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==={{tp|5x5 sitelen pona}}===

| {{tp|5x5 sitelen pona}}

{{tp|5x5 sitelen pona}} is a minimalist pixelated font made on {{w|Fontstruct}}. Due to Fontstruct's limitations, the {{tp|sitelen pona}} glyphs take on space in the Unicode blocks for Latin characters, sharing codepoints with {{tp|sitelen pona kiwen}}, {{tp|sitelen pona kiwen nanpa tu}}, {{tp|sitelen pona pi palisa mute}} and {{tp|sitelen pona 7x7}}.

| ucsur = yes

| cartouche = yes

{{tp|linja lipamanka}} is a sucessor font meant to improve on and replace {{tp|linja sike}} by the same font creator, {{tok|lipamanka}}. As its development progresses, community-suggested words, popular features and custom name glyphs get integrated into the font.<ref>{{cite Discord|url=https://discord.com/channels/301377942062366741/1053850152932233266/1053850152932233266|quote=new year, new design goals:

1.) this font is going to be a FONT OF THE PEOPLE. it’s going to have all sorts of custom glyphs/ligatures, it’s going to support your weird nimisin, and it’s going to support CUSTOM NAME GLYPHS!

2.) it’s going to be aesthetic. it’ll be monospaced with no baseline (there will be a midline instead)

3.) it’s going to be both ucsur and ligature compatible! (words not already in ucsur won’t have their own codepoints. there will be a version of the font that does not support ligatures so that people can use it as a ucsur font alongside a latin font on discord)

4.) THE FONT IS CALLED LINJA LIPAMANKA NOW !!! LINJA SIKE IS DONE

i will begin working some time this week and i may stream some of my work! this means that now is the time to send all your ideas and requests for custom glyphs, ligatures, nimisin etc. i’m really excited for this, y’all! let me know if you have questions.

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REQUIREMENTS FOR YOUR GLYPH TO BE ADDED:

1) you must request it twice, both times must be no less than two days apart from each other

2) you must be clear about what the glyph means or represents

3) the etymology of the word you are requesting/the origin of the word should be made clear as well

3) if you have a pet, you are required to send me one picture of your pet for each glyph you request

3) this is not required but if you would like to send me a tip for my labor here’s my ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/lipamanka it would be much appreciated, especially if you request a large amount of glyphs, but is not required at all <3 (suggested amount is $2.50 per glyph, or zero dollars)

3) if you need help coming up with a custom name glyph, let me know i might be able to help

3) i might make suggestions or offer to workshop a glyph you request

3) feel free to not do some of these requirements just like lmk tb|channel={{tp|toki-suli}}|retrieved=4 November 2023|thread={{tp|linja lipamanka}}|server={{tp|ma pona pi toki pona}}|name={{tp|lipamanka}}|username=lipamanka}}</ref>

| author = David A. Roberts, jan Same

| long pi = yes

{{tp|linja pona}} is a relatively early and influential font. The {{tp|pi}} extension can go up to 3 characters wide.

Using the vectorised drawings from {{lipu pu|en}}, and later also traced drawings from {{lipu pu|eo}} (thinned to make them more consistent with the preceding drawings), this font gives access to all {{tp|pu}} glyphs in a font format.

| Nishiki-teki lili

On 1 November 2022, {{tok|jan Ke Tami}} made a derivation of the font to reduce the file size, concentrating only on the sitelen pona characters. On 2023-04-07, ligatures got added.

Only 2 months after publication of {{lipu pu|en}} and therefore {{tp|sitelen pona}} in its first completed form, this font is the first of all {{tp|sitelen pona}} fonts. Its ASCII transcription has some oddities that users might want to be aware of:

*{{tp|ken}} and {{tp|kepeken}} only exist as codepoints and are not accessible by typing them out in the Latin alphabet

*{{tp|a}}, {{tp|e}} and {{tp|o}} only get converted into {{tp|sitelen pona}} if an <code>x</code> is added after, to distinguish them from their Latin counterparts

*Any word also gets converted into {{tp|sitelen pona}} if the first letter is capitalized

*<code>zz</code> serves as a separator between glyphs - but unlike modern fonts, it is only a zero width space instead of a space that is as wide as a character

*<code>tokipona</code> gets converted into the Toki Pona symbol

In the 17 April 2022 release (Unifont 14.0.03), Paul Hardy added {{tp|sitelen pona}}, along side some other UCSUR scripts (Xaîni, Ophidian, Niji, Shidinn). As of 4 November 2023, all UCSUR characters have been encoded, but the format codepoints exist as solid characters instead of serving their formatting functions, leading character combinations, character extensions and cartouches to be broken. This kind of limitation is generally the case wth GNU Unifont and companion fonts,<ref>[https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html GNU Unifont Glyphs], see "Unifont Limitations"</ref> and it is meant as a font of "last resort".

| start = 19 May 2022<ref>u/salsarosada (19 May 2022). [https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/ususnn/sitelen_antowi_material_design_style_sitelen_pona/ {{tok|sitelen Antowi}} (Material Design style {{tok|Sitelen Pona}} font)]. ''Reddit''. Retrieved 5 November 2023.</ref>

This font re-imagines {{tp|sitelen pona}} characters as if they were Material Design UI icons (as used, for example, for apps or setting pictograms on mobile operating systems). As a result, most glyphs are altered in some shape or form, and even taking inspiration from alternate forms of a glyph instead of the standard glyph.

Useful tips for typing:

| license = OFL

While this font uses [[UCSUR]] codepoints, the ones it uses are not compatible with the assigned range for {{tp|sitelen pona}} in UCSUR because it was made far before {{tp|sitelen pona}} got added there.

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