This is an R data package that includes every "hex" font file from the GNU Unifont project compressed by xz
. It includes a convenience function that loads several of them as a {bittermelon} bm_font()
object. GNU Unifont is a duospaced bitmap font (8x16 and 16x16 glyphs) that pretty much covers all of the official Unicode glyphs plus several of the artificial scripts in the (Under-)ConScript Unicode Registry.
{hexfont}
includes all the hex font files included in the GNU Unifont
source code distribution. The version number is stripped from the file names in the precompiled
directory and
the hex fonts are all compressed by xz
but other than that the hex fonts are otherwise unchanged.
hex_dir <- system.file("font", package = "hexfont") list.files(hex_dir, pattern = ".hex.xz", recursive = TRUE)
## [1] "plane00/alt/codepage-437.hex.xz" ## [2] "plane00/alt/mongolian-vertical.hex.xz" ## [3] "plane00/alt/phags-pa-vertical.hex.xz" ## [4] "plane00/alt/quad-width.hex.xz" ## [5] "plane00/alt/reiwa-vertical.hex.xz" ## [6] "plane00/alt/uni0009-orig.hex.xz" ## [7] "plane00/copyleft.hex.xz" ## [8] "plane00/custom00.hex.xz" ## [9] "plane00/hangul-syllables.hex.xz" ## [10] "plane00/izmg16-plane00.hex.xz" ## [11] "plane00/omit.hex.xz" ## [12] "plane00/plane00-nonprinting.hex.xz" ## [13] "plane00/plane00-unassigned.hex.xz" ## [14] "plane00/pua.hex.xz" ## [15] "plane00/spaces.hex.xz" ## [16] "plane00/unifont-base.hex.xz" ## [17] "plane00/wqy.hex.xz" ## [18] "plane00csur/plane00csur-nonprinting.hex.xz" ## [19] "plane00csur/plane00csur-spaces.hex.xz" ## [20] "plane00csur/plane00csur.hex.xz" ## [21] "plane01/plane01-nonprinting.hex.xz" ## [22] "plane01/plane01.hex.xz" ## [23] "plane01/space.hex.xz" ## [24] "plane02/izmg16-plane02.hex.xz" ## [25] "plane0E/plane0E-nonprinting.hex.xz" ## [26] "plane0E/plane0E.hex.xz" ## [27] "plane0Fcsur/plane0Fcsur-nonprinting.hex.xz" ## [28] "plane0Fcsur/plane0Fcsur.hex.xz" ## [29] "precompiled/unifont_jp_sample.hex.xz" ## [30] "precompiled/unifont_jp.hex.xz" ## [31] "precompiled/unifont_sample.hex.xz" ## [32] "precompiled/unifont_upper_sample.hex.xz" ## [33] "precompiled/unifont_upper.hex.xz" ## [34] "precompiled/unifont.hex.xz"
The main function unifont()
loads in several GNU Unifont hex files at the same time as a {bittermelon} bm_font()
object. Arguments:
| Argument | Meaning | Default |
--- | --- | ---
| upper | Include glyphs above the Unicode Basic Multilingual plane | TRUE
|
| jp | Use Japanese version of Chinese characters | FALSE
|
| csur | Include (Under-)Conscript Unicode Registry glyphs | TRUE
|
| sample | Add circle to "Combining" characters | FALSE
|
| ucp | Character vector of Unicode Code Points to only load | NULL
|
library("bittermelon") # remotes::install_github("trevorld/bittermelon")
## ## Attaching package: 'bittermelon'
## The following object is masked from 'package:base': ## ## which
library("hexfont") # remotes::install_github("trevorld/hexfont") system.time(font <- unifont()) # Unifont is a **big** font
## user system elapsed ## 52.149 0.148 52.324
length(font) |> prettyNum(big.mark = ",") # number of glyphs
## [1] "79,162"
object.size(font) |> format(units = "MB") # memory used
## [1] "118.4 Mb"
# Faster to load from a cache saveRDS(font, "unifont.rds") system.time(font <- readRDS("unifont.rds"))
## user system elapsed ## 0.411 0.000 0.411
# Or just load the subset of GNU Unifont you need s <- "R很棒!" system.time(font_s <- unifont(ucp = str2ucp(s)))
## user system elapsed ## 0.662 0.000 0.662
# Mandarin Chinese as_bm_bitmap(s, font = font_s) |> bm_compress("v")
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# Emoji as_bm_bitmap("🐭🐲🐵", font = font) |> bm_compress("v")
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# Klingon as_bm_list("", font = font) |> bm_pad(type = "trim", left = 1L, right = 1L) |> bm_call(cbind) |> bm_compress("v")
## ## ▄█▄ ▄▄██▀▀ ▀▀████████ ▄▀ ▄█▄ ▄█▀ ▀█▄ ▄▄ ## ▄▄██████▀ ▀██ ▀ ▄█▀ ███▀▀ ███ ██ ▀████████ ## ▀██ ██ ▄███ ▄█ ▄██ ██▀ ▀██▄▄█▀ ██▀ ▀██ ## ▀ █▄ ███ ███▄▄▄▄▄██ ▄███ ▀███▀ ▄█▀ █▀ ## █▄ ▀█▄ ██▀▀▀▀▀▀███ ▄██████▄ ▀█▄ ▄█▀ █▀ ## ▀▄ ▀▀▄ ▄▀ ▀█▄ ▀▀▄ ▀▀▄ ▄▀ ▀ ##
# Tengwar with combining glyphs bml <- as_bm_list("", font = font) to_raise <- which(names(bml) %in% c("U+E04A", "U+E04E")) bml[to_raise] <- bm_shift(bml[to_raise], top = 1L) bml |> bm_compose(pua_combining = unifont_combining()) |> bm_pad(type = "trim", left = 1L, right = 1L) |> bm_call(cbind) |> bm_compress("v")
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The overall license for this package is GPL (>=2) but the bundled hex font files
are also available under more permissive terms. Excerpt from font/COPYING
License for font/plane00/jiskan16-plane00.hex and font/plane02/jiskan16-plane02.hex:
These two files are in the Public Domain. They were created from Public Domain BDF font files jiskan16-2004-1.bdf and jiskan16-2000-2.bdf.License for font files except the jiskan16 files mentioned above are dual-licensed under the SIL Open Font License version 1.1, and under this GNU license:
All glyphs are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 or (at your option) a later version, with the GNU font embedding exception: ** GPL v2.0 license with font embedding exception: As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
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