Fonts

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Many fonts have been created for Toki Pona and its original writing systems, with varying feature sets. For the purpose of this article, only SFNT fonts are considered (fonts that have a file that is installable on modern computers - like TTF, OTF - or a file that can be embedded on a website - including WOFF, WOFF2).

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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

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

As the name suggests, any sitelen pona character is made out of blocks that fit into a box of 5 times 5 blocks. To do so, it sometimes relies on alternate versions of the glyphs. Of all computer-installable pixel fonts, it achieves the lowest amount of blocks

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

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

linja pimeja fonts

linja pimeja
Supported characters	All pu glyphs
Style	handwritten
Writing system	sitelen pona
Author	increpare / jan Inkepa
License	CC0
Features
First publication	2019-12-21

A font written in thick marker pen.

linja pimeja pona
Supported characters	All pu glyphs, plus kin, oko, namako, tonsi, kijetesantakalu
Style	handwritten
Writing system	sitelen pona
Author	jan Ke Tami, increpare / jan Inkepa
License	OFL
Features	Any unrecognised word will automatically be turned into a cartouche with Latin characters
First publication	2021-11-05

An expansion on linja pimeja, while also merging features with sitelen pona pona, resulting in unrecognised characters to be automatically converted into a cartouche with Latin characters. 5 glyphs were added:

• The glyph for kijetesantakalu is taken from one of the kijetesantakalu o! comics.
• The glyph for oko is an edit of suli, lukin and ijo
• The glyph for kin is an edit of a and lete
• The glyph for namako is an edit of sin
• The glyph for tonsi is an edit of jan and sin

linja pona

Main article: linja pona

linja pona "linja pona" written in the linja pona font
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, created by David A. Roberts and expanded on by jan Same. The pi extension can go up to three characters wide.

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

nasin sitelen pu mono is a handwritten font, created by jan Ke Tami and kili pan Juli. It features all pu glyphs, derived from the the vectorized drawings from Toki Pona: The Language of Good and traced drawings from the Esperanto edition of the same book (thinned to make them more consistent with the preceding drawings).

Neoletters

Neoletters
Supported characters	incomplete: all pu words minus walo
Style	pixelated
Writing system	sitelen pona
Author	Oren Watson
License	CC BY NC SA 4.0
Features

Neoletters is a font with origins in the early 2000's for video games. All characters are monospaced. Sometime between 2019 and 2020, it added sitelen pona, adding all pu glyphs and cartouche brackets, but notably missing walo.

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.

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.

Nishiki-teki lili is a derivation of Nishiki-teki created by jan Ke Tami to reduce file size, only including the sitelen pona glyphs. On April 2023, ligatures were added to the font.

Toki Pona Bubble fonts

Toki Pona Bubble
Supported characters	ku suli
Style	Outlines
Writing system	sitelen pona
Author	Jordan W Martin
License	personal use only
Features
First publication	2022-02-03

Toki Pona Bubble (color)
Supported characters	ku suli
Style	Colors
Writing system	sitelen pona
Author	Jordan W Martin
License	personal use only
Features
First publication	2022-02-03

Toki Pona Bubble exists as two fonts: One has each character outlined with patterns inside as a lineart version and the other has all the characters colored in yellow, red, blue or green, with the outline and the pattern in a darker shade.

The colored version serves as a basis for a downloadable poster which shows all supported sitelen pona characters on one sheet.

Colored fonts are not supported everywhere. If the color feature is not supported, the font tends to get displayed as black (or whatever the default color is set to) anywhere there is color. As a result, they may look like bold black characters, which should not hinder legibility.

toki pona OTF

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

toki pona OTF is a uniform line weight font and the first sitelen pona font ever made, first published only 2 months after the publication of Toki Pona: The Language of Good. 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
• The string zz serves as a separator between glyphs – but unlike modern fonts, it is only a zero-width space instead of an ideographic space.
• The string tokipona gets converted into the Toki Pona symbol.

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, 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

sitelen Antowi (Android) is a reimagining of 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. Below are some 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 pi lasin lukin

sitelen pona pona

Main article: sitelen pona pona

sitelen pona pona "jan li pana e moku tawa sina" written in 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

sitelen pona pona is a writing system and font, designed to be a simplified version of sitelen pona. While the font uses UCSUR codepoints, the ones it uses are incompatible with the assigned range for sitelen pona, as it was made far before sitelen pona got added to the standard.

Other writing systems

Alphabets

TokiTengwar

TokiTengwar
Supported characters	the Toki Pona alphabet, plus punctuation
Writing system	Tengwar
Author	Bryant J. Knight
License	all rights reserved
First publication	2005-04-30

This font is an adaptation of the Tengwar alphabet known from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings universe, to allow typing toki pona words. Below are some useful tips for typing:

• A puts the vowel marker "a" further to the left, which is useful to put it over consonant glyphs
• q serves as a stem for vowels without a preceding consonant
• syllable-final "-n" can be typed with either N or M
• ` adds a paragraph marker
• , adds an interpunct

tuki tiki fonts

tuki tiki is a tokiponido that has a writing system very similar to toki pona.

In addition to this list of fonts, nasin luka also supports the tuki tiki glyphs, however they only exist as codepoints.

tama ka Tumu

tama ka Tumu
Supported characters	All tuki tiki words, except lapi, plus liti
Style	handwritten
Writing system	titi pula
Author	ka Tumu & ka Ke Tami & Kelsey Higham
License	OFL
Features
First publication	2023-01-13

To make this font, jan Ke Tami vectorized ka Tumu's glyph drawings (hence the name "likeness of ka Tumu"). When it was made, the word liti had been made, which was later replaced by lapi - this replacement is yet to be reflected in the font.

External links

• nimi Linku maintains a comprehensive list of all fonts
• Comparison of all word glyphs in all fonts