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==Key==
==Key==
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ucsur-feature.png|Fonts with glyphs in the [[UCSUR]] {{tp|sitelen pona}} range
ucsur-feature.png|Fonts with glyphs in the [[UCSUR]] {{tp|sitelen pona}} range
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=={{tp|sitelen pona}} fonts==
=={{tp|sitelen pona}} fonts==

==={{tp|5x5 sitelen pona}}===
==={{tp|5x5 sitelen pona}}===
{{font
{{font|{{tp|5x5 sitelen pona}}|system={{tp|sitelen pona}}|author={{tp|jan Sewaka / jan Weko}}|mono=yes|license=CC BY-SA 3.0|style=pixelated|feature=codepoints only|first=2020-08-21|range=all {{tp|pu}} glyphs, several {{tp|ku}} glyphs}}
| {{tp|5x5 sitelen pona}}
A minimalist pixelated font made on Fontstruct. Due to Fontstruct's limitations, the sitelen pona glyphs take on space in the Latin Unicode blocks, sharing codepoints with {{tp|sitelen pona kiwen}}, {{tp|sitelen pona kiwen nanpa tu}}, {{tp|sitelen pona pi palisa mute}} and {{tp|sitelen pona 7x7}}.
| system = {{tp|sitelen pona}}
| range = All {{tp|pu}} glyphs, several {{tp|ku}} glyphs
| style = Pixelated
| author = {{tok|jan Sewaka}}, {{tok|jan Weko}}
| first = 21 August 2020
| license = CC BY-SA 3.0
| mono = yes
| feature = Codepoints only
}}

{{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}}.
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===CraftyPE ===
===CraftyPE===

===Fairfax fonts===
===Fairfax fonts===
===insa pi supa lape ===
===leko lili 15x15 ===
===leko majuna ===
===linja Sipiki ===


===linja ante ===
==={{tp|insa pi supa lape}}===

===linja leko ===
===linja leko pi luka tu ===
==={{tp|leko lili}} 15x15===

==={{tp|leko majuna}}===

==={{tp|linja Sipiki}}===

==={{tp|linja ante}}===

==={{tp|linja leko}}===

==={{tp|linja leko pi luka tu}}===

==={{tp|linja lipamanka}}===
==={{tp|linja lipamanka}}===
{{font
{{font|{{tp|linja lipamanka}}|license=OFL|author={{tp|lipamanka}}|range=all UCSUR glyphs, adopts an increasing amount of extra glyphs and personal name glyphs|ucsur=yes|ligature=yes|cartouche=yes|system={{tp|sitelen pona}}|style=uniform line weight|start=2023-01-19<ref>{{cite Discord|url=https://discord.com/channels/301377942062366741/1053850152932233266/1065456491726913576|channel={{tp|toki-suli}}|retrieved=2023-11-04|thread={{tp|linja lipamanka}}|server={{tp|ma pona pi toki pona}}|name={{tp|lipamanka}}|username=lipamanka}}</ref>|long pi=yes|mno=yes|}}
| {{tp|linja lipamanka}}
This font is meant to improve on and replace {{tp|linja sike}} by the same font creator. 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:
| system = {{tp|sitelen pona}}
| range = All UCSUR glyphs, adopts an increasing amount of extra glyphs and personal name glyphs
| style = Uniform line weight
| author = {{tp|lipamanka}}
| start = 19 January 2023<ref>{{cite Discord|name={{tp|lipamanka}}|username=lipamanka|url=https://discord.com/channels/301377942062366741/1053850152932233266/1065456491726913576|channel={{tok|toki-suli}}|retrieved=4 November 2023|thread={{tok|linja lipamanka}}|server={{tp|ma pona pi toki pona}}}}</ref>
| license = OFL
| ucsur = yes
| ligature = yes
| cartouche = yes
| long pi = yes
| mono = 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!
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!
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3) if you need help coming up with a custom name glyph, let me know i might be able to help
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) 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=2023-11-04|thread={{tp|linja lipamanka}}|server={{tp|ma pona pi toki pona}}|name={{tp|lipamanka}}|username=lipamanka}}</ref>
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>
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===linja luka ===
===linja pi pu lukin ===
==={{tp|linja luka}}===

