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Garmr - The default FENIX UI font
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I don't plan on building OTF and TTF support into any GUI I build. After all,
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that's well outside of my area of expertise, and I'm already way out of my depth
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anyways. Thankfully, BDF/PCF fonts are much simpler. So, bitmap it is.
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Garmr is the official font for any FENIX UI. It's a proportional bitmap font
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with intended full Unicode BMP coverage. Right now, it's just going to be the
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single 12 px high font, but we may add a proper larger variant in the future.
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For now, integer multiples will have to do.
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The Todo file lists all the blocks in the basic multilingual plane in the rough
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order I intend to do things. Being me, I'll likely jump around a lot, just like
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how I've started this font despite still not having a working kernel. But it is
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a decent general order. The biggest oddity (other than it not being in strict
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order) is probably CJK unified ideographs being at the end, but that's a *lot*
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of glyphs to do, plus figuring out regional variants if I can. Basically, I'd
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rather get most of the progress on literally everything *then* worry about that
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entire can of worms. Yeesh. Otherwise, I mostly just put things into a more
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interesting order for me with some practically mixed in. Basic three European
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scripts, then a bunch of symbols, then work on some smaller things that I don't
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necessarily know much about. And, it gives more useful symbols than Latin
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Extended-D. Like, yep. Sure. More Latin characters that no one uses. Great.
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But enough rants about Unicode.
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Building
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If you want to turn this into a proper font, I'm doing this in FontForge. Just
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open it up in FontForge and there should be an option under the File menu. I'll
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add proper instructions here later.
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Contributing
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If you'd like to add glyphs yourself, remember that this is a proportional font,
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so don't leave everything the same width. I tend to leave 1 pixel on either
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side. As for style, use the stuff I've done as a guide.
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Portability
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I haven't decided on BDF or PCF, but those are both standard. They should be
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fine on pretty much any system. The build file is done in FontForge, but it
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might work in other font design software? I dunno.
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Copyright
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Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 by Katlynn Richey
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Garmr is a free font. Feel free to modify and/or distribute it!
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See the file COPYING for more details. |