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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 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 Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP), in the range U+010000..U+01FFFF, and of Michael Everson's ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) with Rebecca Bettencourt's Under-CSUR additions.
Commercial Use
A user has asked if GNU Unifont can be used with commercial (non-free) software. The answer is yes. The GNU Font Embedding Exception and the SIL OFL allow for that. See the next section for details. The main purpose of the licensing is to require derivative fonts that others create to be released to the public under the same licensing terms, not to prohibit the use of those fonts with certain software. Thus, preserving the license terms in derivative fonts provides a public benefit. The licenses also provide acknowledgement of previous Unifont contributors for their volunteer work.
Copyright, Derivative Works, and License
Thousands of Unifont glyphs are creations of individual Unifont contributors; those glyphs enjoy copyright protections of various degrees. Some of those contributions are letter forms of established alphabets while others are icon (symbol) designs such as the many animal icons which, as artistic designs, have even stronger international protections. See for example this memorandum of applicable laws of Berne Union member country Germany (where Unifont was created): Unifont Copyright Protections.
Derivative variants of Unifont are permitted under the terms of the dual license: GNU GPLv2+ with the GNU Font Embedding Exception and the SIL Open Font License version 1.1. These are free licenses. The remainder of this section provides details.
These font files are licensed under the GNU General Public License, either Version 2 or (at your option) a later version, with the exception that embedding the font in a document does not in itself constitute a violation of the GNU GPL. The full terms of the license are in LICENSE.txt.
As of Unifont version 13.0.04, the fonts are dual-licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL) version 1.1 and the GNU GPL 2+ with the GNU font embedding exception. The SIL OFL is available at OFL-1.1.txt.
Font Downloads
The standard font build — with and without the ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) / Under-CSUR Private Use Area (PUA) glyphs. Download in your favorite format:
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OpenType:
- The Standard Unifont OpenType Download: unifont-16.0.01.otf (5 Mbytes)
- Unifont Japanese OpenType Version: unifont_jp-16.0.01.otf (5 Mbytes)
- Glyphs above the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane: unifont_upper-16.0.01.otf (1 Mbyte)
- Unicode ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) PUA Glyphs: unifont_csur-16.0.01.otf (0.5 Mbyte)
- PCF: unifont-16.0.01.pcf.gz (1 Mbyte)
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BDF:
- unifont-16.0.01.bdf.gz (1 Mbyte)
- Unifont Japanese BDF Version: unifont_jp-16.0.01.bdf.gz (1 Mbyte)
Specialized versions — built by request:
- PSF: A specialized PSF 1 console frame buffer font consisting of 512 glyphs for use with APL, A Programming Language, in console mode (single-user mode on GNU/Linux, etc.), mainly to support GNU APL: Unifont-APL8x16-16.0.01.psf.gz (4 kbytes)
- HEX: All the Plane 0 glyphs in Roman's .hex format, for those who wish to experiment: unifont-16.0.01.hex.gz (1 Mbyte)
- HEX: The above .hex file with combining circles added: unifont_sample-16.0.01.hex.gz (1 Mbyte)
On Windows or Mac OS X, unzip the .ttf.zip file or download the uncompressed .ttf file and copy the font to your Fonts folder. On Microsoft Windows, this folder is located under the Windows folder on your main disk. On a Mac, this is located under the Library folder on your main disk.
For best appearance on a Mac in a Terminal window, select Terminal from the menu, then Preferences. A Settings window will appear. Make sure that you're on the Text tab in that window. Then make sure that the "Antialias text" box is checked. The OpenType version of the font should then look fine at point sizes of 12pt and larger. The font won't look very legible in a Mac Terminal window unless you select this antialias option.
Note: BDF, PCF, and OpenType files contain dimension and spacing information for each glyph in a font. Some font rendering engines ignore this glyph information that the font file provides. This is especially true of rendering engines designed to handle monospace fonts. Unifont will not display all glyphs correctly with such software. The BDF font follows BDF version 2.1 (not version 2.2) because the the X Window System standardized on version 2.1. The PSF 1 version of Unifont is a monospace font but is limited to 512 glyphs, and is only of use with font rendering engines that support more than 256 glyphs in a console frame buffer font.
All unifont.hex sources are in the full Unifont Utilities download page.
Unifont Limitations
Unifont only stores one glyph per printable Unicode code point. This means that complex scripts with special forms for letter combinations including consonant combinations and floating vowel marks such as with Indic scripts (Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, etc.) or letters that change shape depending upon their position in a word (Indic and Arabic scripts) will not render well in Unifont. In those cases, Unifont is only suitable as a font of last resort. Users wishing to properly render such complex scripts should use full OpenType fonts that faithfully display such alternate forms.
Drawing New Glyphs
If you would like to contribute glyphs, please email unifoundry at gmail in advance (not spelled out because of spammers). Several contributors are working on new glyphs, and it would be unfortunate to have multiple persons drawing the same glyphs.
Special Note: New Plane 2 and Plane 3 CJK Glyphs
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has a set of 15-by-16 pixel Chinese glyphs for Unicode Plane 2 and Plane 3. However, those glyphs are copyrighted and licensed for sale by the Government of the PRC, and thus they cannot be used in a free font. If you happen to have any of those copyrighted 15-by-16 pixel glyphs, please do not send them for inclusion. Unifont includes many glyphs in this range, drawn by Chinese and Japanese volunteers. More are planned for the future.
Release Notes
This latest release is part of the GNU Project. You can view the GNU Project Unifont Page on Savannah.
The theoretical maximum number of printable glyphs in the Unicode Plane 0 range is 65,536 code points minus the 2,048 surrogate pair code points, minus the 6,400 Private Use Area code points, minus the two noncharacters (U+FFFE and U+FFFF). This amounts to 57,086 assignable code points apart from the Private Use Area.
The theoretical maximum number of printable glyphs in the higher Unicode planes is 65,534; the last two code points in each plane are reserved as noncharacters.
Unifont 16.0
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10 September 2024 (Unifont 16.0.01)
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Plane 0:
- David Corbett added U+0897, ARABIC PEPET.
- Paul Hardy added the new glyphs in Balinese (U+1B4E, U+1B4F, and U+1B7F), Cyrillic Extended-C (U+1C89, U+1C8A), and Latin Extended-D (U+A7CB..U+A7CD, U+A7DA..U+A7DC).
- Johnnie Weaver:
- Modified Cherokee glyphs U+13C9 and U+AB99.
- Changed these glyphs to half-width: U+210E, U+210F, U+212E, U+212F, U+2300, U+2329, U+232A, U+2610, U+2611, U+2612, U+2713, U+2717, U+A728, U+A729, U+A732, U+A733, U+A734, U+A735, U+A736, U+A737, U+A738, U+A739, U+A73A, U+A73B, U+A73C, U+A73D, U+A74E, U+A74F, U+A758, U+A759, U+A771, U+A772, U+A773, U+A774, U+A775, U+A776, U+A777, U+A797, U+A7C2, and U+A7C3.
- Boris Zhang drew the Suzhou Numerals six through nine (U+3026..U+3029).