===linja pi tomo lipu ===
===linja pimeja fonts===
==={{tp|linja pi pu lukin}}===

==={{tp|linja pi tomo lipu}}===

==={{tp|linja pimeja}} fonts===

==={{tp|linja pona}}===
==={{tp|linja pona}}===
{{Main|linja pona}}
{{font|{{tp|linja pona}}|author=David A. Roberts, jan Same|cartouche=yes|ligature=yes|system={{tp|sitelen pona}}|style=uniform line weight|license=OFL|range=ku suli, plus 3 ku lili|long pi=yes}}
{{font
{{Hatnote|Main article: [[linja pona]]}}
| {{tp|linja pona}}
A relatively early and influential font. The {{tp|pi}} extension can go up to 3 characters wide.
| system = {{tp|sitelen pona}}
| range = {{tp|ku suli}}, plus 3 {{tp|ku lili}}
| style = Uniform line weight
| author = David A. Roberts, jan Same
| license = OFL
| long pi = yes
| cartouche = yes
| ligature = yes
}}

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

===linja waso ===
===linja wawa ===
==={{tp|linja suwi}}===

===nasin leko suwi ===
===nasin leko suwi lili ===
==={{tp|linja waso}}===

===nasin luka ===
===nasin nanpa ===
==={{tp|linja wawa}}===

==={{tp|nasin leko suwi}}===

==={{tp|nasin leko suwi lili}}===

==={{tp|nasin luka}}===

==={{tp|nasin nanpa}}===

==={{tp|nasin sitelen pu mono}}===
==={{tp|nasin sitelen pu mono}}===
{{font
{{font|{{tp|nasin sitelen pu mono}}||system={{tp|sitelen pona}}|author=jan Ke Tami, kili pan Juli|license=CC0|ucsur=yes|cartouche=yes|range={{tp|ku suli}}|ligature=yes|style=handdrawn|start=2022-04-06<ref>{{cite Discord|url=https://discord.com/channels/948448338662010910/948449040008347649/961268392009023568|username={{tp|kilipan}}|server={{tp|ma pi nasin sitelen}}|channel=font-help|retrieved=2023-11-04}}</ref>|mono=yes|long pi=yes}}
| {{tp|nasin sitelen pu mono}}
| system = {{tp|sitelen pona}}
| range = {{tp|ku suli}}
| style = Handwritten
| author = {{tok|jan Ke Tami}}, {{tok|kili pan Juli}}
| start = 6 April 2022<ref>{{cite Discord|name={{tok|kili pan Juli|username=kilipan}}|url=https://discord.com/channels/948448338662010910/948449040008347649/961268392009023568|channel=font-help|server={{tp|ma pi nasin sitelen}}|retrieved=4 November 2023}}</ref>
| license = CC0
| cartouche = yes
| ligature = yes
| long pi = yes
| mono = yes
| ucsur = yes
}}

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.
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.
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===Neoletters ===
===nishiki teki fonts===
{{font|にしき的フォント 『 Nishiki-teki 』|system={{tp|sitelen pona}}|author=jan Umi / うみほたる (Umihotaru)|ucsur=yes|cartouche=yes|range=All UCSUR characters|feature=Provides clean combinations for all character permutations|first=2009-04-01|style=uniform line weight|license=OFL|long pi=yes|extend=yes}}
Nishiki Teki (pronounced [nʲi̞ɕi̥kʲi̥te̞kʲi̥]) is a massive Unicode-compliant font with additional glyphs for a very wide range of purposes. It was inspired by the {{w|Ukaga}} shell "Nishiki", with the shell appearing many times as glyphs in the font.


