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—such as TTF, OTF—or a file that can be embedded on a website—including WOFF, WOFF2).[1]
Key[edit | edit source]
Infoboxes on this page include images to showcase features of interest.
Key | Description |
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Fonts with glyphs in the UCSUR sitelen pona range | |
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 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 characters other than pi to stretch with extension lines |
sitelen pona fonts[edit | edit source]
5x5 sitelen pona[edit | edit source]
5x5 sitelen pona
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Supported characters | All pu glyphs, several ku glyphs |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+110 |
Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Sewaka, jan Weko |
License | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Features | Codepoints only |
First publication | 21 August 2020 |
5x5 sitelen pona is a minimalist pixelated font created by jan Sewaka (jan Weko). 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
AJN Sitelen Pona[edit | edit source]
AJN Sitelen Pona
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Alternate names | sitelen |
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Supported characters | incomplete |
Start of sitelen pona block | U+E000 |
Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | AidenFont |
License | Fontstruct ND NC |
First publication | 2023-05-25 |
As of December 2023, this font is missing glyphs for ona, open, pakala, pali, palisa, pan, pana, pi, pilin, but otherwise supports all other pu glyphs. It also supports all non-pu UCSUR glyphs except epiku, ku, lanpan, meso, n, soko.
Before August 2023, it was known simply as sitelen.
CraftyPE[edit | edit source]
CraftyPE
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Supported characters | All of UCSUR |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | Erek Butcher (soweli Eweke) |
License | OFL 1.1 |
Features |
CraftyPE is an unpixelated adaptation of Mojangles, the pixel default font in videogame Minecraft, created by Erek Butcher (soweli Eweke) during 2022–2023.[2] It is inspired by fonts by ArtsyOmni, Omni Jacala of Curiomatic, and Curioglyphic.[3] The font is intended for a resource pack to modify Minecraft with the mod Caxton.[4]
Fairfax fonts[edit | edit source]
Fairfax
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Supported characters | All of UCSUR and extensively more (completionist) |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Lepeka |
License | OFL |
Features |
Fairfax Pona
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Supported characters | All of UCSUR and extensively more (completionist) |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Lepeka |
License | OFL |
Features |
Fairfax HD
| |
Supported characters | All of UCSUR (completionist) |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Lepeka |
License | OFL |
Features |
Fairfax Pona HD
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Supported characters | All of UCSUR (completionist) |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Lepeka |
License | OFL |
Features |
Fairfax is a font family comprising 11 individual fonts, which are designed to cover all the script in the UCSUR.[5] It was created and maintained by Rebecca Bettencourt (jan Lepeka), who is also in charge of UCSUR. sitelen pona was added to UCSUR in 26 August 2021.
The main series (without an ending) consits of 6x12 pixelated fonts. The "HD" series refers to a vector font. HD supercedes the "SD" series of pixel fonts, however, those are still maintained. Finally, the "Pona" series refers to those fonts that allow Toki Pona words to be converted from ASCII to sitelen pona through OpenType ligatures.
As of November 2023, the following fonts have support for sitelen pona:
- Fairfax
- Fairfax Serif
- Fairfax Pona
- Fairfax Hax
- Fairfax Serif Hax
- Fairfax HD
- Fairfax Pona HD
- Fairfax Hax HD
insa pi supa lape[edit | edit source]
insa pi supa lape basic
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Supported characters | All UCSUR characters |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | pixel-based, uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Lentan |
License | CC0 |
Features | |
First publication | 16 February 2022 |
insa pi supa lape
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Supported characters | All UCSUR characters |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Pixel-based, uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Lentan |
License | CC0 |
Features | |
First publication | 28 May 2020 |
insa pi supa lape is a pixel-based font in which the blocks got smoothed out, similar to the font "Bedstead" by ~bjh21, which the insa pi supa lape is based on. It uses 5x9 pixel blocks as a basis for the characters. Like many other pixel based fonts, it uses some alternate drawings for some of the words. Alongside light and bold versions, the font is available as a standard version with ligatures and a "basic" version without ligatures.
leko lili 15x15[edit | edit source]
leko lili 15x15
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Supported characters | All ku suli words |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Osi |
License | CC0 |
Features |
2 character charts of pixelated sitelen pona were made: a version where each glyph takes up 7x7 pixel blocks and one where they take up 15x15 blocks. The latter was made into a font.