- Rebecca Bettencourt drew the new Control Pictures glyphs, U+2427..U+2429.
- Yzy32767 redrew the Bopomofo glyphs (U+3105..U+312F) in a Kai (楷) style.
- 湖 远星 contributed the new glyphs in CJK Strokes (U+31D2, U+31E4, and U+31E5).
- Hayden Wong modified U+3862 per Unicode 15.1.0.
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Plane 0 CSUR/UCSUR:
- Rebecca Bettencourt contributed:
- U+E400..U+E59F Herman Miller's previosuly missing scripts
- U+E6D0..U+E6EF Amlin
- Unifon glyphs U+E6FD and U+E73D, previously missing
- U+EC70..U+ECEF Graflect.
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Danae Dekker contributed:
- U+EC00..U+EC2F Cylenian
- U+EC30..U+EC6F Syrrin.
- Rebecca Bettencourt contributed:
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Plane 1:
- Johnnie Weaver contributed:
- U+105C0..U+105FF Todhri*
- U+10D40..U+10D8F Garay*
- U+11BC0..U+11BFF Sunuwar*
- U+16D40..U+16D7F Kirat Rai*
- Khitan Small Script (U+18BD2, U+18BFF)
- U+1E5D0..U+1E5FF Ol Onal.*
- David Corbett contributed:
- Arabic Extended-C glyphs U+10EC2..U+10EC4, U+10EFC.
- U+16100..U+1613F Gurung Khema*
- Paul Hardy contributed:
- U+11380..U+113FF Tulu-Tigalari*
- U+116D0..U+116E3 Myanmar Extended-C*
- Kawi glyph U+11F5A
- Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A glyphs U+1FA89, U+1FA8F, U+1FABE, U+1FAC6, U+1FADC, U+1FADF, and U+1FAE9.
- Rebecca Bettencourt contributed:
- U+1CC00..U+1CCF9 Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement*
- Supplemental Arrows-C glyphs U+1F8B2..U+18BB, U+1F8C0, and U+1F8C1
- Symbols for Legacy Computing glyphs U+1FBCB..U+1FBEF.
- anonymous1 redrew Enclosed Ideographic Supplement glyph U+1F200.
- Johnnie Weaver contributed:
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Plane 2:
- Hayden Wong contributed the new glyphs in CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B U+20020..U+2004F and U+29E00..2A0FF.
- twuchiutann contributed the new glyphs in CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B U+20050..U+2073F.
- Boris Zhang redrew CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D glyphs U+2B75F, U+2B76B, and Extension I glyphs U+2B7EF, U+2EC1F, U+2EC20, U+2EC21, U+2EC2F, U+2EC6F, U+2ECBF, U+2ECEC, and U+2ED42.
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湖 远星 contributed the following glyphs, which are common
in Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, etc., from a list provided
with the Ichiten font.
- CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B glyphs:
U+203B7 𠎷 U+20546 𠕆 U+20584 𠖄 U+205FB 𠗻 U+207A9 𠞩 U+207AD 𠞭 U+20803 𠠃 U+2081D 𠠝 U+20895 𠢕 U+20BD7 𠯗 U+20C41 𠱁 U+20CBF 𠲿 U+20CD4 𠳔 U+20D5D 𠵝 U+20D71 𠵱 U+20DA7 𠶧 U+20E76 𠹶 U+20E98 𠺘 U+20ED8 𠻘 U+20F3B 𠼻 U+20F7E 𠽾 U+21014 𡀔 U+210AB 𡂫 U+210F6 𡃶 U+21145 𡅅 U+2176D 𡝭 U+217D3 𡟓 U+2180D 𡠍 U+21883 𡢃 U+2197C 𡥼 U+21C2A 𡰪 U+21CA2 𡲢 U+21CDE 𡳞 U+21DD1 𡷑 U+21F0F 𡼏 U+221A1 𢆡 U+22399 𢎙 U+224DC 𢓜 U+2251B 𢔛 U+22775 𢝵 U+22AB1 𢪱 U+22AE6 𢫦 U+22BED 𢯭 U+22BFE 𢯾 U+22C4B 𢱋 U+22C62 𢱢 U+22C64 𢱤 U+22CB4 𢲴 U+22CB8 𢲸 U+22CC6 𢳆 U+22CEA 𢳪 U+22D80 𢶀 U+22F0C 𢼌 U+22F1B 𢼛 U+23073 𣁳 U+23074 𣁴 U+23350 𣍐 U+236BA 𣚺 U+236EE 𣛮 U+23B88 𣮈 U+23CA9 𣲩 U+23EF8 𣻸 U+23F0E 𣼎 U+240D2 𤃒 U+241AC 𤆬 U+24259 𤉙 U+242B6 𤊶 U+2430D 𤌍 U+24352 𤍒 U+24364 𤍤 U+24419 𤐙 U+24430 𤐰 U+24605 𤘅 U+2479A 𤞚 U+24C8D 𤲍 U+24D80 𤶀 U+24D83 𤶃 U+24E01 𤸁 U+24E31 𤸱 U+24E85 𤺅 U+24EA7 𤺧 U+24EAA 𤺪 U+25148 𥅈 U+2517E 𥅾 U+2531A 𥌚 U+25349 𥍉 U+25435 𥐵 U+2546E 𥑮 U+257C7 𥟇 U+25BDF 𥯟 U+25BE5 𥯥 U+25C14 𥰔 U+25D0A 𥴊 U+25E86 𥺆 U+2624E 𦉎 U+26293 𦊓 U+26706 𦜆 U+267EA 𦟪 U+2688A 𦢊 U+2690E 𦤎 U+26E05 𦸅 U+2725F 𧉟 U+27304 𧌄 U+27371 𧍱 U+27486 𧒆 U+277F0 𧟰 U+279A0 𧦠 U+27A63 𧩣 U+27B2A 𧬪 U+27B99 𧮙 U+27EF4 𧻴 U+27FC1 𧿁 U+27FEC 𧿬 U+27FF3 𧿳 U+280BE 𨂾 U+280BF 𨂿 U+280E9 𨃩 U+280F0 𨃰 U+28154 𨅔 U+282CD 𨋍 U+2837D 𨍽 U+2838A 𨎊 U+28487 𨒇 U+28595 𨖕 U+28891 𨢑 U+28D99 𨶙 U+28E39 𨸹 U+2945D 𩑝 U+2947E 𩑾 U+294E5 𩓥 U+296A8 𩚨 U+296E9 𩛩 U+29704 𩜄 U+29730 𩜰 U+29D71 𩵱 U+29DD3 𩷓 U+29E19 𩸙 U+29E36 𩸶 U+29EAC 𩺬 U+29F27 𩼧 U+29F30 𩼰 U+29F48 𩽈 U+29F70 𩽰 U+2A04E 𪁎 U+2A0BA 𪂺 U+2A1E1 𪇡 U+2A41E 𪐞 U+2A590 𪖐 U+2A612 𪘒 U+2A64A 𪙊 - CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C glyphs: U+2A736 𪜶, U+2AE5A 𪹚, and U+2B4A2 𫒢
- CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E glyphs: U+2B8C6 𫣆, U+2C816 𬠖, and U+2C9B0 𬦰.
- CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B glyphs:
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Plane 3:
- twuchiutann modified U+30EDD and U+30EDE (biang), originally drawn by Ming Fan, to differentiate between traditional and simplified Chinese versions.
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湖 远星 contributed the following glyphs, which are common in
Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, etc., from a list given in the
Ichiten font.
- CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G glyphs: U+301DB 𰇛, U+308FB 𰣻, and U+30E6C 𰹬
- CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H glyph: U+31C7F 𱱿.
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Plane 15 CSUR/UCSUR:
- Rebecca Bettencourt contributed:
- U+F16B0..U+F16DF Derani
- U+F2000..U+F267F Sadalian.
- Paul Hardy contributed U+F1C80..U+F1C9C Sitelen Pona Radicals.
- Rebecca Bettencourt contributed:
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Plane 0:
Unifont 15.1
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24 February 2024 (Unifont 15.1.05)
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Plane 0:
- Ho-seok Ee redrew all Hangul glyphs not in the Hangul Syllables range, so their style more closely resembles the style of the Hangul Syllables range: U+1100..U+11FF Hangul Jamo, U+3131..U+318E Hangul Compatibility Jamo, U+A960..U+A97C Hangul Jamo Extended-A, U+D7B0..U+D7FB Hangul Jamo Extended-B.
- Hayden Wong improved several glyphs in the range U+2100..U+214F Letterlike Symbols.
- Johnnie Weaver redrew U+013D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH CARON for better compatibility with other glyphs in the Czech and Slovak alphabets.
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Planes 2 and 3: almost 600 new ideographs, including:
- Boris Zhang and Yzy32767 contributed U+20000..U+2001F.
- Boris Zhang and Yzy32767 contributed the entire CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D range, U+2B740..U+2B81D.
- 湖 远星 contributed 335 glyphs across Plane 2 and Plane 3 with common Cantonese ideographs.
- Other new idegraphs in CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I.
- Plane F: Paul Hardy modified the Sitelen Pona script, added combining character indicators and adding several new glyphs since the last release. This completes the most current version of Sitelen Pona. encodings
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Plane 0:
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29 October 2023 (Unifont 15.1.04)
- Default and Japanese versions have larger supersets of Plane 2 and Plane 3 glyphs.
- Johnnie Weaver contributed updates for U+266D..U+266F and U+26BC.
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21 October 2023 (Unifont 15.1.03)
- Boris Zhang and Yzy32767 contributed CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I glyphs (U+2EBF0..U+2EE5D).
- 湖 远星 contributed 14 glyphs to CJK Unified Ideographs Extensions B and C and updated U+5C81 and U+6708.
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21 September 2023 (Unifont 15.1.02)
- 湖 远星:
- Adjusted 46 glyphs in the Plane 0 Wen Quan Yi range, U+2F00..U+9FFF.
- Contributed Plane 3 CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G glyphs in the range U+30000..U+3017F.
- 湖 远星:
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12 September 2023 (Unifont 15.1.01)
- As mentioned during the year leading up to this release, TrueType fonts are no longer produced by the default build; OpenType fonts have taken their place. This change has been driven by the diminishing support for TrueType fonts in the Pango font rendering engine. TrueType fonts can still be built from the distribution tarball using the command "make truetype" in the font directory.
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Ho-Seok Ee proposed a new Johab encoding for algorithmic Hangul Syllables generation. The resulting scheme uses 6 variations of initial consonants (choseong), 3 of medial vowels and diphthongs (jungseong), and 1 of final consonants (jongseong). The image on the left is partial output from a new supporting Unifont utility, unijohab2html, which gives an overview of how the three components of a Hangul syllable combine with each other and outputs any overlaps for a font designer's analysis. A full discussion of this new Johab 6/3/1 encoding appears on the Unifont Hangul Syllables Generation web page. Minseo Lee (이민서) provided feedback on the glyphs prior to their release. -
Following a suggestion by Ho-Seok Ee, the
hangul-base.hexfile that contains the Johab 6/3/1 glyphs for Hangul syllable formation now begins at code point U+E000. This allows building a Unifont variant with that entire Hangul johab glyph set in the Uniode Plane 0 Private Use Area (PUA) using the command "make PUA=plane00/hangul/hangul-base.hex". in the font directory. Unifont builds have traditionally left the PUA available for CSUR/UCSUR glyphs, which is still the default; see below for a discussion of the CSUR/UCSUR glyphs. - Johnnie Weaver modified "IJ" ligature glyphs U+0132 and U+0133. He also modified U+1E9E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S.
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Paul Hardy:
- Modified U+2CC2 COPTIC CAPITAL LETTER CROSSED SHEI and U+2CC3 COPTIC SMALL LETTER CROSSED SHEI for consistency with the redrawn U+03E2 COPTIC CAPITAL LETTER SHEI and U+03E3 COPTIC SMALL LETTER SHEI.
- Redrew Ideographic Description Characters (U+2FF0..U+2FFB) for consistency and added new glyphs (U+2FFC..U+2FFF). Also added CJK Strokes glyph U+31EF IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER SUBTRACTION.
- Modified star glyphs U+2605, U+2606, and U+2BE8 for consistency.
- Modified several Chinese ideographs and Korean ideographs in CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A (U+3400..U+4DBF) per the Unicode Standard version 15.1.0.
- Wen Quan Yi Glyphs: Made modifications to Korean ideographs in CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A (U+3400..U+4DBF) per Unicode 15.1.0 changes. Modified CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A U+3B9D, U+454E, U+49C8 (from 湖 远星) and U+56B8. Modified CJK Unified Ideographs Extension U+809E and U+891D.
- Modified Alchemical Symbols (U+1F700..U+1F77F) per Unicode 15.1.0 changes.
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Added three hexadecimal digit notations to the Plane 0 UCSUR:
- U+EBE0..U+EBEF: Boby Lapointe's "bibi-binary" notation.
- U+EBF0..U+EBFF: Bruce Alan Martin's bit location notation.
- U+ECF0..U+ECFF: Ronald O. Whitaker's triangular notation.
- Implemented other glyph changes per the Unicode Standard version 15.1.0.
- Several other minor changes; see the ChangeLog file in the main tarball for details.
Unifont 15.0
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4 June 2023 (Unifont 15.0.06)
N.B.: This is expected to be the last release with TrueType fonts built by default; OpenType versions will replace the legacy TrueType fonts in future releases. It will still be possible to manually build the TrueType fonts in the future with the "make truetype" command in the font directory. That make command is already implemented and so is available for experimentation.
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Minseo Lee (이민서) made further modifications to the glyphs used to generate the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00..U+D7A3), and modified Hangul glyphs in the ranges U+3131.U+318E, U+3200..U+321E, and U+3260..U+327F to match the style of the new Hangul Syllables glyphs.
