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Ethoma is a simple, low-resolution pixel bitmap font, intended to share the industrial, squared visual style seen in Tahoma and MS Sans Serif.
Originally known as Elt. Sistema, Ethoma was designed by Daniel Philip Fox and initially released in May 2017, as a font for personal use which gave the robust results of MS Sans Serif, but avoiding licensing and distribution issues and refining some glyphs for better legibility and crispness. Over time, the font gained incremental changes, for example increasing the roundness of certain glyphs such as the lowercase 'n', eventually forming the present-day version of Ethoma, a highly legible and pixel-optimised bitmap font optimised for any length of body text, without sacrificing the delicious classic look.
Bitmapped style font. (10x10)
The Unicode bitmap font from Minecraft, also known as GNU Unifont. The game has a font priority system called "providers" that looks for bitmap data for a specific character in the non-Latin European character set first, then in the accented Latin character set, then in the game's low-res default font, then finally here, in the high-res Unicode character set. You can override this priority system by going into Options... > Language..., then setting "Force Unicode Font" to ON.
The game stores this font in images containing 16 rows and 16 columns of characters. Each character is 16 pixels wide and 16 pixels tall, totalling 256 characters per image. Each image represents one Unicode codepage, and there are 256 pages, which covers characters U+0000 to U+FFFF. Control characters and most CJK characters are omitted here, because FontStruct doesn't officially support them.
The font is not monospace, however, so the effective widths of each character are stored in a separate file called glyph_sizes.bin. Information for each character is stored in one byte, and the upper and lower 4 bits of this byte represent the start column and end column with a number ranging from 0 to 15, where 0 is the leftmost column of the character's allotted 16x16 space, and 15 is the rightmost column, respectively.
Knowing all of this allowed me to automate most of the steps involved in creating this recreation. I did not use the FontStructor to make this, I instead used a program to directly interact with FontStruct's API. It is possible to add unsupported characters to a font with this method, but I chose to stay within the limits of what is officially supported.
Ver. 1.0(Beta, 9.21.2021): 1st release
--------------(When to start adding Chinese characters)---------------
Ver. 2.0(Beta): I found an Expert mode, so I added some Kanjis(一, 亜, 咽 and etc.)
Ver. 2.01(2022.05.22, Beta): More extended latin A and Added 31 Kanjis
Ver. 2.02(2022.05.25, Beta): Completed Latin ext_A block
Ver. 2.03(2022.05.26, Beta): Added CJK symbols block
Ver. 2.04(Beta): Plan of adding 20 Kanjis and Fixing glyph bugs
Ver. 2.05(2022.07.10, Beta): Added some of KS X 1001 symbols
Ver. 2.06(2022.07.11): Added 59 glyphs of Kanjis
Ver. 2.07(2022.07.12):Added some of Latin Ext_B glyphs
Ver. 2.08(2022.07.13):Added 30 glyphs of Kanjis more Latin Ext_B glyphs
Ver. 2.09(2022.07.14):Completed Latin Ext_B block and Added 15 glyphs of Hanjis and Fixed some of Hanji glyph's Bugs
Ver. 2.10(2022.07.18):Completed Hangul Compatibility Jamo Block and Added some glyphs of Latin Extended Additional Blocks
Ver. 2.11(2022.07.24):Completed Basic Russian Cylliric letters on 'Cylliric blocks'
Ver. 2.12(2022.07.25):More glyphs on Latin Exteneded Additional Blocks
-(CJK Unified Chinese Character Simplified Chinese Character Addition Start Time)------------------------------------------------------------
Ver. 3.0(2022.09.8~12): Added 30 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.1(2022.9.20): Some of more Kanjis
Ver. 3.1(2022.10.2~7): Added 30 glyphs of Kanjis
Ver. 3.2(2022.10.20~22): Added some of more kanjis
Ver. 3.21(2022.10.30): Added 8 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.3(2022.11.4):Added 10 glyphs of Latin and 6 glyphs of Hanguls
Ver. 3.4(2022.11.10):Added 21 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.41(2022.11.22):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.41(2022.11.24):Added 15 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.42(2022.11.25):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.43(2022.12.17):Added 15 glyphs of Cjk for Simplified Chinese
Ver. 3.5(2022.12.10):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Modern Chinese
Ver. 3.51(2022.12.21):Added 5 glyphs of Cjk for Modern Chinese
Ver. 3.6(2023.03.13):Added 10 glyphs of Cjk for Modern Chinese
Added so far of unified Kanji(Chinese) counts:Total of 293 glyphs
--------------------------Plans----------------------------------
1. Completing JIS 1 level of Kanjis
2. Completing JIS 2 level of Kanjis
3. Completing JIS 3 level of Kanjis
4. Making 2,351 glyphs of Hanguls(10/2351)
5. Adding extended Latin glyphs up to 'Latin extended additional'
6. Completing basic Arabic blocks
7. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese'
8. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'BIG 5 Common Character Set'
9. Completing KS X 1001 symbols
10. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'Table of General Standard Chinise Character'
11. Completing 'Russian cylliric' block
12. Completing Hanji glyphs on 'Xim Sans' (Total of 17912 glyphs)
Pixel aspect: 4:5 (1:1.25)
Found in some Acer, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo laptops that use an InsydeH2O BIOS.
It's very hard to find to find a replica of this font, so I decided to be one of the first to make this font.
07 OCT 2023: Added support for box drawing characters.
A light rounded variant of BlockTrain. Pixel/Bitmap style font with Rounded Edges
This is a clone of BlockTrain RoundedA light variant of BlockTrain. Pixel/Bitmap style font with Sqaure Edges
Addition Cyrillic letters made by "Dmitriy Sychiov" (Sychoff)