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Whyolet Font

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Let's try to make a simple font:

  • Latin alphabet has relatively few letters and is widely used.
  • All languages can be transliterated to latin letters.
  • There are 26 big and 26 small latin letters.
  • Sometimes we are required to use big letters only: for clarity.
  • Some alphabets like Georgian don't have a split to big and small letters.
  • So let's design just 26 big letters and use small-caps style if we need both big and small letters.
  • We also need 10 arabic digits, also widely used.
  • 26 + 10 = 36, so we can put the alphabet into a simple table 6x6.
  • We can use a simple grid 2x4 to draw each letter and each digit.
  • Let's use as few simple straight lines as possible to make it clear which symbol it is.
  • Each letter and digit should not lead to confusion like letter O and digit 0.
  • The same form of a symbol can be reused multiple times using rotation like C and U.
  • Symbols are grouped using consistent style, e.g. letters S and Z vs digits 5 and 2.

TODO

License

  • This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
  • This license is available with a FAQ at https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

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