1:1 2:2 3:3 4:4 5:5 6:6 7:7 8:8 9:9 0:0 -:tone2 ^:-aue
q:qa w:nga e:-ee r:-e t:tha y:ya u:-u i:-i o:-oo p:pha @:-ue [:tone3
a:-aa s:sa d:ta f:fa g:ka h:ha j:-ai k:kha l:la ;:tone4 ::tone5 ]:tone6
z:ca x:xa c:cha v:va b:pa n:na m:ma ,:, .:. /:-o _:-eh
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My take on the Tai Le/Tai Nüa/Dehong Dai script which is used mainly in the Dehong region in southwest China. The relative blockiness of the letters made it a prime candidate for a FontStruct treatment.
Tai Le was added to the Unicode standard in version 4.0 in 2003. This font however uses an ad-hoc mapping to Ascii characters. Thanks to the limited number of letters (for a Brahmic script) the mapping mostly makes sense. Aspirated plosives are mapped to upper case and tone markers to shift+digit. The latter have been mapped so that they work on both US and Swedish Mac keyboards (and hopefully many others). Luckily there were no conflict between the two.
The script is an abugida: a syllable-initial consonant letter has an inherent vowel ‹a›. Whether a consonant is initial or final has to be inferred from context, however only ‹p›, ‹t›, ‹k›, ‹m›, ‹n› and ‹ng› can appear in final position.
(The letter pair ‹tone 2› + ‹ka› could really use some kerning.)
Inspired by Igiari.
This project is abandoned.
Description:
Perfectly monospaced 5x7 font (even watermarks!).
Note: Some characters are exceeding 5x7 size, though font boundaries are the same and the font itself is monospaced.
Note 2: Some characters are double or triple of the horizontal size of a letter, e.g. 11x7 (occupies exactly 2 characters), 17x7 (occupies exactly 3 characters) etc.
Includes:
* Basic Latin
* More Latin
* Extended Latin
* Even More Latin
* Basically all kinds of Latin
* Greek and Coptic
* Coptic
* Cyrillic
* Arabic
* Devangari
* Hebrew
* Katakana
* Thai
* Georgian
* Georgian Extended
* Armenian
* Bopomofo
* Hiragana
* NKo
* Tifinagh
* Cherokee
* Runic
* Tai Le
* Ol Chiki
* Brahmi
* Old South Arabian
* Old Turkic
* Lydian
* Shavian
* General Punctuation
* Superscripts and Subscripts
* Currency Symbols
* Letterlike Symbols
* Box Drawing
* Block Elements
* Arrows
* Geometric Shapes
* Phonetic Extensions
* Number Forms
* Mathematical Operators
* Miscellaneous Technical
* Miscellaneous Symbols
* Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
* Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (Bold Serif)
* Control Pictures
* Enclosed Alphanumerics
* Dingbats
* Brailie Patterns
* Progress bar similar to Fira Code
And more!
Changelog:
1.4.0 (5969 chars) (working on)
Changed:
* Made Box Drawings bold
Added:
* Brahmi
* Old Turkic
* Old South Arabian
* Shavian
* Lydian
* Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs (not finished yet)
* Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (Bold Serif part)
1.3.0 (5244 chars)
Changed:
* Redone Hiragana
* Redone Katakana
Added:
* Miscellaneous Technical
* Miscellaneous Symbols
* Ol Chiki
* Georgian Extended
1.2.2 (4643 chars)
Changed:
* Fixed Hiragana
1.2.1 (4615 chars)
Added:
* Runic
* Tai Le
1.2.0 (4499 chars)
Added:
* Cherokee
Changed:
* Fixed some characters' width
1.1.0 (4379 chars)
Added:
* Coptic letters (different from Greek and Coptic)
* Tifinagh
1.0.1 (4197 chars)
Changed:
* Fixed Block Elements grid
1.0.0 (4197 chars)
First release of this font
Feel free to post issues, ideas and questions in the comments!
P.S. On Windows this font will be corrupted and would not install. This problem also occures in some other fonts with many characters in them.
You still can use this font as a file for some programs.