)
Update of today:
* Armenian alphabet
Update of today (oh yee, again haha)
* Lisu + supplement alphabet
* Halfwidth and Fullwidth forms
* More alphabetic presentation forms glyphs added
* 5K glyphs surpassed
Update of today:
* Fixed letters A (greek Alpha)
* Added more glyphs at "Latin Extended-D"
Added a different brick into the U+2800 glyph to see if the width is FINALLY adjusted, and I made the pixel preview block being drunk ?
For some reason... I tested BlockKie into zFont 3 (custom font app for Android), and it seems to be very small, and I don't think it's normal. I tried out adjusting the bottom and top lines for an "exciting" experience, but it didn't solve anything...
(don't ask me about "browm" lol, corrector reasons)
BlockKie is finally back for everyone!
Sorry if I privated the font for a while. Fortunately, it looks like everything is now alright on the font. The few updates were:
* Modified the position to all glyphs (from 0X;2Y to 2X;3Y) for a better spacing experience in the font and then adjusted spacing
* Modified tons of letters and symbols
* Style change
Update of today:
* 15+ more PUA 2 glyphs
* N'Ko unicode block
Update of today:
* Re-made 7, A, V, w and Δ characters
* New Unicode set: "Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows"
For a while, I recommend you not download this font. As you can watch below, I'm again fixing all the glyphs...
But I guess it'll be fixed quickly, depending of how I am during these days, haha!
I'm thinking about replacing all the <not a character> and <private use> glyphs into my custom one. Don't be surprised if the font surpasses over 10K glyphs soon, I might consider it as a "cheating" lol
Now the font has support to Hebrew alphabet!
Update of today:
* Fixed all combining diacritical marks again
* Now with support to "Symbols for Legacy Computing"
:)
Time to test out some letters of "Hiragana". How does it look like? CJK support coming soon to BlockKie! :D
Update of today:
* Hiragana Unicode block finished
It's very satisfying to see it's my first time drawing Japanese script glyphs and it seems very good...
A small timeline to show how the font grew up in 2 months
I had to remake all my CJK spaced glyphs. It's switched between 14x14p to 18x18 for a better development of them.
Now I finally can do more glyphs...
I wonder if variant forms (that occur in Traditional Chinese, Japanese, or Koren) would also be added after CJK is done?
Korean, not Koren
Hey there @Bryndan W Meyerholt (BWM) !
I was thinking to do them after I finish Hangul Jamo and Hangul Compatibility Jamo, but doing them now would be a nice idea, even though there aren't too much to do...
Some "misunderstandings" to be fixed on both of these letters on "Coptic" set.
didn't expect this
Hi! This is a very beautiful and impressive looking font, however I'm having trouble downloading this. Is there an alternative download available somewhere besides here? I tried to get it from here but it didn't work and said it "wasn't a valid ttf file".
Yes, I noticed that this font isn't the one which has this issue. I just noticed that many of the fonts downloaded in FontStruct have this known error, which is preventing from application on desktop, even if you download it in .otf file. I have uploaded this font in an alternate link, if you want to check it out, click here. I don't guess it'll work 100%, but if you want to download it to use in any smartphone, it's free and safe to use.
Idk if some of you all which downloaded this font have realized, but BlockKie is passing by a giant update. I'm right now reforming ALL the characters. Instead of pixel-styled characters, I'm working at doing them in a "rounded-geometric" style, and yeah, it'll be a VERY long work. While I'm re-doing all the glyphs, there'll be no new CJK ideographs or any new glyphs, and it might last 3 possible weeks. I recommend you not download it right now while it's in a huge maintenance, because you might be surprised some characters are remade, and others not. Anyways, you can say what you think of them using the sample! ;)
BlockKie has superscripts and subscripts numbers very similar to Helvetica ?
"Roboto.ttf" styled alphanumerics in BlockKie
Cherokee Supplement is having a slow process to redo them round... Well, I knew that seemed to be harsh ?