Note that each word needs a space following after to get transformed into sitelen pona.
leko majuna[edit | edit source]
leko majuna
kijetesantakalu, typed out letter by letter in the font leko majuna
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Supported characters | Extensive |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Pixelated (7x7) |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | waso Keli |
License | OFL |
Features | Animated steps when typing words in ASCII |
First publication | 21 February 2023 |
leko majuna is a pixelated font created by waso Keli in 2022.[6] It was originally created to implement sitelen pona in a translation of Zelda.[7]
When typing out words in Latin characters, the font exploits the OpenType ligature feature to show intermediate animated steps of a glpyh and in-between drawings for names that start the same.
linja Sipiki[edit | edit source]
linja Sipiki
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Supported characters | All UCSUR characters |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Sikipi |
License | OFL |
Features | |
First publication | 14 October 2023[8] |
linja Sipiki is a 6x6 pixel font, created and named after jan Sikipi, with help from jan Ke Tami. It was developed through 2023[9] and published in 14 October 2023.[8]
The cartouches are filled out instead of having lines around the glyphs, and the glyphs inside are inverted to be invisible (i.e. with a black font color and a white background, regular characters are black on white, but a cartouche would be one big black spot and the characters inside the cartouche are white on black).
linja ante[edit | edit source]
linja ante
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Supported characters | Most ku lili words |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+E001 |
Style | Sans-serif |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Melon |
License | CC0 |
Features | |
First publication | 7 June 2021 |
This font is based on the font sitelen luka tu tu and bases some of the glyphs off linja sike, the style takes inspiration from aspects of the Rimmel logo and the Revlon logo.
linja Enki[edit | edit source]
linja Enki
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Supported characters | All UCSUR words + kiki and linluwi |
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Style | Handwritten, glyphs are scanned handwriting |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | kije Enki |
License | OFL 1.1 |
Features | |
First publication | 8 January 2024 |
linja Enki is a handwritten font by kije Enki in 2024. It features the ku glyph variant with the full Toki Pona emblem inside.
linja insa[edit | edit source]
linja insa
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Supported characters | Incomplete (in development) |
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Style | Sans-serif |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | akesi Jan |
License | OFL 1.1 |
Features | |
First publication | In development |
linja insa is a sans-serif font currently in development by akesi Jan. It was designed for use in the lipu kule zine, and is inspired by the Latin typeface Inter.
linja Katun[edit | edit source]
linja Kita[edit | edit source]
linja laso[edit | edit source]
linja laso
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Supported characters | Incomplete (in development) |
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Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | cvni81 |
License | OFL 1.1 |
Features | |
First publication | 28 April 2024[10] |
linja laso is a monospace sans-serif font currently in development by cvni81.
linja leko[edit | edit source]
linja leko
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Alternate names | lili pona |
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Supported characters | All pu words |
Start of sitelen pona block | U+E001 |
Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | Jervik Hsien Serrano |
License | CC BY 4.0 |
Features |
This is a 5x6 pixel font.