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3 June 2023 (Unifont 15.0.05)
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Minseo Lee (이민서) has contributed a new Hangul Syllables block of 11,172 glyphs generated by the Unifont package's
johab2ucs2script, which he altered slightly. Details are in the ChangeLog file.
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28 May 2023 (Unifont 15.0.04)
This release is a minor update with some redrawn Greek and Coptic letters (U+0370..U+03FF): tonos moved down and to the left of capital vowels, baselines and x-heights adjusted for consistency, etc. Two redrawn heart icons. Glyphs for the CSUR script Engsvanyáli have also been added. Full details are in the ChangeLog file.
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21 May 2023 (Unifont 15.0.03)
Minor update with some Makefile modifications. The one notable change is thatunifont_all.hexis now installed in the.../share/unifontdirectory, at the request of the gaming community. This hex file spans all Unicode planes. Theunifont_jp.hexfile now also includes the Plane 3 glyphs by Ming Fan. -
20 May 2023 (Unifont 15.0.02)
- Full GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 2 support: Added Plane 2 Chinese ideographs drawn by 湖 远星 to the basic Unifont font files for coverage of the General Standard Chinese Characters set. Also added Plane 3 glyphs drawn by Ming Fan, with permission.
- Updated Fullwidth CJK characters in the range U+FF00..U+FFEF so they no longer appear boldface, using glyphs from Wen Quan Yi with some modifications. Thanks to 何志翔 (He Zhixiang) for checking their alignment and suggesting improvements.
- Minor updates to other individual glyphs, notably a much improved skunk glyph (U+1F9A8) from Curtis Mackie. See the ChangeLog file in the release tar file for full details.
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13 September 2022 (Unifont 15.0.01)
- Unicode Plane 0
- David Corbett moved Arabic glyph U+08AC up.
- Paul Hardy added new Kannada glyph U+0CF3, new Lao glyph U+0ECE, and modified U+0264 (Latin Small Letter Ram's Horn) to more closely resemble its revised form.
- Johnnie Weaver adjusted U+26CA (Turned Black Shogi Piece).
- Unicode Plane 1
- David Corbett added new glyphs in these ranges:
- U+10EFD..U+10EFF Arabic Extended-C*
- U+1DF25..U+1DF2A Latin Extended-G.
- Paul Hardy added new glyphs in these ranges:
- U+1123F..U+11241 Khojki
- U+11B00..U+11B5F Devanagari Extended-A*
- U+11F00..U+11F5F Kawi*
- U+1D2C0..U+1D2DF Kaktovik Numerals*
- U+1E030..U+1E08F Cyrillic Extended-D*
- U+1F6DC Transport and Map Symbols
- U+1F700..U+1F77F Alchemical Symbols
- U+1F7D9 Geometric Shapes Extended
- U+1FA70..U+1FAFF Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A.
- Johnnie Weaver added new glyphs in these ranges:
- U+1B132 and U+1B155 Small Kana Extension
- U+1E4D0..U+1E4FF Nag Mundari*.
- David Corbett added new glyphs in these ranges:
- Under ConScript Unicode Registry (UCSUR)
- Paul Hardy added Syai (U+E1D0..U+E1FF) and Sarkai (U+E360..U+E37F).
- David Corbett added Iranic (U+ED80..U+EDAF).
*New in Unicode 15.0.0.
- Unicode Plane 0
Earlier Releases
See the Archive link at the top of this page for information on earlier Unifont releases.
Unifont Glyph Tables
Unifont font files contain glyphs in several Unicode planes. The following table provides an overview of this coverage.
| GNU Unifont Font File Plane Coverage | ||||||
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| Font Filename | Plane 0 | Plane 1 | Plane 2 | Plane 3 | Plane 14 | Plane 15 |
unifont-* |
X | X1,2 | X1,2 | |||
unifont_jp-* |
X | X1,2 | X1,2 | |||
unifont_upper-* |
X | X3 | X3 | X | ||
unifont_csur-* |
X | X | ||||
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Notes: 1PCF fonts can only include glyphs in Plane 0. 2Only a subset of Plane 2 and Plane 3 CJK glyphs plus the Plane 1 Copyleft glyph (U+1F12F) are included, to stay within the OpenType limit of 65,536 glyphs.
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Click on each link in the tables below to show its corresponding 256-code point range within the respective Unicode planes.
Plane 0 Glyphs
The table below links to the glyphs in the Plane 0 (Basic
Multilingual Plane) unifont font files.
|
GNU Unifont Glyphs
Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 0A | 0B | 0C | 0D | 0E | 0F |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 1A | 1B | 1C | 1D | 1E | 1F |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 2A | 2B | 2C | 2D | 2E | 2F |
| 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 3A | 3B | 3C | 3D | 3E | 3F |
| 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 4A | 4B | 4C | 4D | 4E | 4F |
| 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 5A | 5B | 5C | 5D | 5E | 5F |
| 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 6A | 6B | 6C | 6D | 6E | 6F |
| 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 7A | 7B | 7C | 7D | 7E | 7F |
| 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 8A | 8B | 8C | 8D | 8E | 8F |
| 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 9A | 9B | 9C | 9D | 9E | 9F |
| A0 | A1 | A2 | A3 | A4 | A5 | A6 | A7 | A8 | A9 | AA | AB | AC | AD | AE | AF |
| B0 | B1 | B2 | B3 | B4 | B5 | B6 | B7 | B8 | B9 | BA | BB | BC | BD | BE | BF |
| C0 | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | C5 | C6 | C7 | C8 | C9 | CA | CB | CC | CD | CE | CF |
| D0 | D1 | D2 | D3 | D4 | D5 | D6 | D7 | Surrogate Pairs | |||||||
| Private Use Area | |||||||||||||||
| Private Use Area | F9 | FA | FB | FC | FD | FE | FF | ||||||||
This next table links to the glyphs in the Plane 0 (Basic
Multilingual Plane) unifont_jp Japanese variant font files.
See also the Plane 2 glyphs further down, which are only
included in the unifont_jp OpenType and TrueType font files.
| GNU Unifont Glyphs — Japanese Version with Page Coverage for Plane 0 (Green=100%, Red=0%) | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 0A | 0B | 0C | 0D | 0E | 0F |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 1A | 1B | 1C | 1D | 1E | 1F |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 2A | 2B | 2C | 2D | 2E | 2F |
| 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 3A | 3B | 3C | 3D | 3E | 3F |
| 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 4A | 4B | 4C | 4D | 4E | 4F |
| 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 5A | 5B | 5C | 5D | 5E | 5F |
| 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 6A | 6B | 6C | 6D | 6E | 6F |
| 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 7A | 7B | 7C | 7D | 7E | 7F |
| 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 8A | 8B | 8C | 8D | 8E | 8F |
| 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 9A | 9B | 9C | 9D | 9E | 9F |
| A0 | A1 | A2 | A3 | A4 | A5 | A6 | A7 | A8 | A9 | AA | AB | AC | AD | AE | AF |
| B0 | B1 | B2 | B3 | B4 | B5 | B6 | B7 | B8 | B9 | BA | BB | BC | BD | BE | BF |
| C0 | C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 | C5 | C6 | C7 | C8 | C9 | CA | CB | CC | CD | CE | CF |
| D0 | D1 | D2 | D3 | D4 | D5 | D6 | D7 | Surrogate Pairs | |||||||
| Private Use Area | |||||||||||||||
| Private Use Area | F9 | FA | FB | FC | FD | FE | FF | ||||||||
Plane 1 Glyphs
The next table links to glyphs in Plane 1 (Supplementary
Multilingual Plane) OpenType and TrueType unifont_upper
font files.
