STANLEY MORISON, in his “THE ROMAN ITALIC & BLACK LETTER bequeathed to the University of Oxford by Dr. JOHN FELL” (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1951), began this way the description of the FELL TYPES: "The Oxford Printing house holds the oldest punches and matrices surviving in England, material not only treasured but used; types cast therefrom being employed for the composition of books and other printed matter."

It’s essentially the inheritance of the will of John Fell, D.D. who died on 10 July 1686, aged 61, Bishop of Oxford and Dean of Christ Church. Since 1668 he spent his life creating a ‘learned press’ in Oxford, endowed with invaluable equipment, setting a high standard for the future of his publishing.

He wrote: "The foundation of all successe must be layd in doing things well, and I am sure that will not be don with English letters" (to Jenkins, 2 Dec. 1672). So he collectected types available in the foreign market: mainly France, Holland and Germany. Fell decided to develop types in its own ‘workhouse’ too.

Peter De Walpergen became his personal type-founder. Says Harry Carter in “THE FELL TYPES. What has been done in and about them” (Oxford University Press, New York, 1968): "He was born at Frankfurt am Main, descended from a Protestant refugee from Antwerp. He was engaged by the Dutch East India Company in 1671 to work as a type-founder and printer in Java. The comparative crudity of his letter design makes it seems unlikely that he had been trained to cut punches."

John Fell entrusted him with the cut other types and letters for existing types to be harmonized with the larger bodies. Commented Morison: "The design of these large Fell Types is difficult to characterize and impossible wholly to approve. It has some affinity with the Dutch work of the second half of the seventeenth century, especially with the bigger size of type shown in the Widow Elsevier’s specimen-sheet of types attributed to Christoffel van Dyck; but De Walpergen went much further in the contrasting weight of thick and thin strokes and his design has crudities about it of which Van Dyck would not have been capable."

In 1686 John Fell died. In his “will” he bequeathed the entire collection of type to the University of Oxford. Remembers Morison: "This entire collection of ‘founding Materialls of Punchions Matrices Moulds’ was ‘got together’ by John Fell ‘and others at great expense’. Fell’s instructions that they ‘be carefully kept together’ by his executors were duly observed. The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Oxford honourably played their part in sustaining the interests of ‘learning and printing’ and thus the collection was not dissipated but manteined entire."

This is the Plane F font of the GS Unicode font series.  I've split this font up by plane (though as of yet only the fonts for Plane 0 and F exist), since .ttf files have a technical limit of 65,535 glyphs.

This font is/will be (in theory) made up of U+0020 and U+F0000~U+FFFFD, which is exactly 65,535 code points.

Things that are planned but not implemented yet are listed as [TBA] (to be added).

Links to planes (I'll most likely be posting updates related to this series as a whole in the Plane 0 font):

Plane 0: here
Plane 1: here
Plane 2: [TBA]
Plane 3: [TBA]
(No Unicode characters exist in Planes 4 through D)
Plane E: [TBA]
Plane F: [THIS FONT]
Plane 10: [TBA] (No PUA blocks have been requested in this plane yet)

PUA assignments:

E000~F8FF - see the Plane 0 font
F0000~F1FAF - <unassigned>
F1FB0~F1FFF - Muric [TBA]
F2000~F235F - canIPA [TBA]
F2360~FFFFF - <unassigned>
100000~10FFFF - will be in the Plane 10 font

Blocks listed [TBA] are subject to change in length and location, while those that aren't are (theoretically) stabilized à la UTC policies.

Additional PUA assignments can be found in the Plane 0 and (eventually) 10 fonts.

Feel free to recommend PUA assignments, though if it's a smaller block (i.e. ~256 characters or fewer), I might recommend the BMP PUA.

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!

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 (though as of yet only the fonts for Plane 0, 1, and F exist), since .ttf files have a technical limit of 65,535 glyphs.

Things that are planned but not implemented yet are listed as [TBA] (to be added).

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: [TBA]
Plane 3: [TBA]
(No Unicode characters exist in Planes 4 through D)
Plane E: [TBA]
Plane F: here
Plane 10: [TBA] (No PUA blocks have been requested in this plane yet)

PUA assignments:

E000~E07F - Tengwar
E080~E0FF - Cirth
E100~E62F - <unassigned>
E630~E64F - Seussian Latin Extensions
E650~E88F - <unassigned>
E890~E8DF - Aurebesh
E8E0~EB9F - <unassigned>
EBA0~EBDF - Cistercian Numerals
EBE0~EFFF - <unassigned>
F000~F2FF - Latin Orthographic Extensions
F300~F7BF - <unassigned>
F7C0~F7FF - Kana Orthographic Extensions
F800~F8CF - <unassigned>
F8D0~F8FF - Klingon

Additional PUA assignments in supplemental planes, which will be put in their respective fonts:

F0000~F1FAF - <unassigned>
F1FB0~F1FFF - Muric [TBA]
F2000~F235F - canIPA [TBA]
F2360~10FFFF - <unassigned>

Blocks listed [TBA] are subject to change in length and location, while those that aren't are (theoretically) stabilized à la UTC policies.

Feel free to recommend PUA assignments, though if it's a larger block (i.e. ~256 characters or more) or a more uncommon script, I might recommend the PUA in Planes F and 10.

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!

Finished! (Took me 3 days)

Private use characters are encoded in Variation Selectors and Latin Ext. D.

(Inspied by The TI-92 Font)