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UnifontEX

Designed By

stgiga

1 Style Display

The evening
edition.

UnifontEX · Regular

Try a short headline and compare the letterforms at a larger scale.

1 style available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.

Download UnifontEX ↓

TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

Every script, 16 pixels tall

A Headline In Place

UnifontEX · Regular

A poster setting with supporting text.

Theatre / Music / Conversation

An Evening
In Good
Company.

Friday · 7:30 pm
The Assembly Rooms

1 Style,
One Family

Every available style is shown below in its own font file.

Regular400

Every script, 16 pixels tall

The README subtitle says the EX stands for Evil Xylophone. Behind the joke is a serious piece of patching: stgiga took the last TrueType release of GNU Unifont, 15.0.06-JP, which has more characters than the standard build, and merged it with Unifont Upper 11.0.01, the last version of the upper planes that would still merge, after stripping out the boxes Unifont uses as placeholders for unassigned code points. Characters from Unifont-JP 16 and 17 were added on top later.

GNU Unifont goes back to 1998 and Roman Czyborra, and Paul Hardy maintains it today. Every glyph is bitmapped, 16 pixels tall, 8 wide for most Western letters and 16 for most CJK, so although it is duospaced it behaves like a monospace in practice. Dozens of people have contributed to it.

Why go to the trouble? stgiga uses it as a terminal and coding font and set its metrics so that editors and terminals which only accept monospaced fonts will load it, which gives 1 font that can show almost anything a log file throws at it. The scripts run from Latin, Arabic and Devanagari to Linear B, Runic, Old Turkic and Mende Kikakui, 65,498 characters in all.

There are builds for odd places too: LVGL for embedded displays, FONTX2 for DOS/V machines, Adafruit_GFX, PostScript Type42 for old printers and a LibreCAD font.

We would not set a heading in it. As a fallback behind a nicer font, it catches characters that almost nothing else on the system can draw.

UnifontEX type specimen with letters and figures
UnifontEX · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

65,498 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬®¯°±²³´µ·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿĀāĂ㥹ĆćĈĉĊċČčĎďĐđĒēĔĕĖėĘęĚěĜĝĞğĠġĢģĤĥĦħĨĩĪīĬĭĮįİıIJijĴĵĶķĸĹĺĻļĽľĿŀŁłŃńŅņŇňʼnŊŋŌōŎŏŐőŒœŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšŢţŤťŦŧŨũŪūŬŭŮůŰűŲųŴŵŶŷŸŹźŻżŽžſƀƁƂƃƄƅƆƇƈƉƊƋƌƍƎƏƐƑƒƓƔƕƖƗƘƙƚƛƜƝƞƟƠơƢƣƤƥƦƧƨƩƪƫƬƭƮƯưƱƲƳƴƵƶƷƸƹƺƻƼƽƾƿǀǁǂǃDŽDždžLJLjljNJNjnjǍǎǏǐǑǒǓ

The Font Files

Download
UnifontEX

1 TTF style with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 3.6 MB ↓
Version
15.0.06
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Read The Font License ↗

Install On Your Computer

Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.

Use On A Website

Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.

<link rel="stylesheet"
  href="/fonts/unifontex/unifontex.css">

body {
  font-family: 'UnifontEX', sans-serif;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.

UnifontEX Heading · Inter Body

The Evening Performance

Doors open at seven. The performance begins at half past. Please take your seat before the lights go down.