Plane 2 Glyphs
The table below links to the Japanese glyphs in Plane 2 (Supplementary Ideographic
Plane) contained in the unifont_jp OpenType and TrueType font files.
Note: These Plane 2 glyphs along with the Plane 0 glyphs in
unifont_jp font files provide complete coverage of the JIS X 0213
standard. Only 303 glyphs appear in the files below. Files with no glyphs appear
with a gray background.
This next table links to the Chinese glyphs in Plane 2 (Supplementary Ideographic
Plane) contained in unifont OpenType and TrueType font files.
Note: These Plane 2 glyphs along with the default Plane 0 glyphs
in Unifont provide complete coverage of the Table of General Standard Chinese
Characters (通用规范汉字表). Only 232 glyphs appear in the files below.
Files with no glyphs appear with a gray background.
Plane 3 Glyphs
Plane 3 begins with the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G block, from U+30000 through U+3134A. This includes the highly complex biang Chinese ideograph and taito Japanese ideograph:
- Biang (U+30EDD and U+30EDE)
- Taito (Kanji) (U+3106C).
Plane 14 Glyphs
This table links to the two ranges of 256 assigned code points
in Plane 14 (Tags and Variation Selector Supplement) that appear
in the unifont_upper OpenType and TrueType font files.
|
GNU Unifont Glyphs
Unicode Plane 14 | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0E00 | 0E01 | ||||||||||||||
Plane 0 and Plane 15 Private Use Area Glyphs
Finally, this last glyph table shows ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR)
and Under CSUR glyphs that appear in the unifont_csur OpenType
and TrueType font files. Not all of the Plane 0 CSUR and UCSUR scripts
have been drawn, but given the esoteric nature of some CSUR and UCSUR scripts
(including the unavailability of glyph samples for many of the more obscure
constructed scripts), the boxes in the table all have a green background color
even if not at 100% coverage.
|
GNU Unifont Glyphs
Private Use Area, Planes 0 and 15 — ConScript Unicode Registry | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E0 | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | EA | EB | EC | ED | EE | EF |
| F0 | F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | F5 | F6 | F7 | F8 | Unicode Assigned Code Points | ||||||
| 0F00 | 0F01 | 0F02 | 0F03 | 0F04 | 0F05 | 0F06 | 0F07 | 0F08 | 0F09 | 0F0A | 0F0B | 0F0C | 0F0D | 0F0E | 0F0F |
| 0F10 | 0F11 | 0F12 | 0F13 | 0F14 | 0F15 | 0F16 | 0F17 | 0F18 | 0F19 | 0F1A | 0F1B | 0F1C | 0F1D | 0F1E | 0F1F |
Contributing Glyphs
If you would like to contribute glyphs to the GNU Unifont effort, you can download the associated PNG file from the tables above (SMP and CSUR need additions). Then draw new glyphs in the 16-by-16 pixel area that is inside the inner box you see in the image on the left.
When done, erase the surrounding inner box and ruler lines around the inner box. You can then save the file as a monochrome bitmap image. Then convert the .png file into a .hex file with the unipng2hex utility in the source tarball. Or you can just email the .png file to me as a contribution to this effort and I will do the conversion.
Q: Why is the outer grid so much larger than the 16-by-16 pixel inner box?
A: Because in a future version, unipng2hex, unihex2png, and other utilities should be able to handle larger glyphs.
The table below shows the current state of completion of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (Plane 1). Any range in the table that doesn't have a green background has missing glyphs. To see which scripts are in a particular range, consult the "Supplementary Multilingual Plane" list in the Current Coverage section below. The more red a range appears in the table below, the more glyphs are missing from that range.
Current Coverage
Links in this section reference the first block of 256 glyphs where a script begins.
The list below shows the scripts that are in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane, with coverage in this release of Unifont.
Covered Range Script
------- ----- ------
100.0% U+0000..U+007F C0 Controls and Basic Latin
100.0% U+0080..U+00FF C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement
100.0% U+0100..U+017F Latin Extended-A
100.0% U+0180..U+024F Latin Extended-B
100.0% U+0250..U+02AF IPA Extensions
100.0% U+02B0..U+02FF Spacing Modifier Letters
100.0% U+0300..U+036F Combining Diacritical Marks
100.0% U+0370..U+03FF Greek and Coptic
100.0% U+0400..U+04FF Cyrillic
100.0% U+0500..U+052F Cyrillic Supplement
100.0% U+0530..U+058F Armenian
100.0% U+0590..U+05FF Hebrew
100.0% U+0600..U+06FF Arabic
100.0% U+0700..U+074F Syriac
100.0% U+0750..U+077F Arabic Supplement
100.0% U+0780..U+07BF Thaana
100.0% U+07C0..U+07FF N'Ko
100.0% U+0800..U+083F Samaritan
100.0% U+0840..U+085F Mandaic
100.0% U+0860..U+086F Syriac Supplement
100.0% U+0870..U+089F Arabic Extended-B
100.0% U+08A0..U+08FF Arabic Extended-A
100.0% U+0900..U+097F Devanagari
100.0% U+0980..U+09FF Bengali
100.0% U+0A00..U+0A7F Gurmukhi
100.0% U+0A80..U+0AFF Gujarati
100.0% U+0B00..U+0B7F Oriya
100.0% U+0B80..U+0BFF Tamil
100.0% U+0C00..U+0C7F Telugu
100.0% U+0C80..U+0CFF Kannada
100.0% U+0D00..U+0D7F Malayalam
100.0% U+0D80..U+0DFF Sinhala
100.0% U+0E00..U+0E7F Thai
100.0% U+0E80..U+0EFF Lao
100.0% U+0F00..U+0FFF Tibetan
100.0% U+1000..U+109F Myanmar
100.0% U+10A0..U+10FF Georgian
100.0% U+1100..U+11FF Hangul Jamo
100.0% U+1200..U+137F Ethiopic
