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