Accurate spacing is done with a SINGLE PIXEL ABOVE EACH CHARACTER, REMOVE THAT PIXEL to be correct.
I needed a micro font, something that could be done in the tiniest scale, and braille came to mind. it is decipherable, making it good for textures on signs or glyths in pixel art.
SHARE and USE as you wish, its just braille i hold no creative rule over this, literally anyone can make this exactly the same in 3 minutes or so, like i did.
JUST A SIMPLE 3×5 PIXEL FONT. THE CAPITALS HAVE A WHITE STRIKETHROUGH.
CHANGELOG
• 2017:03:10 — FIRST RELEASE.
• 2017:12:17 — ADDED QUITE A LOT MORE LATIN CHARACTERS, BRINGING THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF CHARACTERS TO SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN.
• 2017:12:18 — ADDED TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR CYRILLIC CHARACTERS, BRINGING THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF CHARACTERS TO A THOUSAND AND FORTY-ONE.
• 2017:12:20 — ADDED FIFTY ARABIC CHARACTERS, BRINGING THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF CHARACTERS TO A THOUSAND AND NINETY-ONE.
• 2018:01:05 — UPDATED THE CYRILLIC “И” AND “Й.”
• 2018:01:06 — ADDED TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX GREEK AND COPTIC CHARACTERS, BRAILLE AND OTHER SYMBOLS, BRINGING THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF CHARACTERS TO 1357. ALSO UPDATED THE CYRILLIC “Й.”
Just a typeface I work on from time to time. Progress is somewhat slow but irregular.
Currently more than 2900 characters.
Comments are appreciated.
Update 1-Nov: Added Supplemental Arrows-B, Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended, Variation Selectors
This font combines two simple ideas and puts them together. Braille and color theory.
I had a long time been holding on to this font (about 2 years) but decided that maybe someone out there would like it. Its complicated, in a way, but can end up being the most compressed "barcode" I have ever seen. (With the average letter taking up approximately 2 pixels when used in its "second form" but we will get into that later.
As with many of my fonts, is rooted in braille. So a knowledge in braille is neccesary. (Braille is very very easy to learn)
So heres the nuts and bolts. Lets take a 3 letter word in braille, say, "ice"
o| oo| o
o | | o
i c e
in of itself it takes three braille spots, but, what if we were to use color theory to compress it?
the first letter would be red, the second in yellow, the third in blue? You could have them occupy the same place and have no loss of information! Anywhere red overlapped the yellow, it would be orange, anywhere yellow overlapped blue it would be green! etc.
so, "Ice" could now be expressed as
green, orange
red, blue
The word "Ice" is conveyed in a 2x2 packet of colored pixels!
Which brings me to my font. "Rybian" (a play on words of "RedYellowBlue-ian" is a colorless way of expressing that same form.
red is a horizontal line
yellow is a circle
blue is a verticle line
so, logically, orange would be a circle with a horizontal line in it
green would be a circle with a verticle line in it
purple would be a verticle and horizontal line
A simple remake of my original Brixel, but made to be monospace and 8x8
(-Currently being extended-)
a pixelated unicode font that can be read at small sizes.
14 sept '22, 17:47:11 hkt / massive update. added coptic, spacing modifier letters and improved readability.
The first version was made in less than 20 mins!
Currently has 16176 glyphs and counting!
Latest Update: Edited φ and ⱷ to match with the canIPA extensions and edited з and ԑ to match with Cyrillic and -Supplement.
Pro tip for Myanmar: Use ေ and ႄ before a consonant to get the optimal vowel placement.
Pro tip for Devanagari: Use ि and ॎ before a consonant to get the optimal vowel placement.
Small Code is a grotesk monospaced font that is designed to include a variety of languages encoded in the BMP and SMP.
It also has a variety of letters in the PUA, such as capital versions of most Latin letters without capitals, characters for Latin letters not included in the Unicode standard, Swedish Dialect Alphabet compatibility characters, archaic IPA characters, Initial Teaching Alphabet characters, miscellaneous Cyrillic letters, Latin phonetic symbols, Tifinagh combined characters, alternate Latin letters for African languages and Polish, medieval extensions, unencoded and lowercase Roman numerals, unencoded mathematical symbols, numbers, superscripts and subscripts, unencoded control symbols, combining numbers, Unifon, unencoded fractions, IMFI forms of Arabic letters not encoded in Arabic Presentation Forms-A and -B, IMFI forms for Adlam, Powerline symbols, and coding ligatures.
This is my largest font yet!
This font has risen up to #5 on character count!
UPDATE: This font has fallen back to #8. :(
UPDATE 2: In the PUA, the upcoming Myanmar Extended-C block and Tai Khamti digits.
This font has extensions listed here:
Small Code PUA: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2268345/small-code-pua
- Modified clone of Vespa II
STILL WORK IN PROGRESS
- New symbols in many languages
- Working to make it unicode (will update at least once a month)
This is a clone of Vespa II