100.0% U+1380..U+139F Ethiopic Supplement
100.0% U+13A0..U+13FF Cherokee
100.0% U+1400..U+167F Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
100.0% U+1680..U+169F Ogham
100.0% U+16A0..U+16FF Runic
100.0% U+1700..U+171F Tagalog
100.0% U+1720..U+173F Hanunoo
100.0% U+1740..U+175F Buhid
100.0% U+1760..U+177F Tagbanwa
100.0% U+1780..U+17FF Khmer
100.0% U+1800..U+18AF Mongolian
100.0% U+18B0..U+18FF Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended
100.0% U+1900..U+194F Limbu
100.0% U+1950..U+197F Tai Le
100.0% U+1980..U+19DF New Tai Lue
100.0% U+19E0..U+19FF Khmer Symbols
100.0% U+1A00..U+1A1F Buginese
100.0% U+1A20..U+1AAF Tai Tham
100.0% U+1AB0..U+1AFF Combining Diacritical Marks Extended
100.0% U+1B00..U+1B7F Balinese
100.0% U+1B80..U+1BBF Sundanese
100.0% U+1BC0..U+1BFF Batak
100.0% U+1C00..U+1C4F Lepcha
100.0% U+1C50..U+1C7F Ol Chiki
100.0% U+1C80..U+1C8F Cyrillic Extended-C
100.0% U+1C90..U+1CBF Georgian Extended
100.0% U+1CC0..U+1CCF Sundanese Supplement
100.0% U+1CD0..U+1CFF Vedic Extensions
100.0% U+1D00..U+1D7F Phonetic Extensions
100.0% U+1D80..U+1DBF Phonetic Extensions Supplement
100.0% U+1DC0..U+1DFF Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement
100.0% U+1E00..U+1EFF Latin Extended Additional
100.0% U+1F00..U+1FFF Greek Extended
100.0% U+2000..U+206F General Punctuation
100.0% U+2070..U+209F Superscripts and Subscripts
100.0% U+20A0..U+20CF Currency Symbols
100.0% U+20D0..U+20FF Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols
100.0% U+2100..U+214F Letterlike Symbols
100.0% U+2150..U+218F Number Forms
100.0% U+2190..U+21FF Arrows
100.0% U+2200..U+22FF Mathematical Operators
100.0% U+2300..U+23FF Miscellaneous Technical
100.0% U+2400..U+243F Control Pictures
100.0% U+2440..U+245F Optical Character Recognition
100.0% U+2460..U+24FF Enclosed Alphanumerics
100.0% U+2500..U+257F Box Drawing
100.0% U+2580..U+259F Block Elements
100.0% U+25A0..U+25FF Geometric Shapes
100.0% U+2600..U+26FF Miscellaneous Symbols
100.0% U+2700..U+27BF Dingbats
100.0% U+27C0..U+27EF Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
100.0% U+27F0..U+27FF Supplemental Arrows-A
100.0% U+2800..U+28FF Braille Patterns
100.0% U+2900..U+297F Supplemental Arrows-B
100.0% U+2980..U+29FF Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
100.0% U+2A00..U+2AFF Supplemental Mathematical Operators
100.0% U+2B00..U+2BFF Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
100.0% U+2C00..U+2C5F Glagolithic
100.0% U+2C60..U+2C7F Latin Extended-C
100.0% U+2C80..U+2CFF Coptic
100.0% U+2D00..U+2D2F Georgian Supplement
100.0% U+2D30..U+2D7F Tifinagh
100.0% U+2D80..U+2DDF Ethiopic Extended
100.0% U+2DE0..U+2DFF Cyrillic Extended-A
100.0% U+2E00..U+2E7F Supplemental Punctuation
100.0% U+2E80..U+2EFF CJK Radicals Supplement
100.0% U+2F00..U+2FDF Kangxi Radicals
100.0% U+2FE0..U+2FEF Unassigned
100.0% U+2FF0..U+2FFF Ideographic Description Characters
100.0% U+3000..U+303F CJK Symbols and Punctuation
100.0% U+3040..U+309F Hiragana
100.0% U+30A0..U+30FF Katakana
100.0% U+3100..U+312F Bopomofo
100.0% U+3130..U+318F Hangul Compatibility Jamo
100.0% U+3190..U+319F Kanbun
100.0% U+31A0..U+31BF Bopomofo Extended
100.0% U+31C0..U+31EF CJK Strokes
100.0% U+31F0..U+31FF Katakana Phonetic Extensions
100.0% U+3200..U+32FF Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
100.0% U+3300..U+33FF CJK Compatibility
100.0% U+3400..U+4DBF CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
100.0% U+4DC0..U+4DFF Yijing Hexagram Symbols
100.0% U+4E00..U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs
100.0% U+A000..U+A48F Yi Syllables
100.0% U+A490..U+A4CF Yi Radicals
100.0% U+A4D0..U+A4FF Lisu
100.0% U+A500..U+A63F Vai
100.0% U+A640..U+A69F Cyrillic Extended-B
100.0% U+A6A0..U+A6FF Bamum
100.0% U+A700..U+A71F Modifier Tone Letters
100.0% U+A720..U+A7FF Latin Extended-D
100.0% U+A800..U+A82F Syloti Nagri
100.0% U+A830..U+A83F Common Indic Number Forms
100.0% U+A840..U+A87F Phags-pa
100.0% U+A880..U+A8DF Saurashtra
100.0% U+A8E0..U+A8FF Devanagari Extended
100.0% U+A900..U+A92F Kayah Li
100.0% U+A930..U+A95F Rejang
100.0% U+A960..U+A97F Hangul Jamo Extended-A
100.0% U+A980..U+A9DF Javanese
100.0% U+A9E0..U+A9FF Myanmar Extended-B
100.0% U+AA00..U+AA5F Cham
100.0% U+AA60..U+AA7F Myanmar Extended-A
100.0% U+AA80..U+AADF Tai Viet
100.0% U+AAE0..U+AAFF Meetei Mayek Extensions
100.0% U+AB00..U+AB2F Ethiopic Extended-A
100.0% U+AB30..U+AB6F Latin Extended-E
100.0% U+AB70..U+ABBF Cherokee Supplement
100.0% U+ABC0..U+ABFF Meetei Mayek
100.0% U+AC00..U+D7AF Hangul Syllables
100.0% U+D7B0..U+D7FF Hangul Jamo Extended-B
0.0% U+D800..U+DFFF Surrogate Pairs - Not Used
0.0% U+E000..U+F8FF Private Use Area - drawn but not included
100.0% U+F900..U+FAFF CJK Compatibility Ideographs
100.0% U+FB00..U+FB4F Alphabetic Presentation Forms
100.0% U+FB50..U+FDFF Arabic Presentation Forms-A
100.0% U+FE00..U+FE0F Variation Selectors
100.0% U+FE10..U+FE1F Vertical Forms
100.0% U+FE20..U+FE2F Combining Half Marks
100.0% U+FE30..U+FE4F CJK Compatibility Forms
100.0% U+FE50..U+FE6F Small Form Variants
100.0% U+FE70..U+FEFF Arabic Presentation Forms-B
100.0% U+FF00..U+FFEF Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
100.0% U+FFF0..U+FFFF Specials
The list below shows the scripts that are in the Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane, with coverage in this release of Unifont. Scripts labeled "(Pending)" are being drawn currently.