===Neoletters===
On 2022-11-01, jan Umi added sitelen pona according to UCSUR, allowing for over 31 000 possible character combinations. <ref>[https://twitter.com/Umihotarus/status/1587416513304485888 Twitter]</ref>

{{clear}}{{font|Nishiki-teki lili|system={{tp|sitelen pona}}|author=jan Ke Tami, jan Umi / うみほたる (Umihotaru)|ucsur=yes|cartouche=yes|ligature=yes|range=All UCSUR characters|feature=Provides clean combinations for all character permutations|style=uniform line weight|license=OFL|long pi=yes|extend=yes}}
===Nishiki-teki===
On 2022-11-01 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.
{{font
| Nishiki-teki
| system = {{tp|sitelen pona}}
| range = All UCSUR characters
| style = Uniform line weight
| author = {{tok|jan Umi}}
| first = 1 April 2009
| license = OFL
| cartouche = yes
| extend = yes
| long pi = yes
| ucsur = yes
| feature = Provides clean combinations for all character permutations.
}}

Nishiki-teki ({{w|Japanese language|Japanese}}: {{lang|ja|にしき的フォント}}; {{w|Hepburn romanization|Hepburn}}: ''{{lang|ja-Latn|Nishiki teki fonto}}'') is a massive Unicode-compliant font with additional glyphs for a very wide range of purposes, created by {{tok|jan Umi}} ({{w|Japanese language|Japanese}}: {{lang|ja|うみほたる}}; {{w|Hepburn romanization|Hepburn}}: ''{{lang|ja-Latn|Umihotaru}}''). It was inspired by the {{w|Ukaga}} shell "Nishiki", with the shell appearing many times as glyphs in the font.

On 1 November 2022, sitelen pona glyphs were added, according to UCSUR, allowing for over 31 thousand possible character combinations.<ref>Umihotaru [@Umihotarus] (1 November 2022). [https://twitter.com/Umihotarus/status/1587416513304485888 "{{lang|ja|にしき的フォントをトキポナの表語文字}} {{tok|sitelen pona}} {{lang|ja|に対応させました。}}#tokipona #sitelenpona […<nowiki>]</nowiki>"]. ''Twitter''. Retrieved 5 November 2023.</ref>
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===Sevenish ===
===sike en linja ===
===Nishiki-teki {{tok|lili}}===
{{font
===sitelen ===
| Nishiki-teki lili
===sitelen Kotopon ===
| system = {{tp|sitelen pona}}
===sitelen Sans ===
| range = All UCSUR characters
===sitelen luka tu tu ===
| style = Uniform line weight
===sitelen pi jan Soja ===
| author = {{tok|jan Umi}}, {{tok|jan Ke Tami}}
===sitelen pi linja ko ===
| first = 1 April 2009
===sitelen pona 7x7 ===
| license = OFL
===sitelen pona PMD sky font ===
| cartouche = yes
===sitelen pona kiwen ===
| extend = yes
===sitelen pona kiwen nanpa tu ===
| ligature = yes
===sitelen pona pi palisa mute ===
| long pi = yes
===sitelen seli kiwen fonts===
| ucsur = yes
| feature = Provides clean combinations for all character permutations.
}}

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.
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===Sevenish===

==={{tp|sike en linja}}===

==={{tp|sitelen}}===

==={{tp|sitelen Kotopon}}===

==={{tp|sitelen Sans}}===

==={{tp|sitelen luka tu tu}}===

==={{tp|sitelen pi jan Soja}}===

==={{tp|sitelen pi linja ko}}===

==={{tp|sitelen pona}} 7x7===

==={{tp|sitelen pona}} PMD sky font===

==={{tp|sitelen pona kiwen}}===

==={{tp|sitelen pona kiwen nanpa tu}}===

==={{tp|sitelen pona pi palisa mute}}===

==={{tp|sitelen seli kiwen}} fonts===

===Toki Pona Bubble fonts===
===Toki Pona Bubble fonts===

===toki pona OTF ===
===toki pona OTF===
{{font|toki pona OTF|license=All rights reserved|author=jan Wesi|ligatures=yes|first=2014-07-20|style=uniform line weight|system={{tp|sitelen pona}}}}
{{font
| toki pona OTF
| system = {{tp|sitelen pona}}
| style = Uniform line weight
| author = {{tok|jan Wesi}}
| first = 20 July 2014
| license = All rights reserved
| ligature = yes
}}

