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

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

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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 that are monospaced, 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
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

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.

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	2023-01-19

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.

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

Main article: linja pona

A relatively early and influential font. The pi extension can go up to 3 characters wide.

nasin sitelen pu mono

nasin sitelen pu mono
Supported characters	ku suli
Style	handdrawn
Writing system	sitelen pona
Author	jan Ke Tami, kili pan Juli
License	CC0
Features
First publication	2022-04-06

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.

nishiki teki fonts

にしき的フォント 『 Nishiki-teki 』
Supported characters	All UCSUR characters
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.

Nishiki-teki lili
Supported characters	All UCSUR characters
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.

toki pona OTF

toki pona OTF
Style	uniform line weight
Writing system	sitelen pona
Author	jan Wesi
License	All rights reserved

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

Unifont CSUR

GNU Unifont (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 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, 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	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

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 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	2020-03-09

Main article: sitelen pona pona

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.

External links

• ijo Linku maintains a comprehensive list of all fonts
• comparison of all word glyphs in all fonts