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+ttf-babelstone-latin contains the following fonts
+
+BabelStone Roman:
+
+It is a Unicode serif font covering the Latin script.
+It was designed primarily for use in phonetic
+transcription of Tangut, but may be useful for
+other purposes. he current version of the font supports
+Unicode 15.0 and covers all 1,481 Latin script
+characters defined in Unicode 15.0.
+
+BabelStone Englisc:
+
+It is a font for Old English in the general style of
+the Anglo-Saxon font cut for Franciscus Junius (1591–1677)
+in about 1655, and used in various editions of Anglo-Saxon
+texts published in Oxford during the 17th and 18th centuries,
+for example the Anglo-Saxon Heptateuch compiled by Edward
+Thwaites, and published in 1698. The font uses the same
+letterforms as the Junius font, but not necessarily exactly
+same glyph forms. Some characters are double-mapped, both to
+their proper Unicode code point and to the
+semantically-corresponding character
+(e.g. 'wynn' maps to 'wynn' and 'w'; and 'and' maps
+to 'tyronian et' and 'ampersand').
+
+NB: This font is only available in regular style, and
+there are no bold or italic versions.
+
+BabelStone Goblin fonts:
+
+BabelStone Goblin and BabelStone Goblin Vertical are two
+versions of a font based on North Polar Bear's Goblin
+alphabet in J. R. R. Tolkien's Father Christmas Letters (1976).
+
+BabelStone Goblin is designed for horizontal layout, whereas
+BabelStone Goblin Vertical is designed for vertical layout.
+Note that the glyphs of the vertical font will be rotated
+counterclockwise with respect to normal reading orientation
+when used in horizontal contexts
+
+BabelStone Centaurian:
+
+BabelStone Centaurian is a font based on the Centaurian
+alphabet used in the first UK edition of Artemis Fowl :
+The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer (it has been replaced
+by the ubiquitous Gnommish script in the American and
+recent UK editions).
+
+The Centaurian alphabet is cypher of the English alphabet,
+but with the twist that the space character is a
+non-blank glyph and the character corresponding to the letter
+T is a blank space.
+
+BabelStone Pigpen fonts:
+
+BabelStone Pigpen is an extended version of one of the most
+common pigpen ciphers, with glyphs for all characters in the
+Basic Latin block.
+
+BabelStone Club Penguin is an extended version of the
+pigpen cipher used on Club Penguin, with glyphs for all
+characters in the Basic Latin block.
+
+BabelStone Leeson is the pigpen cipher used on the tombstone
+of James Leeson (died 1794) in the graveyard of Trinity Church
+on Broadway in New York. This cipher represents the 24-letter
+alphabet of the 18th century, so that I/J and U/V are not
+distinguished. There are three spare berths in the third pigpen,
+which I have assigned to ampersand, question mark and exclamation mark.