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This writing system of raised dots was created by Louis Braille (1809-1852), a French teacher of the blind. It is now used by blind people worldwide. Correspondence of dot patterns to letters (or entire words) varies by language so the Unicode standard simply identifies the pattern, not the meaning.
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Braille
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(UBraille.ttf) Source: Free download from the Yudit home page. Stats: Version 001.000 has 451 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Braille (six-dot only) |
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Code2000
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(code2000.ttf) Source: Download this shareware font ($5) from James Kass's webpage. Stats: Version 1.16 has 61,864 glyphs and 239 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Baluchi, Kirghiz, Persian, Shahmukhi, Sindhi, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek), Armenian, Bengali, Braille, Canadian Syllabics (all syllabaries, all characters), Cherokee, Chinese (Bopomofo only, including Extended), Cirth, Coptic, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Ethiopic (including supplement and extended blocks), Ewellic, Georgian (Mkhedruli and Asomtavruli), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, IPA, Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji/Han Ideographs including Extension A), Klingon, Korean (Hangul only), Lao, Latin, Limbu, Mongolian, N'Ko, Ogham, Phaistos, Runic, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Tengwar, Thaana, Thai, Tifinagh, Vietnamese, Yi OpenType Layout Tables: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Buhid, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Han Ideographic, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, Hebrew, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, N'Ko, Tamil, Telugu, Thai |
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DejaVu Sans
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(DejaVuSans.ttf, DejaVuSans-Bold, DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf, and DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf from dejavu-ttf-version.zip) Note: The "DejaVu Sans Condensed" font is also available. Source: Free download from DejaVu project on SourceForge. Stats: Version 2.10 has 3,932 glyphs and 2,558 kerning pairs Support: Arabic script (Arabic, Persian), Armenian, Braille, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic and Coptic characters), IPA, Latin, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: default, Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic (default, Macedonian, Serbian), Greek, Hebrew, Lao, Latin (default, Dinka) |
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Free Mono / Free Monospaced
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(FreeMono.ttf, FreeMonoBold.ttf, FreeMonoOblique.ttf, and FreeMonoBoldOblique.ttf from freefont-ttf-20060126.tar.gz) Note: Bold and italic styles support fewer characters than the "regular" font. Source: Free download from Savannah. Stats: Version 1.23 has 2,577 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Armenian, Braille, Cyrillic (all or most of range), Greek (including polytonic), Hebrew, Latin, Runic, Vietnamese OpenType Layout Tables: Hebrew, Latin |
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ghUBraille
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(ghUBraille.ttf) Note: Latin letters are also mapped to Braille patterns. Source: Free download from the MathSpeak website, which utilizes Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics and Science. Stats: Version 002.000 has 997 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Braille (six-dot only) |
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Komikaze
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(komikaze.ttf from kmkz_tt.zip) Source: Free download of pack 0045 from an Apostrophe archive site. Stats: Version 1.0 has 1,281 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Braille, Cyrillic (Russian plus other Slavic and non-Slavic languages), Greek, Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Braille, Cyrillic, Greek, Latin (default, Baltic, German, Turkish) |
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Y.OzFont
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(YOzFont.TTF) Note: Also available in combinations of styles: bold (B), antique kana (A), new kana (N), proportional (P), OpenType (O), with SJIJ F040 - F9FC in U+E000 - U+E757 (G). There is also a TrueType font collection (ttc) containing several of these styles. (See the chart (各フォントの特徴一覧) for more details.) Source: Free download from Y. Oz Vox. Stats: Version 9.15 has 59,678 glyphs and no kerning pairs Support: Braille, Cyrillic (Russian), Greek, IPA (some), Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana including Phonetic Extensions, Kanji/Han Ideographs), Latin OpenType Layout Tables: Kana (default, Japanese) |
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This page was last updated on 2006-05-26