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:
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|ken}} and {{tp|kepeken}} only exist as codepoints and are not accessible by typing them out in the Latin alphabet
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*<code>tokipona</code> gets converted into the Toki Pona symbol
*<code>tokipona</code> gets converted into the Toki Pona symbol
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===toki pona PixelFonts ===
===Unifont CSUR ===
{{font|GNU Unifont (Unifont CSUR)|license=OFL/GPL|style=pixelated|ucsur=yes|features=codepoints only|range=all UCSUR characters|system={{tp|sitelen pona}}|feature=codepoints only|author=Roman Czyborra, Paul Hardy}}
Unifont CSUR is a companion font to GNU Unifont and is part of the GNU Project. GNU Unifont got started in 1998 and today the project covers over 2 million codepoints. It can be found in most free operating systems. The base font has glyphs in Unicode Plane 0, Plane 2 and Plane 3. Unifont CSUR has glyphs in Plane 0 and Plane 15.


===toki pona PixelFonts===
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 2023-11-04, 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".

===Unifont CSUR===
{{font
| Unifont CSUR
| system = {{tp|sitelen pona}}
| range = All UCSUR characters
| style = Pixelated
| author = Roman Czyborra, Paul Hardy
| license = OFL/GPL
| ucsur = yes
| feature = codepoints only
| features = codepoints only
}}

Unifont CSUR is a companion font to GNU Unifont and is part of the GNU Project. GNU Unifont got started in 1998 and today the project covers over 2 million codepoints. It can be found in most free operating systems. The base font has glyphs in Unicode Plane 0, Plane 2 and Plane 3. Unifont CSUR has glyphs in Plane 0 and Plane 15.

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".
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=={{tp|sitelen pona}} inspired ideograph fonts==
=={{tp|sitelen pona}} inspired ideograph fonts==

===sitelen Antowi===
==={{tp|sitelen Antowi}}===
{{font|sitelen Antowi (Android)|system=stelenponido|ucsur=yes|cartouche=yes|mono=yes|long pi=yes|author=jan Jeli / UkiyoMoji Fonts|style=Material design|license=[https://www.dafont.com/de/profile.php?user=789007&sort=date&psize=l Custom license]|range={{tp|ku suli}}|start=2022-05-19<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/tokipona/comments/ususnn/sitelen_antowi_material_design_style_sitelen_pona/ Reddit]</ref>|ligature=yes|feature=Any capitalised word will automatically be turned into a cartouche with Latin characters}}
{{font
| {{tp|sitelen Antowi}} (Android)
| system = sitelenponido
| range = {{tp|ku suli}}
| style = Material design
| author = jan Jeli / UkiyoMoji Fonts
| 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>
| license = [https://www.dafont.com/de/profile.php?user=789007&sort=date&psize=l Custom license]
| cartouche = yes
| ligature = yes
| long pi = yes
| mono = yes
| ucsur = yes
| feature = Any capitalised word will automatically be turned into a cartouche with Latin characters
}}

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.
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:
Useful tips for typing:
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* Alternate forms of glyphs can be reached by adding <code>-</code> after the word
* Alternate forms of glyphs can be reached by adding <code>-</code> after the word
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===sitelen lili ===
===sitelen pona pona ===
==={{tp|sitelen lili}}===

