Fonts
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).
Key
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
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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 |
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 some other Fontstruct fonts.[a]
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
CraftyPE
CraftyPE
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Supported characters | all UCSUR characters |
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Style | uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | ParanormalChicken / Erek Butcher |
License | OFL |
Features |
CraftyPE is an un-pixelated adaptation of Mojangles, the pixel default font in Minecraft, and is inspired by ArtsyOmni / Omni Jacala of Curiomatic & Curioglyphic. It is intended for a resource pack to modify Minecraft with Caxton.
Fairfax fonts
Fairfax
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Supported characters | Completionist: extensive support of words |
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Style | pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Lepeka (Rebecca Bettencourt from Kreative Software) |
License | OFL |
Features |
Fairfax Pona
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Supported characters | Completionist: extensive support of words |
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Style | pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Lepeka (Rebecca Bettencourt from Kreative Software) |
License | OFL |
Features |
Fairfax HD
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Supported characters | Completionist: extensive support of words |
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Style | uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Lepeka (Rebecca Bettencourt from Kreative Software) |
License | OFL |
Features |
Fairfax Pona HD
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Supported characters | Completionist: extensive support of words |
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Style | uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Lepeka (Rebecca Bettencourt from Kreative Software) |
License | OFL |
Features |
A number of fonts are known under the name of "Fairfax":
- Fairfax
- Fairfax Serif
- Fairfax Pona
- Fairfax Hax
- Fairfax Serif Hax
- Fairfax SM
- Fairfax Serif SM
- Fairfax HD
- Fairfax Pona HD
- Fairfax Hax HD
- Fairfax SM HD
(in addition to italic and bold variants for some)
Fonts with HD in their name refer to a vector font, fonts without it are 6x12 pixel fonts. HD supercedes the "SD" pixel fonts, but the SD fonts are still maintained. Serif means Latin characters and their fullwidth versions are in serif. Hax adds specific ligatures for programming to make common operators more streamlined. SM only features characters with the same width as ASCII to make sure programs that are unable to consider PANOSE for character width. Finally, Pona refers to those fonts that allow Toki Pona words to be converted from typed-in ASCII to sitelen pona through OpenType ligatures.
All these except the ones with "SM" in their name have sitelen pona in the UCSUR codepoints.
Fairfax is created by jan Lepeka, who is also in charge of UCSUR. sitelen pona was added in 2021-08-26, the ligature "Pona" fonts were added in 2022-08-10 to the "HD" version and 2022-11-05 for the SD version.
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 | 19 January 2023[1] |
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.[2]
linja luka
linja namako
linja pi pu lukin
linja pi tomo lipu
linja pimeja fonts
linja pimeja
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Supported characters | All pu glyphs |
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Style | handwritten |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | increpare / jan Inkepa |
License | CC0 |
Features | |
First publication | 2019-12-21[3] |
A font written in thick marker pen.
linja pimeja pona
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Supported characters | All pu glyphs, plus kin, oko, namako, tonsi, kijetesantakalu |
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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[4] |
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
linja pona
"linja pona" written in the linja pona font
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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 |
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.
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 | Handwritten |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Ke Tami, kili pan Juli |
License | CC0 |
Features | |
First publication | 6 April 2022[5] |
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
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Supported characters | incomplete: all pu words minus walo |
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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
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Supported characters | All UCSUR characters |
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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.[6]
Nishiki-teki lili
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 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.
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 pona pi palisa mute
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Supported characters | All pu words |
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Style | segmented display |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | WMCook |
License | Fontstruct ND NC |
Features | |
First publication | 2021-03-09 |
This font is an adaptation of sitelen pona to a 16-segment display
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 some other Fontstruct fonts.[a]
sitelen seli kiwen fonts
Toki Pona Bubble fonts
Toki Pona Bubble
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Supported characters | ku suli |
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Style | Outlines |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | Jordan W Martin |
License | personal use only |
Features | |
First publication | 2022-02-03[7] |
Toki Pona Bubble (color)
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Supported characters | ku suli |
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Style | Colors |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | Jordan W Martin |
License | personal use only |
Features | |
First publication | 2022-02-03[7] |
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
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Style | Uniform line weight |
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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.
toki pona PixelFonts
Unifont CSUR
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 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".[8]
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 | 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[9] |
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
sitelen pona pona
"jan li pana e moku tawa sina" written in 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 | 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.
sitelen telo Momo
sitelen sitelen fonts
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
TokiTengwar
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Supported characters | the Toki Pona alphabet, plus punctuation
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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 glyphsq
serves as a stem for vowels without a preceding consonant- syllable-final "-n" can be typed with either
N
orM
`
adds a paragraph marker,
adds an interpunct
sitelen nasin luka
sitelen telo
Sitelen Ko
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.
kiku upi ala
tama ka Tumu
tama ka Tumu
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Supported characters | All tuki tiki words, except lapi, plus liti |
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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.
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. linja lipamanka. lipamanka's website. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ↑ 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. - ↑ 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.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Reddit
- ↑ "Unifont Limitations". GNU Unifont Glyphs. Unifoundry.com.
- ↑ u/salsarosada (19 May 2022). "sitelen Antowi (Material Design style Sitelen Pona font)". Reddit. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
External links
- nimi 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 |
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