An experimental  "8-segment font" that I made. It started when I divided a square into 8 parts through the middle. Out of those 8 parts, I would shade some parts to look like characters. Ultimately, it didn't make for the best font design, but I thought it was worth sharing.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS FONT HAS BEEN PAUSED. (22/05/25)

A simple and clean (10 px in width × 20 px in height) Unicode pixel/bitmap font, inspired by Unifoundry's Unifont typeface project.

This project is still very in-progress of making so it'll be a while until an actual release is made.

If you have any improvement ideas or reports on any incorrect glyphs, please tell me by commenting. I don't have much experience in designing glyphs for non-latin, especially symbol characters, so any help is greatly appreciated.

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You are currently looking at version v.0.9-05.22.25 of Bitern Mono (previously named Bitern Unicode).

Obviously this is just a pixelized form, if anyone would like to make a smoothed out version, be my guest, and let me know when you finish!

This is a phonemic alphabet, although it does not account for glottal stops, etc.

[pP] = pig

[bB] = big

[f] = fine

[v] = vine

[F] = thin

[V] = then

[T] = bats

[s] = bass

[z] = is

[t] = ten

[dD] = den

[cC] = witch

[S] = wish

[j] = verge

[Z] = version

[kK] = cot

[gG] = got

[mM] = might

[n] = night

[lL] = gall

[N] = gong

[hH] = hello

[e] - bet

[A] - bait

[o] - bought

[a] - bat

[i] - bit

[O] - boat

[u] - but

[E] - beet

[U] - boot

[r] - burn

[I] - bite

[W] - bear

[R] - bar

[Q] - bow

[w] - bore

This is a code I invented.

Many of the capital letters are redundant to the lowercase equivalent:

B,F,G,J,K,M,O,P,Q,V,W,Y,Z

To type a standard letter, the keys are:

a,[bB],c,d,E,[fF],[gG],H,i,[jJ],[kK],l,[mM],N,[oO],[pP],[qQ],R,S,t,u,[vV],[wW],x,[yY],[zZ]

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Some letters or letter combinations can be written as accents over other letters (meaning never use these at the beginning of a word) to save space:

"e" = e; "h" = h; "he" = T; "ly" = L; "n" = n;

"r" = r; "s" = s; "ing" = G; "es" = X;

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There are a few special rules:

-the 'r' accent can represent "er" but only at the end of a word

-o + [a,i,or u] can be written as one character:

"ou" = oU; "oa" = oA; "oi" = oI;

-the above rule also applies to "qu", which can be typed as qU;

-if a letter would be doubled, an accent is written under it to save space: "tt" = t`; "oo" = o`; etc.

-if an accent would be doubled, an accent is written under its base letter to save space: "inn" = in~; "bee" = be~; etc.

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Only one accent can be below a character and one above. If any conflict, write the word in the most efficient way possible without any conflicts. If there is more than one equally efficient way to write a word, follow these rules:

-"e" has precedence - "ben" would be written beN, not bEn

-if ^ does not solve, just write the first letter as an accent rather than the second - "cans" would be canS, not caNs

-if there is a double [e,r,s,or n], only use ` or ~ to show it: never write "bee" as beE, only be~; never write "knee" as kNeE, only knE`;

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if anyoNe finds a word that bReaks tT above RulX, let me know. also, fe~l frE` to cloNe tT font and make a Non-pixelized veRsion of it. if yoU do, let me know!