UnifontEX
stgiga.github.io
An extended fork of GNU Unifont with a focus on high compatibility.

6 years ago I set out to improve GNU Unifont, and finally after 6 years I have finished. It has MANY special Unicode symbols, including gender ones and plenty of technical ones. I use it as my IDE and terminal fonts on ALL my OSes. Oh and this time I fixed the link.

Also, “UnifontExMono.png” is both its own preview image as well as a proper build of the font for use cases where TTF and BDF are too big, like in character LCDs. I also do extensive documentation of my content so don’t hate me.

Here’s a link: UnifontEX

Logo: UnifontEX's logo

    • stgiga@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Actually, technically speaking, that PNG is a preview image. It’s ALL the characters of the font laid out in their Unicode positions in 16x16 cells from U+0000 to U+10FFFF

      Also I was asleep when Luna replied, and I was really tired when I said I didn’t make a preview image. I actually DID, but it’s the TTF2PNG build of the font that was generated in a special way that makes it so that the image can be read sequentially from U+0000 to U+10FFFF in 16x16 cells to get the character you want, with no need for a definition file that shows where a codepoint is in the image. Also, it means that it also serves as a 1:1 preview that is properly mapped too.

      As for why the image is “black”, it has to do with the fact that to store U+0000 to U+10FFFF in 16x16 cells in a way compatible with sequential reading it requires that the sheet be 4096x65536. Blink engine browsers as well as Samsung’s Gallery app have no problems viewing it (as well as some others), but there are also quite a few viewers that really hate this size. Oh, and the PNG is in 1bpp Indexed Color mode to get it small enough to fit in the 1MiB figure used by the 3DO console’s font chip size (Apparently the 3DO had the largest font chip.) Basically, the TTF2PNG build is its own preview image, but it may be difficult to display on some viewers. Sorry for any confusion.

      Please don’t hate me.

      • meow@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        1 year ago

        Blink engine browsers as well as Samsung’s Gallery app have no problems viewing it (as well as some others), but there are also quite a few viewers that really hate this size.

        Firefox wasn’t doing good with displaying that.

        Please don’t hate me.

        No need to hate you for this.