GNU Unifont
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| Category | Unicode, Bitmap, Sans-serif |
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| Classification | Semi-monospace |
| Designer(s) | Roman Czyborra, Paul Hardy |
| Date created | 1998 |
| Date released | December 22, 2016 (Version 9.0.06) |
| License | GNU General Public License |
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The GNU Unifont by Roman Czyborra is a free bitmap font that covers the entire Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), using an intermediate bitmapped font format.
It is present in most free operating systems and windowing systems such as Linux, XFree86 or the X.Org Server and some embedded firmware such as RockBox. The font is released under the GNU General Public License Version 2+ with a font embedding exception (embedding the font in a document does not in itself constitute a license violation).
It became a GNU package in October 2013.
The Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane covers 216 = 65,536 code points. Of this number, 2048 are reserved for special use as UTF-16 surrogate pairs and 6,400 are reserved for private use. This leaves 57,088 code points to which glyphs can be assigned. Some of these code points are special values that do not have an assigned glyph, but most do have assigned glyphs.
As of December 2016[update], the GNU Unifont has complete coverage of the Basic Multilingual Plane as defined in Unicode 9.0. the companion font, Unifont Upper, has significant coverage of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane as well as the ConScript Unicode Registry, while the Unicode ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) PUA Glyphs has the ConScript Registry. Scripts that are < 100% complete can be augmented by any contributor.
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