That emoji was the Smiling Face with Tear emoji. Some emoji are not displayed on specifix platforms. Windows 10 did not display it. I only saw boxes in place of it.
@Bryndan W Meyerholt (BWM) - My Android device, besides it's Android 10, if you use Chrome, that emoji appears, and I can type it with the keyboard lol ... In desktop might not appear it by not staying on U14
FINALLY time to remake all CJK glyphs again... After a month.
Wow, this is amazing! You did a great job!
...I'm getting kind of jealous, though...!
Nice font. F247 and F248 are actually alternate As for Kaolib, an African language. I tend to design them more akin to the Nordic AO/ao, i.e., A734 and A735, but leave the O/o open.
P.S. Scroll down my font Gowa a bit and you'll see the Ao/ao in Latin Extended-A.
Awesome ?
Thank you everyone!! I'm working frequently on it due to remaster >>now<< all CJK, ideographic and halfwidth glyphs. After it's done, I'm about to FINALLY make more CJK chars. Wait for it !! :D
BlockKie (non-commercial) is now available at Cufon Fonts!
https://www.cufonfonts.com/font/blockkie-2
This font is corrupted.
@Byczek Did you download the OTF file by chance?
@Byczek (Patryk Sztylc)
I forgot to mention about ".otf" download in the FontStruction description, but, according with BWM, if you download in this format, you really might have troubles on it, though BlockKie is (still) made proper for ".ttf" use.
Also, just like most FontStructions made in this website, this one will also cause issue if you try to use in in desktop. Some times ago I downloaded to test it on Word, Paint or other similar apps, it says "This isn't a valid TTF file".
HOWEVER, you can either use it in some compatible apps in your cellphone, or use it as a system font (Android only) using an app called "zFont 3", I tested it thousands of times and it ran swift and safely.
???? ????!
Now BlockKie has support to "Kerning"! I didn't do in ALL glyphs yet because it's still being tested. Until it's granted everything is working well, I'll be doing even for Cyrillic and Greek letters. I've currently finished kerning for Basic Latin, and I'm working right now for accented letters. You can tell me what did you think of kerning work at BlockKie!
When doing kerning, you probably should NOT kern letters from one script with those of another, it may not be applied correctly.
@Bryndan W Meyerholt (BWM)
I am aware of this, already ;)
I got an idea right now of putting all versions/updates on the font in description, and also removing "supported unicode sets" section to not let it more like a "text book". All updates will appear now in the description, and stay tuned.
The "Latin" capital Gamma on BlockKie, lol
I would like to generate a bitmap font version, but I can't load it into FontForge (or similar) because the font name is invalid. Any ideas?
@gingerbeardman Did you download the ttf file? The otf file appears to be unstable when downloaded from here.
@gingerbeardman: Sometimes this has worked for me. After downloading, try to rename the font file to just "BlockKie" (or another simple) without any other signs and then try to load it wherever you want. Maybe this way you can remove the awkward info of the square brackets [ and ] and the + sign from the file name.
@gingerbeardman
You can use the idea elmoyenique told you here. I'm generally used to put brackets [ ], but it's more to gather details about the fonts I make, but you can remove them after downloading because this might be the reason of your issue.
U15 Latin Extended-G on BlockKie... good?
U+1F8B0 and U+1F8B1 should look like these respectively
@Bryndan W Meyerholt (BWM)
Alright, I'm going to fix thisss, thanks!
What about the Cyrillic Extended-D (AKA Unicode v15) in BlockKie?
HI! im working on a font that takes the pua (private use area) characters and reveals them.. click on this --> P.U.A./resurrect001
great, @Driftmaker !
Final sigma uppercase should look like this
Sadly, It doesn't work for me.
Hey @CameronLee157, this is a known issue, and I have already reported it to Rob. You aren't the one who is dealing with this application issue.
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