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diff --git a/system/ttf-babelstone-latin/readme_fonts b/system/ttf-babelstone-latin/readme_fonts new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d9f0a7f5cb --- /dev/null +++ b/system/ttf-babelstone-latin/readme_fonts @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +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. |