Fonts
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Fonts with glyphs in the UCSUR sitelen pona range
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Fonts that allow for cartouches to fully wrap around a name
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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
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Fonts in which each character's width (including margins) takes up the same amount of space
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Fonts that allow a variation of pi to extend its horizontal line below multiple succeeding glyphs
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Fonts that allow characters other than pi to stretch with extension lines
sitelen pona fonts
5x5 sitelen pona
5x5 sitelen pona
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Supported characters | all pu glyphs, several ku glyphs |
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Style | pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Sewaka / jan Weko |
License | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Features | codepoints only |
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 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
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Supported characters | all UCSUR glyphs, adopts an increasing amount of extra glyphs and personal name glyphs |
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Style | uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | lipamanka |
License | OFL |
Features | |
First publication | 2023-01-19[1] |
This font is meant to improve on and replace 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.[2]
linja luka
linja pi pu lukin
linja pi tomo lipu
linja pimeja fonts
linja pona
linja pona
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Supported characters | ku suli, plus 3 ku lili |
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Style | uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | David A. Roberts, jan Same |
License | OFL |
Features |
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
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Supported characters | ku suli |
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Style | handdrawn |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Ke Tami, kili pan Juli |
License | CC0 |
Features | |
First publication | 2022-04-06[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 fonts
にしき的フォント 『 Nishiki-teki 』
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Supported characters | All UCSUR characters |
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Style | uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Umi / うみほたる (Umihotaru) |
License | OFL |
Features | Provides clean combinations for all character permutations |
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 Ukaga shell "Nishiki", with the shell appearing many times as glyphs in the font.
On 2022-11-01, jan Umi added sitelen pona according to UCSUR, allowing for over 31 000 possible character combinations. [4]
Nishiki-teki lili
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Supported characters | All UCSUR characters |
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Style | uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Ke Tami, jan Umi / うみほたる (Umihotaru) |
License | OFL |
Features | Provides clean combinations for all character permutations |
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.
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
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Style | uniform line weight |
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Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Wesi |
License | All rights reserved
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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 charactertokipona
gets converted into the Toki Pona symbol
toki pona PixelFonts
Unifont CSUR
GNU Unifont (Unifont CSUR)
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Supported characters | all UCSUR characters |
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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 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,[5] and it is meant as a font of "last resort".
sitelen pona inspired ideograph fonts
sitelen Antowi
sitelen Antowi (Android)
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Supported characters | ku suli |
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Style | Material design |
Writing system | stelenponido |
Author | jan Jeli / UkiyoMoji Fonts |
License | Custom license |
Features | Any capitalised word will automatically be turned into a cartouche with Latin characters |
First publication | 2022-05-19[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
sitelen pona pona
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Supported characters | pu glyphs, plus the initial set of extended linja pona characters |
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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 | 2020-03-09 |
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
- ↑ 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. - ↑ 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".
- ↑ [@kilipan]. (6 April 2022). [Message posted in the
#font-help
channel in the ma pi nasin sitelen Discord server]. Discord. Retrieved 4 November 2023. - ↑ GNU Unifont Glyphs, see "Unifont Limitations"
External links
- ijo Linku maintains a comprehensive list of all fonts
- comparison of all word glyphs in all fonts
Text input | Fonts · Wakalito · Autocorrect · Text-to-speech · ASCII |
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Standardization | ISO 639-3 · UCSUR |