linja leko pi luka tu[edit | edit source]
linja leko pi luka tu
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Supported characters | ku suli + pre-pu words |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+E000 |
Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | AgentMuffin |
License | CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 |
Features | |
First publication | 1 October 2021[11] |
linja leko pi luka tu is a 7x7 pixelated font by AgentMuffin, published on 1 October 2021.[11]
linja Lensa[edit | edit source]
linja lili[edit | edit source]
linja lipamanka[edit | edit source]
linja lipamanka
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Alternate names | linjamanka |
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Supported characters | All UCSUR glyphs, adopts an increasing amount of extra glyphs and personal name glyphs |
Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | lipamanka |
License | OFL |
Features | |
First publication | 19 January 2023[12] |
linja lipamanka is a sucessor font to linja sike, both created 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.[13]
linja luka[edit | edit source]
linja luka
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Supported characters | All ku suli words and more |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+E001 |
Style | Handwritten |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Pensamin, jan Melon |
License | OFL |
Features |
linja luka is a calligraphic font derived from jan Pensamin's handwriting and coded by jan Melon. Some useful tips when writing:
- Single letter words can be typed by doubling the letter, adding a space after or adding an exclamation mark after
- The glyph for pi can be extended to one or two units long with
pi+
andpi++
linja Majeka pi toki toki[edit | edit source]
linja namako[edit | edit source]
linja namako
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Supported characters | All UCSUR characters |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Sans-serif |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Sikusi |
License | OFL |
Features | |
First publication | 7 November 2023 |
This font presents the glyphs re-imagined in a serif style, both adding serifs and using alternating line weight. The style is based on the font Linux Libertine and took some shapes directly from Linux Libertine.
linja pi pu lukin[edit | edit source]
linja pi pu lukin
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Alternate names | PuLukin |
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Supported characters | All ku lili words and more |
Start of sitelen pona block | U+E000 |
Style | handdrawn |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Sa |
License | None specified |
Features | |
First publication | 30 January 2021 |
The glyphs in this font are supposed to be in a handdrawn style similar to the drawings in Toki Pona: The Language of Good. Its initial goal was to have a glyph for all words in the nimi ale pona word list.
This font allows for Latin words by either adding 1 after single-letter words or by adding hyphens (which the font doesn't render) inside longer words.
linja pi tomo lipu[edit | edit source]
linja pi tomo lipu
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Supported characters | All ku suli words and more |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+E000 |
Style | uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | Pascal Guimier, Christophe Bouteiller |
License | OFL |
Features | |
First publication | 31 December 2019 |
In 2014, Christophe Bouteiller made a website in toki pona (tomolipu.net) with all texts exclusively in sitelen pona. Because fonts were still in their infancy or didn't exist at all, each individual character was included in the page as an SVG element. In 2019, Pascal Guimier used these SVGs to create a font. At that point, the website was already offline and it took until May 2022 to refind and properly credit the original author of the glyphs.
While the original website used the monospaced glyhps, using an equally-wide space as punctuation, the font is not monospaced, doesn't provide any spaces and adds Latin punctuation. The original website displayed names in Latin, the font added cartouches
Single-letter words need to be doubled, have a space after or an exclamation word after. An underscore is needed in front of each character to close the cartouche. misikeke is misspelled as "misekeke".
This font was the first to implement the nimi panke.
linja pimeja fonts[edit | edit source]
linja pimeja
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Supported characters | All pu glyphs |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+E001 |
Style | Handwritten |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | increpare (jan Inkepa) |
License | CC0 |
Features | |
First publication | 12 December 2019[14] |
linja pimeja pona
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Supported characters | All pu glyphs, plus kijetesantakalu, kin, namako, oko, and tonsi. |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+EE00 |
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 | 5 November 2021[15] |
linja pimeja is a handwritten-style font similar to a thick marker pen created by increpare (jan Inkepa) in 2019. In 2021, jan Ke Tami created an expansion on it, while also merging features with sitelen pona pona, resulting in unrecognised characters to be automatically converted into a cartouche with Latin characters. Five nimi ku suli glyphs were also 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[edit | edit source]
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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Start of sitelen pona block | U+E600 |
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 James Flear (jan Same) and expanded on by David A. Roberts. The pi extension can go up to three characters wide.