Covered Range Script
------- ----- ------
100.0% U+010000..U+01007F Linear B Syllabary
100.0% U+010080..U+0100FF Linear B Ideograms
100.0% U+010100..U+01013F Aegean Numbers
100.0% U+010140..U+01018F Ancient Greek Numbers
100.0% U+010190..U+0101CF Ancient Symbols
100.0% U+0101D0..U+0101FF Phaistos Disc
100.0% U+010280..U+01029F Lycian
100.0% U+0102A0..U+0102DF Carian
100.0% U+0102E0..U+0102FF Coptic Epact Numbers
100.0% U+010300..U+01032F Old Italic
100.0% U+010330..U+01034F Gothic
100.0% U+010350..U+01037F Old Permic
100.0% U+010380..U+01039F Ugaritic
100.0% U+0103A0..U+0103DF Old Persian
100.0% U+010400..U+01044F Deseret
100.0% U+010450..U+01047F Shavian
100.0% U+010480..U+0104AF Osmanya
100.0% U+0104B0..U+0104FF Osage
100.0% U+010500..U+01052F Elbasan
100.0% U+010530..U+01056F Caucasian Albanian
100.0% U+010570..U+0105BF Vithkuqi
100.0% U+0105C0..U+0105FF Todhri
100.0% U+010600..U+01077F Linear A
100.0% U+010780..U+0107BF Latin Extended-F
100.0% U+010800..U+01083F Cypriot Syllabary
100.0% U+010840..U+01085F Imperial Aramaic
100.0% U+010860..U+01087F Palmyrene
100.0% U+010880..U+0108AF Nabataean
100.0% U+0108E0..U+0108FF Hatran
100.0% U+010900..U+01091F Phoenecian
100.0% U+010920..U+01093F Lydian
100.0% U+010980..U+01099F Meroitic Hieroglyphs
100.0% U+0109A0..U+0109FF Meroitic Cursive
100.0% U+010A00..U+010A5F Kharoshthi
100.0% U+010A60..U+010A7F Old South Arabian
100.0% U+010A80..U+010A9F Old North Arabian
100.0% U+010AC0..U+010AFF Manichaean
100.0% U+010B00..U+010B3F Avestan
100.0% U+010B40..U+010B5F Inscriptional Parthian
100.0% U+010B60..U+010B7F Inscriptional Pahlavi
100.0% U+010B80..U+010BAF Psalter Pahlavi
100.0% U+010C00..U+010C4F Old Turkic
100.0% U+010C80..U+010CFF Old Hungarian
100.0% U+010D00..U+010D3F Hanifi Rohingya
100.0% U+010D40..U+010D8F Garay
100.0% U+010E60..U+010E7F Rumi Numeral Symbols
100.0% U+010E80..U+010EBF Yezidi
100.0% U+010EC0..U+010EFF Arabic Extended-C
100.0% U+010F00..U+010F2F Old Sogdian
100.0% U+010F30..U+010F6F Sogdian
100.0% U+010F70..U+010FAF Old Uyghur
100.0% U+010FB0..U+010FDF Chorasmian
100.0% U+010FE0..U+010FFF Elymaic
100.0% U+011000..U+01107F Brahmi
100.0% U+011080..U+0110CF Kaithi
100.0% U+0110D0..U+0110FF Sora Sompeng
100.0% U+011100..U+01114F Chakma
100.0% U+011150..U+01117F Mahajani
100.0% U+011180..U+0111DF Sharada
100.0% U+0111E0..U+0111FF Sinhala Archaic Numbers
100.0% U+011200..U+01124F Khojki
100.0% U+011280..U+0112AF Multani
100.0% U+0112B0..U+0112FF Khudawadi
100.0% U+011300..U+01137F Grantha
100.0% U+011380..U+0113FF Tulu-Tigalari
100.0% U+011400..U+01147F Newa
100.0% U+011480..U+0114DF Tirhuta
100.0% U+011580..U+0115FF Siddham
100.0% U+011600..U+01165F Modi
100.0% U+011660..U+01167F Mongolian Supplement
100.0% U+011680..U+0116CF Takri
100.0% U+0116D0..U+0116FF Myanmar Extended-C
100.0% U+011700..U+01174F Ahom
100.0% U+011800..U+01184F Dogra
100.0% U+0118A0..U+0118FF Warang Citi
100.0% U+011900..U+01195F Dives Akuru
100.0% U+0119A0..U+0119FF Nandinagari
100.0% U+011A00..U+011A4F Zanabazar Square
100.0% U+011A50..U+011AAF Soyombo
100.0% U+011AB0..U+011ABF Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended-A
100.0% U+011AC0..U+011AFF Pau Cin Hau
100.0% U+011BC0..U+011BFF Sunuwar
100.0% U+011C00..U+011C6F Bhaiksuki
100.0% U+011C70..U+011CBF Marchen
100.0% U+011D00..U+011D5F Masaram Gondi
100.0% U+011D60..U+011DAF Gunjala Gondi
100.0% U+011EE0..U+011EFF Makasar
100.0% U+011F00..U+011F5F Kawi
100.0% U+011FC0..U+011FFF Tamil Supplement
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*
100.0% U+012F90..U+012FFF Cypro-Minoan
0.0% U+013000..U+01342F Egyptian Hieroglyphs*
100.0% U+013430..U+01343F Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls
0.0% U+014400..U+01467F Anatolian Hieroglyphs*
0.0% U+016100..U+01613F Gurung Khema
0.0% U+016800..U+0168BF Bamum Supplement*
100.0% U+016A40..U+016A6F Mro
100.0% U+016A70..U+016ACF Tangsa
100.0% U+016AD0..U+016AFF Bassa Vah
100.0% U+016D40..U+016D7F Kirat Rai
100.0% U+016B00..U+016B8F Pahawh Hmong
100.0% U+016E40..U+016E9F Medefaidrin
100.0% U+016F00..U+016F9F Miao
100.0% U+016FE0..U+016FFF Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation
0.0% U+017000..U+0187FF Tangut
0.0% U+018800..U+018AFF Tangut Components
100.0% U+018B00..U+018CFF Khitan Small Script
0.0% U+018D00..U+018D7F Tangut Supplement
100.0% U+01AFF0..U+01AFFF Kana Extended-B
100.0% U+01B000..U+01B0FF Kana Supplement
100.0% U+01B100..U+01B12F Kana Extended-A
100.0% U+01B130..U+01B16F Small Kana Extension
100.0% U+01B170..U+01B2FF Nushu
100.0% U+01BC00..U+01BC9F Duployan
100.0% U+01BCA0..U+01BCAF Shorthand Format Controls
100.0% U+01CC00..U+01CEBF Symbols for Legacy Computing
100.0% U+01CF00..U+01CFCF Znamenny Musical Notation
100.0% U+01D000..U+01D0FF Byzantine Musical Symbols
100.0% U+01D100..U+01D1FF Musical Symbols
100.0% U+01D200..U+01D24F Ancient Greek Musical Notation
100.0% U+01D2E0..U+01D2FF Mayan Numerals
100.0% U+01D300..U+01D35F Tai Xuan Jing Symbols
100.0% U+01D360..U+01D37F Counting Rod Numerals
100.0% U+01D400..U+01D7FF Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
100.0% U+01D800..U+01DAAF Sutton SignWriting
100.0% U+01DF00..U+01DFFF Latin Extended-G
100.0% U+01E000..U+01E02F Glagolitic Supplement
100.0% U+01E100..U+01E14F Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong
100.0% U+01E290..U+01E2BF Toto
100.0% U+01E2C0..U+01E2FF Wancho
100.0% U+01E5D0..U+01E5FF Ol Onal
100.0% U+01E7E0..U+01E7FF Ethiopic Extended-B
100.0% U+01E800..U+01E8DF Mende Kikakui
100.0% U+01E900..U+01E95F Adlam
100.0% U+01EC70..U+01ECBF Indic Siyaq Numbers
100.0% U+01ED00..U+01ED4F Ottoman Siyaq Numbers
100.0% U+01EE00..U+01EEFF Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols
100.0% U+01F000..U+01F02F Mahjong Tiles
100.0% U+01F030..U+01F09F Domino Tiles
100.0% U+01F0A0..U+01F0FF Playing Cards
100.0% U+01F100..U+01F1FF Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
100.0% U+01F200..U+01F2FF Enclosed Ideographic Supplement
100.0% U+01F300..U+01F5FF Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
100.0% U+01F600..U+01F64F Emoticons
100.0% U+01F650..U+01F67F Ornamental Dingbats
100.0% U+01F680..U+01F6FF Transport and Map Symbols
100.0% U+01F700..U+01F77F Alchemical Symbols
100.0% U+01F780..U+01F7FF Geometric Shapes Extended
100.0% U+01F800..U+01F8FF Supplemental Arrows-C
100.0% U+01F900..U+01F9FF Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
100.0% U+01FA00..U+01FA6F Chess Symbols
100.0% U+01FA70..U+01FAFF Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A
100.0% U+01FB00..U+01FBFF Symbols for Legacy Computing
*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.
