CJK Symbols is a special-purpose CID-keyed OpenType/CFF (aka OTF) font that includes the glyphs for the following 21 Unicode blocks, and covers 19 of them in their entirety:
- Spacing Modifier Letters — only U+02EA and U+02EB
- Enclosed Alphanumerics
- Dingbats — only U+2776 through U+2793
- Ideographic Description Characters
- CJK Symbols and Punctuation
- Hiragana
- Katakana
- Bopomofo
- Hangul Compatibility Jamo
- Kanbun
- Bopomofo Extended
- CJK Strokes
- Katakana Phonetic Extensions
- Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
- CJK Compatibility
- Vertical Forms
- CJK Compatibility Forms
- Small Form Variants
- Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
- Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
- Enclosed Ideographic Supplement
Also included in this project is a TrueType (aka TTF) version of the font that is necessary for Unicode code chart production. The vast majority of its glyphs are derived from Source Han Serif, specifically the Regular weight.
The latest pre-built binary version of the font, in both OTF and TTF formats, can be easily downloaded from the Latest Release.
This font is expected to be used as a replacement code chart font starting from Unicode Version 14.0.
To build the binary font files from source, you need to have installed the Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO) tools. The AFDKO tools are widely used for font development today, and are part of most font editor apps.
In this repository, all necessary files are in place for building the CID-keyed OpenType/CFF and TrueType fonts, and the build.sh file can simply be executed.
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