{{font|{{tp|sitelen pona pona}}|system=sitelenponido|author=Jack Humbert|ligature=yes|cartouche=yes|range=pu glyphs, plus the initial set of extended {{tp|linja pona}} characters|style=uniform line weight|license=OFL|start=2020-03-09|feature=Any unrecognised word will automatically be turned into a cartouche with Latin characters}}
{{Hatnote|Main article: [[sitelen pona pona]]}}
==={{tp|sitelen pona pona}}===
{{Main|sitelen pona pona}}
{{font
| {{tp|sitelen pona pona}}
| system = sitelenponido
| range = pu glyphs, plus the initial set of extended {{tp|linja pona}} characters
| style = uniform line weight
| author = Jack Humbert
| license = OFL
| start = 9 March 2020
| cartouche = yes
| ligature = yes
| feature = Any unrecognised word will automatically be turned into a cartouche with Latin characters
}}

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.
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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===sitelen telo Momo ===
==={{tp|sitelen telo Momo}}===

==Other writing systems==
==Other writing systems==

===Alphabets===
===Alphabets===

====linja lape suwi====
====linja pi kama wan====
===={{tp|linja lape suwi}}====

====linja pi kute mute====
====linja pi kute mute tu====
===={{tp|linja pi kama wan}}====

====linja sike pi kute mute====
====sitelen Komalin====
===={{tp|linja pi kute mute}}====

====sitelen leko kiki====
====sitelen leko ko====
===={{tp|linja pi kute mute tu}}====

====sitelenlili====
====sitelen palisa sewi====
===={{tp|linja sike pi kute mute}}====

====sitelen suwi ko====
====sitelen uta====
===={{tp|sitelen Komalin}}====

===={{tp|sitelen leko kiki}}====

===={{tp|sitelen leko ko}}====

===={{tp|sitelenlili}}====

===={{tp|sitelen palisa sewi}}====

===={{tp|sitelen suwi ko}}====

===={{tp|sitelen uta}}====

====seta sans====
====seta sans====

====TokiTengwar====
====TokiTengwar====

====sitelen nasin luka====
===={{tp|sitelen nasin luka}}====

===Related fonts===
===Related fonts===

====tuki tiki fonts====
=====kiku upi ala=====
====tuki tiki}} fonts====

=====tama ka Tumu=====
===sitelen sitelen fonts===
====={{tp|kiku upi ala}}=====

===sitelen telo===
===Sitelen Ko===
====={{tp|tama ka Tumu}}=====

==={{tp|sitelen sitelen}} fonts===

==={{tp|sitelen telo}}===

==={{tp|Sitelen Ko}}===

==References==
==References==
<references />
<references/>

==External links==
==External links==
* {{tok|[[ijo Linku]]}} maintains a comprehensive [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xwgTAxwgn4ZAc4DBnHte0cqta1aaxe112Wh1rv9w5Yk/htmlview?gid=1195574771 list of all fonts]
* {{tok|[[nimi Linku]]}} maintains a comprehensive [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xwgTAxwgn4ZAc4DBnHte0cqta1aaxe112Wh1rv9w5Yk/htmlview?gid=1195574771 list of all fonts]
* [http://antetokipona.infinityfreeapp.com/font/ comparison of all word glyphs in all fonts]
* [http://antetokipona.infinityfreeapp.com/font/ Comparison of all word glyphs in all fonts]
{{Software}}
{{Software}}
[[Category:Fonts]]
[[Category:Fonts]]

Revision as of 12:05, 5 November 2023

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Many fonts have been created for Toki Pona and its original writing systems, with varying feature sets.

Key

Infoboxes on this page include images to showcase features of interest.

