I have a proposal that would solve the problem of having to scrollthrough thousands of CJK, Hangul or PUA characters. *As pointed out in the comments, there is a technical limit for TrueType fonts of 65,535 characters, so there’s certainly no point in going beyond that. (PS: We still don’t provide access to codepoints below 30 – control characters.) ![]() Thanks go, as ever, to our Patrons, and to our sponsors GlyphsApp (the world’s leading desktop type-design software) whose continuing support makes the development of features like this possible. Note that we broke up some of the huge code blocks, such as the CJK extensions, into smaller, numbered blocks.įull unicode support has been a very frequent request over the years, so it’s great to finally be able to deliver. There are many more options of course (360 letter sets), and also a handy new search box to quickly find what you are looking for (desktop only). The letter-set select box in the bottom-left corner of the FontStructor has changed. You will find all the new letters by selecting “Expert Mode” and then “Menu”, “Advanced”, “Unicode Letter Sets”: ![]() There’s still a long way to go in order to fully support the variety of scripts we’d like to see on FontStruct, but supporting Unicode is, I hope, a good start. The main reason for expanding the number of letters available on FontStruct is to allow designers to access and design a greater variety of scripts, in particular writing systems – such as Chinese scripts – which use a large number of characters, and also scripts, such as Sogdian or Old Sogdian for example, which we’ve simply overlooked until now. Once you get over about 10,000, you will find that the site and editor will start struggling. Now you could design a FontStruction containing as many as 143,859 letters*! I wouldn’t recommend that though. all the letters) defined in the most recently released standard ( Unicode 13). Every letter (or letter-like thing) is assigned a code number, and these numbers are used to help identify letters inside computer fonts.īefore today, FontStruct supported only parts of Unicode, but now we’re finally providing access to all of the “code blocks” (i.e. This comprehensive list is maintained by an international group of experts. Today we’re adding many more letters (the entire Unicode 13 standard) to FontStruct.įor those of you unfamiliar with the term, Unicode is a huge long list of all the letters and letter-like things which are used by all kinds of writing systems from all parts of the world.
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