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Published: 31st May, 2008
Last edited: 21st April, 2010
Created: 31st May, 2008
The Braille system was developed by Louis Braille in 1821.
Mew Wins' Morse Code Alphabet (International) inspired me to make a Braille FontStruction. I have only drawn the basic, or Grade 1, version of the Braille alphabet here. (There is a contracted version of Braille, known as Grade 2, and another version which uses an 8 dot grid. In addition, there are special Braille characters for accented letters, but they are not all standardized, so for now I have stayed away from them.)
Special characters: There are no capital letters in Braille. Instead, there is a symbol for "capital letter follows," which I have placed in the "at" (@) symbol. The "number follows" symbol is usually placed in the space for the "number" symbol (#), so I've followed that convention.
In addition, I have copied the symbol for each letter into both the upper and lower case spaces, to make it easier to type something up (or select an existing text file) and switch the font to Braille (Basic).
840793
Published: 1st June, 2008
Last edited: 21st April, 2010
Created: 1st June, 2008
Clone of Braille (Basic). I swapped the hollow circles for small dots.
Special characters: There are no capital letters in Braille. Instead, there is a symbol for "capital letter follows," which I have placed in the "at" (@) symbol. The "number follows" symbol is usually placed in the space for the "number" symbol (#), so I've followed that convention. In addition, I have copied the symbol for each letter into both the upper and lower case spaces, to make it easier to type something up (or select an existing text file) and switch the font to Braille (Basic) Alternate.
This is a clone of Braille (Basic)
140860
Published: 30th September, 2008
Last edited: 30th September, 2008
Created: 30th September, 2008
Dies ist die "Braille" schrift.
Blinde Menschen benutzen sie
100520
Published: 26th January, 2009
Last edited: 27th January, 2009
Created: 26th January, 2009
Chainlink Visible Braille.
Type in lower case.
Shift+C = capital letter follows,
+N = number follows,
+Q = opening question mark,
+H = contraction for "ch",
+S = contraction for "sh",
+T = contraction for "th",
+7 (&) = contraction for the word "and".
I've put place markers on the characters "capital letter follows" (horizontal bars in positions 1 & 3) and "apostrophe" (vertical bars in positions 4 & 6) as an aide to distinguishing the two characters.
110520
Published: 7th February, 2009
Last edited: 17th February, 2009
Created: 7th February, 2009
Based on the Moon alphabet for the blind devised by William Moon (1818-1894). Use lower case for all letters, except for "wh" (shift +w), "ch" (shift +c), "th" (shift + t), "and" (shift +7), and "numerical sign" (shift +n).
P.s. I've decided to change the name from MoonGlow to MoonType as I've discovered that there's a commercial font available with the former name.
110990
Published: 15th April, 2009
Last edited: 18th April, 2009
Created: 2nd April, 2009
Keep in mind that this is not completely accurate. Don't use this as a reference.
262392
Published: 17th July, 2009
Last edited: 18th July, 2009
Created: 16th July, 2009
Latin alphabet for partially sighted people after William Moon (1818–1894).
Edgy square design.
N and Z are ugly.
271762
Published: 1st August, 2009
Last edited: 2nd August, 2009
Created: 1st August, 2009
Raphigraphy by Louis Braille (1839), according to http://www.fakoo.de/raphi/raphigrafie-alphabet.html
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Published: 25th November, 2009
Last edited: 23rd April, 2015
Created: 17th October, 2009
A monospaced pixel font with over 8000 glyphs! 7 pixels wide, 12 pixels tall. Some characters may be wider than 7 pixels to make them connect with other characters.
90300
Published: 26th December, 2009
Last edited: 26th December, 2009
Created: 26th December, 2009
Do you know the embossed printing?
Yes, another name is "BRAILLE".
That was my inspiration.
70980
Published: 31st January, 2010
Last edited: 31st January, 2010
Created: 31st January, 2010
/ denotes the capital symbol. # denotes the number symbol. Denote / with \, and \ with `.
80811
Published: 31st July, 2010
Last edited: 31st July, 2010
Created: 31st July, 2010
Braille Level One, no contractions. Please note that I am not a Braille expert and there are likely mistakes, and it is very hard to produce acceptable Braille using this font. This is more for fun. PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS FONT AS A GUIDE FOR PRODUCING REAL BRAILLE IN ANY IMPORTANT SITUATIONS...
Problems include: Not all punctuation is listed. Also, a number which is longer than one digit would not need to be prefixed with the number marker before every digit, only once. There are many conventions to Braille that this simplistic font will make hard to obey.
101993
Published: 4th August, 2010
Last edited: 15th January, 2012
Created: 1st August, 2010
A visual aide to learning the Braille Alphabet and numbers. May contain errors. Some people may find this method harmful or not helpful to their learning, so please be cautious. Also, it may help to design your own learning aide instead of using mine.This is a clone of Braille Level One
120661
Published: 16th December, 2010
Last edited: 16th December, 2010
Created: 25th November, 2010
InTacto: the font that allows you to read braille and text simultaneously.
30820
Published: 18th January, 2011
Last edited: 18th January, 2011
Created: 2nd June, 2010
Sort of Braille, sort of simpler, but will take a little getting used to.
30811
Published: 8th June, 2011
Last edited: 8th June, 2011
Created: 8th June, 2011
Clone of my Basic Braille, edited to have no extra dots.This is a clone of Basic Braille
60980
Published: 14th October, 2011
Last edited: 14th October, 2011
Created: 11th October, 2011
This is the second edition of LAB-Braille. LAB stands for (Lutz ASCII Binary). It is a form of writing that depending how it is printed, can be read by touch, sight, and sound. It is hard to explian in just a discription but dots are 1s and spaces are 0s. The first vertical line has 3 spaces while the second has 4, read from bottom to top. Example : A = 1000001. A computer would read it right to left, while we would write it left to right.
I found that having the last 3 binary in the front made it more easy to read. I think this might be the final standard. I am not fond that the code is read backwards from a computer, but it will still serve its purpose. Note that the "vertical line" symbol is different. I print this in a light grey on blank paper, making for neat fast writing.
50830
Published: 27th December, 2011
Last edited: 27th December, 2011
Created: 27th December, 2011
I made the capital letters bold... I have seen braille fonts on here, but capital and lowercase are all the same. I have also included as many punctuation and special characters as I could! Feel free to download!
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Published: 31st December, 2011
Last edited: 24th October, 2022
Created: 31st December, 2009
Here’s Noptical as it was meant to be. Two years in the making, still an ugly font!
But look: better spacing, 1333 glyphs, all latin variants you could wish for (including Vietnamese), Greek, Cyrillic, Braille, Yijing hexagrams, the not yet Unicode-encoded Rouble sign, interrobang (after a design by Adien Gunarta), even a tombstone!This is a clone of Noptical
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Published: 5th February, 2012
Last edited: 15th October, 2012
Created: 4th February, 2012
Pixel font with lower right corners cut. Best used with font size 24.