linja sike[edit | edit source]
linja sike
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Supported characters | All nimi ku and extensively more |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+E600 |
Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | lipamanka |
License | OFL |
Features | Provides clean combinations for all character permutations. |
First publication | 2021[citation needed] |
linja sike is a uniform line weight font created by lipamanka. It was based on linja pona, however it has a way rounder look (hence the name). This font used to be very popular, but because of its datedness, its usage is becoming increasingly smaller. The glyph repertoire includes all nimi ku, some name glyphs, and a lot of other experimental features, such as diacritical particles.
linja suwi[edit | edit source]
linja suwi
Glyph repertoire of linja suwi
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Supported characters | All nimi ku |
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Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Ana |
License | OFL 1.1 |
Features |
linja suwi is a uniform line weight font created by Anna Kudriavtsev (jan Ana).[16][17] It was featured in the Toki Pona Dictionary and has influenced many fonts, including linja sike.[citation needed]
linja waso[edit | edit source]
linja waso
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Supported characters | All UCSUR glyphs |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Alternating line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Maku (ItMarki) |
License | OFL |
Features |
This font is a derivative of the font 霞鹜文楷 (LXGW Wenkai) that adds sitelen pona.
linja wawa[edit | edit source]
linja wawa
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Supported characters | All UCSUR words and more |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+E001 |
Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Elemenopi, jan Melon |
License | OFL |
Features | |
First publication | 26 November 2021 |
linja wawa is a uniform line weight font designed by jan Elemenopi, which features the pu and coded by jan Melon. The original glyph overview was monospaced, however, the font did not become monospaced.
Single-letter words need to be doubled or need a space after them. Cartouches require an underscore before each character to close. Character extensions work with the "greater than" sign >
or the "plus" sign +
and require double underscore under each character for the underline.
nasin Koko[edit | edit source]
nasin leko suwi[edit | edit source]
nasin leko suwi lili[edit | edit source]
nasin luka[edit | edit source]
nasin luka
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Supported characters | All ku suli and lots more |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Handdrawn |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | nanpa Tonpite (trollbreeder) |
License | OFL |
Features |
nasin luka is a handwritten font by nanpa Tonpite (trollbreeder). This font additionally supports tuki tiki characters.
nasin nanpa[edit | edit source]
nasin nanpa
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Alternate names | nasin sitelen tan anpa nanpa |
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Supported characters | All of UCSUR + various additions |
Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Itan |
License | MIT |
Features | |
First publication | 2022-02-18 |
nasin nanpa is a monospaced sitelen pona typeface created by jan Itan. It was released on 16 February 2022. Notably, this font is found in the text for su.
nasin sitelen pu mono[edit | edit source]
nasin sitelen pu mono
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Supported characters | ku suli |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Handwritten |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Ke Tami, kili pan Juli |
License | CC0 |
Features | |
First publication | 6 April 2022[18] |
nasin sitelen pu mono is a handwritten font created by jan Ke Tami and kili pan Juli in 2022. It features all pu glyphs, derived from 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[edit | edit source]
Neoletters
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Supported characters | Incomplete: all pu words except walo |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+EB40 |
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[edit | edit source]
Nishiki-teki
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Supported characters | All UCSUR characters |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Umijotalu |
License | OFL |
Features | Provides clean combinations for all character permutations. |
First publication | 1 April 2009 |
Nishiki-teki lili
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Supported characters | All UCSUR characters |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Ke Tami |
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 Umijotalu (Japanese: うみほたる; Hepburn: Umihotaru). It is a shell of a font named "Nishiki" by Ukagaka, with the shell appearing many times as glyphs in the font.[19]
On 1 November 2022, sitelen pona glyphs were added, according to UCSUR, allowing for over 31 thousand possible character combinations.[20][21]
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[edit | edit source]
Sevenish
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Supported characters | UCSUR |
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Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Niko |
License | OFL 1.1 |
Features |
Sevenish SP
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Supported characters | UCSUR |
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Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Niko |
License | OFL 1.1 |
Features |
Sevenish is pixelated font by jan Niko (also known as jan Sosi or SauceDLX).[22]
sike en linja[edit | edit source]
sike en linja
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Supported characters | All ku suli glyphs |
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Start of sitelen pona block | N/A |
Style | Alternating line width |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Silani |
License | OFL |
Features | |
First publication | 2022-06-08 |
Previous names for this font were linja pi tomo sona during initial design and linja pi tenpo kama during development.[23]
sitelen Kotopon[edit | edit source]
sitelen Kotopon
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Supported characters | All ku lili words + extensively more |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | kala Asi |
License | OFL |
Features | Non-pu words do not conform to UCSUR |
First publication | 6 January 2022 |
This font is a fork of Unifont. Since it was created around the time that UCSUR first got formulated for sietlen pona, the codepoints for characters that aren't the pu words reflect an older draft.
