Rich Felker's UCF fonts collection

This archive contains both compiled UCF fonts (suitable for use with
uuterm or, in the future, maybe other programs) and the 'source code'
(text format) for these fonts. Generally the source files have either
no suffix or a suffix of .txt or .hex, while the .ucf suffix is used
for compiled fonts.

Moreover, each compiled font file is built from multiple source files,
by feeding the concatenation of the source files into the "compiler",
so the compiled files are aggregates of many of the below-mentioned
works.

The (horribly hackish, incomplete, and undocumented) font compiler is
located in the TOOLS directory, along with Roman Czyborra's "hexdraw"
tool from the GNU Unifont project, which partially works for UCF
source files too. Feel free to play with these tools, it you dare.
Proper, documented tools will be published eventually.



Materials in this collection:


Original works:

ytty/         - pronounced like "yeti". This font is resurrected from
                an old project I began in 1998, with a goal similar to
                the popular "Terminus" font, but with some stylistic
                differences and a focus on avoiding curves that look
                pixellated at low resolution and on sharp displays.
                It's now being extended to cover all of the BMP.

rayn/         - contains a version of my font "rayn", adapted from
                another BDF font I drew in 1998 and extended from
                Latin-1 to include more characters. It will eventually
                be unified with the huge coverage of ytty to provide
                a stylized alternative.

tibetan/      - a new font from scratch, for the Tibetan script. Many
                contextual variants are included, some to conform to
                orthographic rules and others for the sake of
                legibility. Used in the other fonts above.

Converted fonts/modified works:

vga/          - a standard 'VGA style' console font. Diacritics and
                non-Latin characters will be added in the same style,
                eventually.

unifont/      - coverage for Japanese and Thai, converted from GNU
                Unifont project. Mainly, missing combining marks were
                added and precomposed glyphs were deleted.