  • Fonts with glyphs in the UCSUR sitelen pona range

    Fonts with glyphs in the UCSUR sitelen pona range

  • Fonts that allow for cartouches to fully wrap around a name

    Fonts that allow for cartouches to fully wrap around a name

  • Fonts that allow for ASCII transcription: typing Toki Pona words in the Latin alphabet results in the words getting converted into standalone symbols through OpenType ligatures

    Fonts that allow for ASCII transcription: typing Toki Pona words in the Latin alphabet results in the words getting converted into standalone symbols through OpenType ligatures

  • Fonts that are monospaced, in which each character's width (including margins) takes up the same amount of space

    Fonts that are monospaced, in which each character's width (including margins) takes up the same amount of space

  • Fonts that allow a variation of pi to extend its horizontal line below multiple succeeding glyphs

    Fonts that allow a variation of pi to extend its horizontal line below multiple succeeding glyphs

  • Fonts that allow characters other than pi to stretch with extension lines

    Fonts that allow characters other than pi to stretch with extension lines

sitelen pona fonts

5x5 sitelen pona

5x5 sitelen pona
Supported characters All pu glyphs, several ku glyphs
Style Pixelated
Writing system sitelen pona
Author jan Sewaka, jan Weko
License CC BY-SA 3.0
Features
Codepoints only

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

CraftyPE

Fairfax fonts

insa pi supa lape

leko lili 15x15

leko majuna

linja Sipiki

linja ante

linja leko

linja leko pi luka tu

linja lipamanka

linja lipamanka
Supported characters All UCSUR glyphs, adopts an increasing amount of extra glyphs and personal name glyphs
Style Uniform line weight
Writing system sitelen pona
Author lipamanka
License OFL
Features
First publication 19 January 2023[1]

linja lipamanka is a sucessor font meant to improve on and replace linja sike by the same font creator, lipamanka. As its development progresses, community-suggested words, popular features and custom name glyphs get integrated into the font.[2]

linja luka

linja pi pu lukin

linja pi tomo lipu

linja pimeja fonts

linja pona

Main article: linja pona
linja pona
Supported characters ku suli, plus 3 ku lili
Style Uniform line weight
Writing system sitelen pona
Author David A. Roberts, jan Same
License OFL
Features

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

linja sike

linja suwi

linja waso

linja wawa

nasin leko suwi

nasin leko suwi lili

nasin luka

nasin nanpa

nasin sitelen pu mono

nasin sitelen pu mono
Supported characters ku suli
Style Handwritten
Writing system sitelen pona
Author jan Ke Tami, kili pan Juli
License CC0
Features
First publication 6 April 2022[3]

Using the vectorised drawings from Toki Pona: The Language of Good, and later also traced drawings from Tokipono: La lingvo de bono (thinned to make them more consistent with the preceding drawings), this font gives access to all pu glyphs in a font format.

Neoletters

Nishiki-teki

Nishiki-teki
Supported characters All UCSUR characters
Style Uniform line weight
Writing system sitelen pona
Author jan Umi
License OFL
Features
Provides clean combinations for all character permutations.

Nishiki-teki (Japanese: にしき的フォント; Hepburn: Nishiki teki fonto) is a massive Unicode-compliant font with additional glyphs for a very wide range of purposes, created by jan Umi (Japanese: うみほたる; Hepburn: Umihotaru). It was inspired by the Ukaga shell "Nishiki", with the shell appearing many times as glyphs in the font.

On 1 November 2022, sitelen pona glyphs were added, according to UCSUR, allowing for over 31 thousand possible character combinations.[4]

Nishiki-teki lili

Nishiki-teki lili
Supported characters All UCSUR characters
Style Uniform line weight
Writing system sitelen pona
Author jan Umi, jan Ke Tami
License OFL
Features
Provides clean combinations for all character permutations.

On 1 November 2022, 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.