sitelen pona tan pu[edit | edit source]
sitelen Sans[edit | edit source]
sitelen Sans
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Supported characters | All pu words and 8 ku suli words |
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Start of sitelen pona block | N/A |
Style | alternating line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | u/bluemon_ |
License | All rights reserved |
Features | |
First publication | 25 December 2020 |
To use an extended pi glyph in this font, add as many pluses after pi as it should underline upcoming characters.
sitelen luka tu tu[edit | edit source]
sitelen luka tu tu
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Alternate names | toki pona PixelFonts |
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Supported characters | All pu words |
Start of sitelen pona block | U+E001 |
Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Inkepa |
License | CC0 |
Features |
This is a 9x9 pixel font.
sitelen pi jan Soja[edit | edit source]
sitelen pi linja ko[edit | edit source]
sitelen pona 7x7[edit | edit source]
sitelen pona PMD sky font[edit | edit source]
sitelen pona kiwen[edit | edit source]
sitelen pona kiwen
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Supported characters | All pu glyphs, select nimi ku |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+0100 |
Style | Pixelated serif |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | Anšivg |
License | CC-BY-SA 3.0[24] |
First publication | 2020-08-13 |
sitelen pona kiwen nanpa tu
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Supported characters | pu + ku suli, some ku lili |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+0100 |
Style | Pixelated serif |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | Sewaka |
License | CC-BY-SA 3.0[25] |
First publication | 2021-05-01 |
sitelen pona kiwen refers to a family of serif fonts made by Anšivg (jan Sewaka). 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]
These fonts feature an uta glyph without a dot below, due to the creator forgetting to add it.[26]
sitelen pona pi palisa mute[edit | edit source]
sitelen pona pi palisa mute
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Supported characters | All pu glyphs |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+110 |
Style | Segment display |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | WMCook |
License | Fontstruct ND NC[27] |
Features | |
First publication | 9 March 2021 |
sitelen pona pi palisa mute is a font adaption of sitelen pona into a 16-segment display, created by WMCook.[28] Due to the technical limitations of the font-making program Fontstruct, the sitelen pona glyphs take on space in the Unicode blocks designated for Latin characters, sharing codepoints with some other Fontstruct fonts.[a]
sitelen seli kiwen fonts[edit | edit source]
sitelen seli kiwen atuki
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Writing system | titi pula |
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Author | jan Lepeka |
Features | can be monospaced or not |
sitelen seli kiwen asuki
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Supported characters | All of UCSUR and extensively more (completionist) |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Handwritten |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Lepeka |
License | OFL |
Features |
sitelen seli kiwen juniko
| |
Supported characters | All of UCSUR and extensively more (completionist) |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Handwritten |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Lepeka |
License | OFL |
Features |
sitelen seli kiwen (sitelen+seli+kiwen) is handwritten font family created and maintained by jan Lepeka (Rebecca Bettencourt), consisting of six fonts.[29] The name is inspired by another handwritten font by the same creator, named Fluorine,[30] and the translation of the element Fluorine by jan Melon.[31]
suno toki[edit | edit source]
suno toki
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Supported characters | all pu words (including synonyms and tonsi) and kijetesantakalu |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Handwritten |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Ke Tami |
License | OFL |
Features | color font auto-cartouching |
First publication | August 10 2024[32] |
This font was made for a font making tutorial[33] that got released during suno pi toki pona 2024.
