Junicode
Junicode (short for Junius-Unicode) is a Unicode font for medievalists. The current version is a beta; the selection of characters and the arrangement of the Private Use Area are subject to change. Your comments, suggestions and bug reports will be a great help to me as I complete the project.
Junicode currently contains 1310 characters in the regular style (the italic, bold and bold italic styles are less complete). For a list of these characters, see the documentation. New in version 0.6.3:
- Runic range added
- Phonetic Extensions range added
- Selection of diacritics greatly expanded
- Proportions refined for improved screen display
- Improved documentation in HTML
- Released under the GNU Public License
- See further Changes.txt in the archive
Junicode is now available in three versions. Choose the one that's right for you:
- OpenType/CFF for Windows/Linux. Use this version if you can: if you're running Windows 2000 or XP, or your Linux system uses FreeType 2.
- OpenType/TrueType for Windows/Linux. Use this version if you can't use OpenType/CFF: for example, if you are running Windows 98 or a Linux system that uses FreeType 1. These fonts will look good only if anti-aliasing (font-smoothing or ClearType) is turned on in your system.
- OpenType/CFF for Macintosh OS X. I don't know if this will work in OS 9: see Alan Wood's Unicode page for the rather involved procedure for installing Unicode support in that system.
- Source code (requires PfaEdit)