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Nowar DIN · Nowar DIN Cursive

Nowar DIN and Nowar DIN Cursive are DIN-inspired font packs for World of Warcraft and WoW Classic that support all client languages.

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Download the Fonts

Latest release at GitHub

Mirrors: Gitee (Release Repo)

Nowar DIN and Nowar DIN Cursive are shipped in 4 weights and 5 regional variants with a prebuilt feature variant, respectively.

Weights

300: Light
400: Regular
500: Medium
700: Bold

Regional Variants

Bliz and Neut are “standard variants” with regional Chinese character orthographies.

	European and 한국어	简体中文	繁體中文	Note
Bliz	Mainland China	Mainland China	Taiwan	Acts like WoW’s default fallback setting.
Neut	Classical	Mainland China	Taiwan	Prefers classical orthography on fallback.

CL is the “classical variant” with classical Chinese character orthography (aka Kāngxī Dictionary forms).

	All languages
CL	Classical

PSimp and PSimpChat are special variants for 繁體中文 that remap traditional Chinese character to simplified ones.

	繁體中文-related non-chat fonts	繁體中文 chat fonts	European, 简体中文 and 한국어
PSimp	Mainland China (Remapped)	Mainland China	N/A
PSimpChat	Mainland China (Remapped)	Mainland China (Remapped)	N/A

European: English, Español (AL), Português, Deutsch, Español (EU), Français, Italiano, and Русский.
繁體中文-related fonts include FRIZQT__ and ARIALN, which are hard-coded in some addons.

Features

Tag	Name	Description
OSF	Oldstyle	Oldstyle (non-lining), monospaced figure.
RP	Roleplaying	`丶` (U+4E36) is mapped to the same glyph as `·` (U+00B7, MIDDLE DOT).

Prebuilt feature variant: Bliz,OSF.

How to Build

Dependencies

basic Unix utils,
Python,
otfcc and
7-Zip (add to PATH).

Note:

Choose 64-bit version if possible. 32-bit version may lead to out-of-memory issue.

Build Feature Variant

Prepare submodules:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Run configure.py to generate Makefile:

python configure.py

Put Source Han Sans OTF files (all families but HW) to source/shs/.

Then make a specific variant:

make <family>-<region>,<features>-<weight> -j<threads>

where family is Sans (Nowar DIN) or Cursive (Nowar DIN Cursive). Note: Features must be sorted alphabetically. (OSF, RP).

e.g.

make Cursive-CN,OSF,RP-400 -j4

The output is out/NowarDIN-<region>,<features>-<weight>-<version>.7z or out/NowarDINCursive-<region>,<features>-<weight>-<version>.7z.

Create Regional Variant

To build exactly what you need, modify configure.py:

class Config:
    # put your variant here
    fontPackRegion = [ <your_region> ]

# define the variant here.
regionalVariant = { ... }

For example, the “CNmulti” multi-orthography variant,

	European	简体中文	繁體中文	한국어
CNmulti	Mainland China	Mainland China	Taiwan	S. Korea

class Config:
    fontPackRegion = [ "CNmulti" ]

regionalVariant = {
    "CNmulti": {
        "base": "CN",
        "enUS": True,
        "ruRU": True,
        "zhCN": "CN",
        "zhTW": "TW",
        "koKR": "KR",
    }
}

Then, run python configure.py to generate Makefile. The new regional variant (with optional feature) can be built by:

make <family>-<region>,<features>-<weight> -j<threads>

e.g.

make Cursive-CNmulti-400 -j4
make Cursive-CNmulti,OSF-400 -j4

Credit

Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters are from Iosevka by Belleve Invis, with some modifications.

CJK Ideographs, Kana and Hangul are from Source Han Sans by Adobe.

The traditional Chinese to simplified Chinese conversion table is from Open Chinese Convert project.

nowar-fonts/Nowar-DIN