Toki Pona Bubble fonts[edit | edit source]
Toki Pona Bubble
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Supported characters | All of ku suli |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F0B4 |
Style | Outlines |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | Jordan W. Martin |
License | Personal use only |
Features | |
First publication | 3 February 2022[34] |
Toki Pona Bubble (color)
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Supported characters | All of ku suli |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F0B4 |
Style | Outlines |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | Jordan W. Martin |
License | Personal use only |
Features | color font |
First publication | 3 February 2022[34] |
Toki Pona Bubble is a pair of fonts created by Jordan W. Martin in 2022.[34] They feature characters outlines with patterns inside as a lineart version and the the color font has all the characters colored in red, blue, green, or yellow, with the outline and the pattern in a darker shade. The words meaning the main colors are also colored respectively.
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[edit | edit source]
toki pona OTF
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+E600 |
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Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | sitelen pona |
Author | jan Wesi |
License | All rights reserved |
Features | |
First publication | 20 July 2014 |
toki pona OTF is a uniform line weight font and the first sitelen pona font ever made. It was first published only 2 months after the publication of Toki Pona: The Language of Good, in July 2004. Its ASCII transcription has some oddities that users might want to be aware of:
- ken (U+E618) and kepeken (U+E619) only exist as Private Use Area codepoints and are unaccessible 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. However, 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[edit | edit source]
Unifont CSUR
| |
Supported characters | All UCSUR characters |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
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".[35]
Xim Sans Conlang[edit | edit source]
YU SITELEN LEKO PONA[edit | edit source]
sitelen pona-inspired fonts[edit | edit source]
sitelen Antowi[edit | edit source]
sitelen Antowi (Android)
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Supported characters | ku suli |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | Material design |
Writing system | sitelenponido |
Author | jan Jeli / UkiyoMoji Fonts |
License | Custom license |
Features | Any capitalised word is automatically turned into a cartouche with Latin characters |
First publication | 19 May 2022[36] |
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[edit | edit source]
sitelen pona lili[edit | edit source]
sitelen pona pi lasin lukin[edit | edit source]
sitelen pona pona[edit | edit source]
sitelen pona pona
"jan li pana e moku tawa sina" written in sitelen pona pona
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Supported characters | pu glyphs, plus apeja, kijetesantakalu, kin, kipisi, leko, monsuta, namako, oko, pake, tonsi |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+EE00 |
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. The font uses codepoints from a Private Use Area of Unicode, just like UCSUR, but because it was made long before sitelen pona was added to the UCSUR standard, the two are not compatible.
