Characters
Unicode Blocks
Currently Catrinity contains characters in the following Unicode blocks:
- Basic Latin
- Latin-1 Supplement
- Latin Extended-A
- Latin Extended-B
- IPA Extensions
- Spacing Modifier Letters
- Combining Diacritical Marks
- Greek and Coptic
- Cyrillic
- Cyrillic Supplement
- Armenian
- Hebrew
- Arabic
- Arabic Supplement
- Arabic Extended-B
- Arabic Extended-A
- Thai (Baht sign only)
- Tibetan (symbols only)
- Georgian
- Cherokee
- Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
- Ogham
- Runic
- Tagalog
- Hanunoo
- Buhid
- Tagbanwa
- Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended
- Combining Diacritical Marks Extended
- Cyrillic Extended-C
- Georgian Extended
- Phonetic Extensions
- Phonetic Extensions Supplement
- Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement
- Latin Extended Additional
- Greek Extended
- General Punctuation
- Superscripts and Subscripts
- Currency Symbols
- Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols
- Letterlike Symbols
- Number Forms
- Arrows
- Mathematical Operators
- Miscellaneous Technical
- Control Pictures
- Enclosed Alphanumerics
- Box Drawing
- Block Elements
- Geometric Shapes
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Dingbats
- Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
- Supplemental Arrows-A
- Braille Patterns
- Supplemental Arrows-B
- Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
- Supplemental Mathematical Operators
- Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
- Glagolitic
- Latin Extended-C
- Coptic
- Georgian Supplement
- Tifinagh
- Cyrillic Extended-A
- Supplemental Punctuation
- Enclosed CJK Letters and Months (circled numbers only)
- Yijing Hexagram Symbols
- Lisu
- Vai
- Cyrillic Extended-B
- Latin Extended-D
- Latin Extended-E
- Cherokee Supplement
- Alphabetic Presentation Forms
- Arabic Presentation Forms-A
- Variation Selectors
- Small Form Variants
- Arabic Presentation Forms-B
- Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
- Specials
- Ancient Greek Numbers
- Ancient Symbols
- Lycian
- Carian
- Old Italic
- Gothic
- Osage
- Elbasan
- Caucasian Albanian
- Latin Extended-F
- Hatran
- Phoenician
- Lydian
- Old South Arabian
- Old North Arabian
- Old Turkic
- Old Hungarian
- Yezidi
- Elymaic
- Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended-A
- Pau Cin Hau
- Lisu Supplement
- Ancient Greek Musical Notation
- Tai Xuan Jing Symbols
- Counting Rod Numerals
- Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
- Latin Extended-G
- Glagolitic Supplement
- Cyrillic Extended-D
- Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols
- Mahjong Tiles
- Domino Tiles
- Playing Cards
- Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
- Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
- Emoticons
- Transport And Map Symbols
- Alchemical Symbols
- Geometric Shapes Extended
- Supplemental Arrows-C
- Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs
- Chess Symbols
- Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A
- Tags
Please note that not all of these blocks are completed. For a more detailed overview, please see the PDF documents on the right side under “Download”.
Private Use Area
Catrinity contains non-standard characters in the Unicode blocks Private Use Area, Supplementary Private Use Area-A and Supplementary Private Use Area-B. For further details, please refer to the Private Use Area documentation (PDF).
The currently implemented non-standard blocks are:
- Tengwar
- Cirth
- Biblos Compatibility
- Phonetic Extensions Appendix
- MUFI Compatibility-A
- Alphanumeric Supplement
- Gargoyle
- Unifon Extended
- Unifon
- Latin Extended Appendix-A
- MUFI Compatibility-B
- Runic Appendix
- Alphabetic Presentation Forms Appendix
- MUFI-CYFI Compatibility
- Latin Extended Appendix-B
- MUFI-SIL Compatibility
- CYFI Compatibility
- Cyrillic Extended Appendix
- Ath
- MUFI Compatibility-D
- Kodo Symbols
- Mathematical Symbols Appendix
- Geomantic Figures
- Various Symbols
- Geometric Shapes and Technical Symbols Appendix
- Kreative Compatibility
- Apple Compatibility
- Technical Symbols Appendix
- Klingon
- Control Pictures Appendix-A
- Number Forms Appendix
- Enclosed Alphanumerics Appendix
- Partially Enclosed Alphanumerics
- Shidinn
- Domino Tiles Appendix
- Polyhedral Dice
- Hanafuda
- Kabufuda
- Playing Cards Appendix
- Chess Symbols Appendix
- Miscellaneous Game Symbols
- Vexillological Symbols
- Laundry Symbols
- Safety Symbols
- Regional Flags
- GMail Emoji Compatibility
- Pictographs Appendix
- Divine Symbols
- Mathematical Alphanumeric Appendix
- Control Pictures Appendix-B
- Arabic Presentation Forms Appendix
There also is a roadmap for future assignments.
Instructed letters, localized variants etc.
Some characters can be changed in their appearance using OpenType features. Please see OpenType features (PDF) for more details.
Credits
Most characters are own designs and built from scratch, often inspired by looking at several different other fonts to get a feeling for acceptable variations. Some however are based on freely available vector graphics:
- All regional flags (that are not just stripes or other simple geometrical shapes) are based on the samples found in the Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_sovereign_state_flags).
- Most of the Safety Symbols are derivatives of public domain samples found in the Wikipedia (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHS_hazard_pictograms and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_7010).
- The Hanafuda are heavily based on Louie Mantia’s work (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda, CC-BY-SA 4.0), with the colors adjusted to both match Catrinity’s general color scheme and to be more similar to two physical decks of Hanafuda I own.
- Three of the Great Arcana use graphics from Openclipart (the Angel, the Devil and the Happy Squirrel).
- The Staff of Aeasculapius is based on the one found in Twitter Emoji.
- The Zodiac emoji are created from cliparts found on Clipground. The chess pieces Lion and Ox are also derived from these.