Mona Font
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Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
proportional font
Typeface
In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....
for the X Window System
X Window System
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, derived from the Shinonome raster font family. It aims to represent Shift JIS art
Shift JIS art
Shift_JIS art is artwork created from characters within the Shift JIS character set, a superset of ASCII intended for Japanese usage. Naturally there are many similarities between Shift_JIS artwork and ASCII art....
graphics properly, almost all of which require the MS PGothic font. Mona is named after Mona, a character-based mascot of 2channel
2channel
is a Japanese textboard. In 2007 there were 2.5 million posts made every day. Launched in 1999, it has gained significant influence in Japanese society, comparable to that of traditional mass media such as television, radio, and magazines. As of 2008, the site generates revenue upwards of ¥100...
. Current version is 2.90.
Mona uses glyphs from Shinonome (東雲) version 0.9.9 (Gothic) for embedded bitmaps. In version 2.30-pre, it incorporated outline from Kochi-Gothic. However, it was changed to Kochi-substitute in 2.30-pre2 after discovering the copyright violation in Kochi font
Kochi font
Kochi font was a font development project to build free replacements of proprietary fonts such as MS Gothic or MS Mincho, developed by Yasuyuki Furukawa . The project consisted of Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts. It was released in the public domain.- Plagiarism controversy :The Kochi Mincho...
. Glyphs share the characteristics of MS PGothic.
Mona supports following code pages: 1252 (Latin 1), 1250 (Latin 2: East Europe), 1251 (Cyrillic), 1253 (Greek), 932 (JIS/Japan), 737 (Greek; former 437G), 437 (US).
mona-outline
mona-outline version 2.30pre2 is included with the source code for Mona Font source package, which consists a subset of glyphs found in Mona. OpenType layout table supports standard ligature in Default Language. When the font is viewed under Windows Font Viewer, a horizontal stroke overlays the glyph.mona-outline supports following code pages: 932 (JIS/Japan), 437 (US).
IPA monafont
IPA monafont is an extension of IPA Font (IPAフォント), Sazanami Font (さざなみフォント), Mona Font (モナーフォント), M+ Fonts (M+フォント) created by Jun Kobayashi, which consists of a family of fonts:- IPAMonaGothic (IPA モナー ゴシック)
- IPAMonaMincho (IPA モナー 明朝)
- IPAMonaPGothic (IPA モナー P ゴシック)
- IPAMonaPMincho (IPA モナー P 明朝)
- IPAMonaUIGothic (IPA モナー UI ゴシック)
IPA monafont family supports following code pages: 1252 (Latin 1), 1251 (Cyrillic), 932 (JIS/Japan), 950 (Big-5), Macintosh Character Set (US Roman), Windows OEM Character Set, 866 (MS-DOS Russian), 865 (MS-DOS Nordic), 863 (MS-DOS Canadian French), 861 (MS-DOS Icelandic), 860 (MS-DOS Portuguese), 855 (IBM Cyrillic; primary Russian), 437 (US).
Glyphs for CJK ideographs are reworked to look more like Arial Unicode MS
Arial Unicode MS
In digital typography, the TrueType font Arial Unicode MS is an extended version of the font Arial. Compared to Arial, it includes higher line height, omits kerning pairs and adds enough glyphs to cover a large subset of Unicode 2.1—thus supporting most Microsoft code pages, but also requiring much...
, while sub-glyphs for these characters are repositioned and rescaled. Similar to the MS Gothic and MS Mincho font families, reverse solidus glyph uses yen sign instead of backslash. Similar non-standard can be found in Gulim and Dotum family.
Current version is 1.0.5.
Font statistics
| Font | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode Code Range | IPAMonaGothic | IPAMonaMincho | IPAMonaPGothic | IPAMonaPMincho | IPAMonaUIGothic | Mona | mona-outline |
| Arrows | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Basic Latin | 96 | 96 | 95 | 97 | 96 | 96 | 95 |
| Box Drawing | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| CJK Compatibility | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 0 |
| CJK Compatibility Ideographs | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 34 | 8 | 0 |
| CJK Symbols and Punctuation | 24 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 24 | 24 | 15 |
| CJK Unified Ideographs | 6682 | 6682 | 6682 | 6682 | 6682 | 6426 | 0 |
| Cyrillic | 66 | 66 | 66 | 70 | 66 | 66 | 0 |
| Enclosed Alphanumerics | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 |
| Enclosed CJK Letters and Months | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| General Punctuation | 15 | 14 | 29 | 30 | 14 | 17 | 9 |
| Geometric Shapes | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| Greek and Coptic | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 0 |
| Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms | 163 | 163 | 163 | 163 | 163 | 163 | 136 |
| Hiragana | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 57 |
| Katakana | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | 79 |
| Latin-1 Supplement | 95 | 95 | 95 | 95 | 95 | 9 | 3 |
| Letterlike Symbols | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Mathematical Operators | 37 | 36 | 37 | 36 | 36 | 36 | 0 |
| Miscellaneous Symbols | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 0 |
| Miscellaneous Technical | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Number Forms | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 0 |
| Optical Character Recognition | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | IPAMonaGothic | IPAMonaMincho | IPAMonaPGothic | IPAMonaPMincho | IPAMonaUIGothic | Mona | mona-outline |
| Number of characters | 7575 | 7573 | 7588 | 7595 | 7573 | 7211 | 395 |
| Number of glyphs | 12925 | 8716 | 9491 | 8738 | 9305 | 7226 | 398 |
Note: Some glyphs representing non-whitespace characters are blank.