sitelen telo Momo[edit | edit source]
sitelen sitelen fonts[edit | edit source]
Other writing systems[edit | edit source]
Alphabets[edit | edit source]
linja lape suwi[edit | edit source]
linja pi kama wan[edit | edit source]
linja pi kute mute[edit | edit source]
linja pi kute mute tu[edit | edit source]
linja sike pi kute mute[edit | edit source]
sitelen Komalin[edit | edit source]
sitelen leko kiki[edit | edit source]
sitelen leko ko[edit | edit source]
sitelenlili[edit | edit source]
sitelen palisa sewi[edit | edit source]
sitelen suwi ko[edit | edit source]
sitelen uta[edit | edit source]
seta sans[edit | edit source]
TokiTengwar[edit | edit source]
TokiTengwar
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Supported characters | Toki Pona alphabet, plus punctuation
|
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Writing system | Tengwar |
Author | Bryant J. Knight (jan Pije) |
License | All rights reserved
|
TokiTengwar is an adaptation of the Tengwar alphabet 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[edit | edit source]
sitelen telo[edit | edit source]
Sitelen Ko[edit | edit source]
tan seme A[edit | edit source]
tan seme A
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Supported characters | UCSUR |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+F1900 |
Style | sans-serif |
Writing system | logography |
Author | jan Ke Tami |
License | CC0 |
Features | auto-deconstructs cartouches |
First publication | 29 August 2024 |
As a hybrid between sitelen pona UCSUR fonts and Latin script, this font shows any text intended for sitelen pona in Latin script instead. The font doesn't deconstruct words into individual letters, but preserves the logographic representation of the text by showing a whole glyph containing all letters of a word. Regular cartouches and nasin sitelen kalama get deconstructed as individual letters.
tuki tiki fonts[edit | edit source]
tuki tiki is a tokiponido that has a writing system partly from sitelen pona, named titi pula. In addition to this list of fonts, nasin luka (see above) also supports the tuki tiki glyphs, however, they only exist as codepoints.
kiku upi ala[edit | edit source]
kiku upi ala
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Supported characters | All tuki tiki words |
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Style | Pixelated |
Writing system | titi pula |
Author | waso Keli |
License | OFL |
Features | |
First publication | 28 December 2022[1] |
kiku upi ala is a pixelated font created by waso Keli.[37]
lika lili ala[edit | edit source]
lika lili ala
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Supported characters | All tuki tiki words |
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Start of sitelen pona block | U+E000 |
Style | Uniform line weight |
Writing system | titi pula |
Author | kije Enki (ka Aki) |
License | OFL |
Features | A few ligatures |
First publication | 24 December 2023[38] |
lika lili ala (meaning “big line”) is a uniform line weight font created by kije Enki. Its lines are very thick, hence the name. It also has a few ligatures for a a, a a a, and timi a.[39][38]
tama ka Tumu[edit | edit source]
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, jan Ke Tami, waso Keli |
License | OFL |
Features | |
First publication | 13 January 2023 |
tama ka Tumu (meaning "the likeness of ka Tumu") is a titi pula font, with characters written by ka Tumu and vectorized by jan Ke Tami. 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.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 5x5 sitelen pona, sitelen pona kiwen nanpa tu, sitelen pona pi palisa mute, and sitelen pona 7x7 share codepoints with the font sitelen pona kiwen. Google spreadsheet of codepoints - for some of the fonts, it might be necessary to offset codepoints by 100(hex)
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "nimi Linku". Google Sheets. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ↑ "CraftyPE". Modrinth. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ↑ "Fonts". Curioglyphic. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ↑ "Caxton". Modrinth. Retrieved 20 December 2023.