Sevenish

sike en linja

sitelen

sitelen Kotopon

sitelen Sans

sitelen luka tu tu

sitelen pi jan Soja

sitelen pi linja ko

sitelen pona 7x7

sitelen pona PMD sky font

sitelen pona kiwen

sitelen pona kiwen nanpa tu

sitelen pona pi palisa mute

sitelen seli kiwen fonts

Toki Pona Bubble fonts

toki pona OTF

toki pona OTF


Style Uniform line weight
Writing system sitelen pona
Author jan Wesi
License All rights reserved
Features

Only 2 months after publication of Toki Pona: The Language of Good and therefore sitelen pona in its first completed form, this font is the first of all sitelen pona fonts. Its ASCII transcription has some oddities that users might want to be aware of:

  • ken and kepeken only exist as codepoints and are not accessible by typing them out in the Latin alphabet
  • a, e and o only get converted into sitelen pona if an x is added after, to distinguish them from their Latin counterparts
  • Any word also gets converted into sitelen pona if the first letter is capitalized
  • zz 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
  • tokipona gets converted into the Toki Pona symbol

toki pona PixelFonts

Unifont CSUR

Unifont CSUR
Supported characters All UCSUR characters
Style Pixelated
Writing system sitelen pona
Author Roman Czyborra, Paul Hardy
License OFL/GPL
Features
codepoints only

Unifont CSUR is a companion font to GNU Unifont and is part of the GNU Project. GNU Unifont got started in 1998 and today the project covers over 2 million codepoints. It can be found in most free operating systems. The base font has glyphs in Unicode Plane 0, Plane 2 and Plane 3. Unifont CSUR has glyphs in Plane 0 and Plane 15.

In the 17 April 2022 release (Unifont 14.0.03), Paul Hardy added 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,[5] and it is meant as a font of "last resort".

sitelen pona inspired ideograph fonts

sitelen Antowi

sitelen Antowi (Android)
Supported characters ku suli
Style Material design
Writing system sitelenponido
Author jan Jeli / UkiyoMoji Fonts
License Custom license
Features
Any capitalised word will automatically be turned into a cartouche with Latin characters
First publication 19 May 2022[6]

This font re-imagines 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:

  • Capitalized words will get autocartouched
  • Non-latin cartouches need an underscore as a separator after each word
  • Extended pi requires a + after pi and +pi as a new word after each word underlined by the pi extension line
  • Alternate forms of glyphs can be reached by adding - after the word

sitelen lili

sitelen pona pona

Main article: sitelen pona pona
sitelen pona pona
Supported characters pu glyphs, plus the initial set of extended linja pona characters
Style uniform line weight
Writing system sitelenponido
Author Jack Humbert
License OFL
Features
Any unrecognised word will automatically be turned into a cartouche with Latin characters
First publication 9 March 2020

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

sitelen telo Momo

Other writing systems

Alphabets

linja lape suwi

linja pi kama wan

linja pi kute mute

linja pi kute mute tu

linja sike pi kute mute

sitelen Komalin

sitelen leko kiki

sitelen leko ko

sitelenlili

sitelen palisa sewi

sitelen suwi ko

sitelen uta

seta sans

TokiTengwar

sitelen nasin luka

Related fonts

tuki tiki}} fonts

kiku upi ala
tama ka Tumu

sitelen sitelen fonts

sitelen telo

Sitelen Ko

References

  1. ↑ lipamanka [@lipamanka]. (19 January 2023). [Message posted in the #linja lipamanka thread in the #toki-suli channel in the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server]. Discord. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  2. ↑ lipamanka [@lipamanka]. (18 December 2022). [Message posted in the #linja lipamanka thread in the #toki-suli channel in the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server]. Discord. Retrieved 4 November 2023. "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.

    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".

  3. ↑ kili pan Juli. (6 April 2022). [Message posted in the #font-help channel in the ma pi nasin sitelen Discord server]. Discord. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  4. ↑ Umihotaru [@Umihotarus] (1 November 2022). "にしき的フォントをトキポナの表語文字 sitelen pona に対応させました。#tokipona #sitelenpona […]". Twitter. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  5. ↑ GNU Unifont Glyphs, see "Unifont Limitations"
  6. ↑ u/salsarosada (19 May 2022). sitelen Antowi (Material Design style Sitelen Pona font). Reddit. Retrieved 5 November 2023.

External links

Text input Fonts · Wakalito · Autocorrect · Text-to-speech · ASCII
Standardization ISO 639-3 · UCSUR
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