Plane 14 has two scripts, both of which Unifont covers:
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| U+0E0000..U+0E007F | Tags | ||||||||||||||
| U+0E0100..U+0E01EF | Variations Selectors Supplement | ||||||||||||||
The list below shows the scripts that are in Michael Everson's ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) and Rebecca Bettencourt's Under-CSUR that have coverage in this release of Unifont:
Initially I just posted my additions to Roman Czyborra's original unifont.hex file. Then in mid-January 2008, his website went down. So I started posting font updates here. Roman has encouraged me to continue with my additions.
Roman's website is now back online, and you can read his Unifont description and motivation for its creation on his website, along with his archive of Unifont's changes: http://czyborra.com/unifont.
TrueType Font Generation
Luis Alejandro González Miranda wrote a cool combination of scripts to convert GNU Unifont from .hex format into FontForge .sfd format, then to have FontForge convert this to a TrueType outline font (see the Unicode Utilities web page on this site for more information). Pixels are drawn as outlined squares, so they scale to all point sizes. This works well with GNOME; I haven't tried it with any other Unix windowing environment. I've removed the OpenType SBIT font link from this page because the outline font is much more flexible.
Luis has given me permission to modify his scripts to convert the latest GNU Unifont versions to TrueType. I've modified his original scripts to handle Unicode combining characters.
JIS X 0213 Kanji
Jiskan16
Unifont 12.1.02 added Japanese BDF and TrueType versions,
unifont_jp. This replaced over 10,000 ideographs
in the default Unifont font with Japanese kanji from the 16 × 16
pixel Jiskan 16 font. The font is available in two files,
corresponding to the two planes in JIS X 0213. Both files are
in the public domain.
The comments in the BDF source font files (downloadable from the Japanese Fonts page) credit the following contributors (in order): Toshiyuki Imamura, HANATAKA Shinya, Taichi Kawabata, Koichi Yasuoka, TOYOSHIMA Masayuki, Kazuo Koike, and SATO Yasunao.
For the Unifont release, the glyphs from the two JIS X 0213 planes were converted into Unifont .hex files and mapped to code points in Unicode's Plane 0 and Plane 2 for Unifont. The result provides complete representation of the kanji in JIS X 0213 in a free Unicode font.
Izumi16
Unifont 12.1.03 replaced the Jiskan16 glyphs with the public domain Izumi16 glyphs. These provide improvements on the earlier Jiskan16 glyphs.
Wen Quan Yi: Spring of Letters (文泉驛 / 文泉驿)
The original Unifont CJK glyphs were replaced by new CJK glyphs from version 1.1 of Qianqian Fang's Unibit font. The Unibit font began as a combination of the original GNU Unifont glyphs and a basic CJK bitmap font placed in the public domain by the People's Republic of China. It adopted GNU Unifont's scheme of 8x16 and 16x16 glyphs. Qianqian Fang and many others then added about 10,000 more glyphs.
Qianqian states in the Unibit distribution: "The entire CJK Unified Ideographics (U4E00-U9FA5) and CJK Unified Ideographics Extension A(U3400-U4DB5) blocks were replaced by high-quality glyphs from China National Standard GB19966-2005 (public domain)." Wen Quan Yi volunteeers then edited thousands of these characters. Qianqian also drew the new 22 CJK ideographs in the range U+9FA6..U+9FBB that appear in GNU Unifont.
Wen Quan Yi (WQY) means "spring of letters," as in a spring of water. This is an interesting choice of words, as the British spelling of "font" is "fount" (but still pronounced "font"). See his website for more details: http://wqy.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/enindex.cgi, or in Chinese at http://wenq.org/wqy2/index.cgi.
The following code points in the latest unifont.hex file are taken from the WQY Unibit font (with my additions to complete the U+3000..U+33FF range, particularly the missing Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji), including glyphs updated by the Wen Quan Yi volunteers and other modifications as part of the Unifont font:
- U+2E80..U+2EFF: CJK Radicals Supplement
- U+2F00..U+2FDF: Kangxi Radicals
- U+2FF0..U+2FFF: Ideographic Description Characters
- U+3000..U+303F: CJK Symbols and Punctuation
- U+31C0..U+31EF: CJK Strokes
- U+3200..U+32FF: Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
- U+3300..U+33FF: CJK Compatibility
- U+3400..U+4DBF: CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
- U+4E00..U+9FBF: CJK Unified Ideographs
- U+F900..U+FAFF: CJK Compatibility Ideographs
- U+FF00..U+FF60: Fullwidth Forms of Roman Letters
Qianqian has given his okay to add these CJK glyphs from the Wen Quan Yi project into GNU Unifont. Likewise, I've told him to incorporate any glyphs he wants from my contributions to GNU Unifont into his Unibit font. In October 2020, Qianqian Fang also granted permission to apply the SIL Open Font License version 1.1 to Wen Quan Yi glyphs in Unifont as a dual license.
What's Next?
All of the glyphs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane that could easily be drawn in a 16-by-16 pixel grid have been drawn as of the Unifont 9.0.01 release. There are no plans to draw Tangut. A number of ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) scripts remain to be drawn. If you are interested in contributing glyphs to this effort, please contact me. All new contributions must be licensed under the same license as the rest of Unifont (in a nutshell, GPL 2+ with the GNU font embedding exception and the SIL OFL 1.1).
With the great work done by contributors in providing ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) glyphs, they are available in font files that have "_csur" in their name.