- ↑ jan Lepeka. "Fairfax". KreativeKorp. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
- ↑ waso Keli. "leko majuna". kelseyhigham.github.io. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ↑ waso Keli. (15 November 2022). "ante toki pi musi Seta | toki lili pi mun #2" (in Toki Pona). Ma Toki Pona VR [@TokiPonaVR]. YouTube. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 jan Sipiki [janSipiki]. "linja-Sipiki". GitHub. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
- ↑ jan Sipiki [@jan_sipiki_kipisi]. (12 October 2023). Message in
#pali-musi
. ma pona pi toki pona. Discord. Retrieved 14 January 2024. - ↑ cvni81. (28 April 2024). "Release version 0.1 · cvni1981/linja-laso". GitHub. Archived from the original on 7 June 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 AgentMuffin. (1 October 2021). "linja leko pi luka tu". Fontstruct. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
- ↑ lipamanka [@lipamanka]. (19 January 2023). Message in the
#linja lipamanka
thread in#toki-suli
. ma pona pi toki pona. Discord. Retrieved 4 November 2023. - ↑ lipamanka. linja lipamanka. lipamanka's website. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
- ↑ increpare [u/sitelen_ike]. (21 December 2023). "linja pimeja li nasin sitelen sin pi sitelen pona (new font for sitelen pona called linja pimeja)". Reddit. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
- ↑ jan Ke Tami [u/janKeTami]. (5 November 2021). "linja pimeja pona". Reddit. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
- ↑ jan Ana. "linja suwi la lipu ale" (in Toki Pona). linjasuwi.ap5.dev. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ↑ jan Ana [anna328p]. "linja suwi". GitHub. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
- ↑ kili pan Juli. (6 April 2022). Message in
#font-help
. ma pi nasin sitelen. Discord. Retrieved 4 November 2023. - ↑ "にしき的フォント TVPVS LITTERARVM NISICIAE". umihotaru.work. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
- ↑ Umihotaru. "nasin kepeken pi(sitelen) pi(nasin-sitelen [nimi .. sitelen .. kiwen .. telo .. kili ..])" (PDF) (in Esperanto). umihotaru.work. Retrieved 19 December 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.
- ↑ jan Niko. "Sevenish". saucedlx.neocities.org. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/Szlanty/status/1534367584044433408
- ↑ "sitelen pona kiwen". FontStruct. Archived from the original on 10 March 2024. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ↑ "sitelen pona kiwen nanpa tu". FontStruct. Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ↑ Anšivg [@vectorgraphics9260]. (23 July 2021). Message in
#toki-ale
. ma pona pi toki pona. Discord. - ↑ "End User License Agreement for “sitelen pona pi palisa mute”". Fontstruct. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
- ↑ WMCook. "sitelen pona pi palisa mute". Fontstruct. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
- ↑ jan Lepeka. "sitelen seli kiwen". KreativeKorp. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
- ↑ jan Lepeka. "Relay Fonts". KreativeKorp. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
- ↑ jan Melon [u/just-a-melon]. (17 December 2021). "nimi pi wan ijo - periodic table in toki pona (sitelen pona) according to their etymology". Reddit. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
- ↑ GitHub
- ↑ jan Ke Tami. "mi pali ike e nasin pi sitelen pona lon ilo". YouTube.
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 Jordan W. Martin [u/Jordanwmartinart]. (3 February 2022). "toki pona poster and font available!". Reddit. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ waso Keli [@KelseyHigham]. "kelseyhigham.github.io". GitHub. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 kije Enki [@mikijeenki]. (24 December 2023). Message in
#lipu
. ma pona pi toki pona. Discord. Retrieved 24 December 2023. - ↑ "enky's stuff". enky's stuff. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
External links[edit | edit source]
- Linku maintains a comprehensive list of all fonts
- Comparison of all word glyphs in all fonts
Development and usage | jan Sonja · Toki Pona: The Language of Good (2014) · Tokiponidos · Software (Tools · Fonts) · suno pi toki pona · Toki Pona census · Toki Pona Dictionary (2021) · UCSUR · Linku · ISO 639-3 |
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Conventions | Phonology (Phonotactics) · Words (Tokiponization) · Grammar (Word order) · Social conventions · Writing systems (sitelen Lasina · sitelen pona · sitelen sitelen) · luka pona (sign language) · Number systems · Calendar systems · Styles (Category:pu · pu-rism · Category:ku · Nonstandard) |
Philosophy | Minimalism · Context · Circumlocution · Expression · Lexicalization · Multiple sentences · Comparisons |
Resources | Frequently asked questions · Courses · Dictionaries · Cheat sheets · Visual aids · Communities · Websites · Media |
Text input | Fonts · Input methods (Ajemi · Sitelen Pona Keyboard Layout · Toki Pona Keyboard · Wakalito) · Autocorrect · Text-to-speech · ASCII |
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Standardization | ISO 639-3 · UCSUR |