Enuncial
A reimagining of Visigothic Uncial for the modern age
Calligraphic warmth captured an early medieval spirit with truly extensive character support
(Note: Enuncial is still very much under development. Both character support and the spacing between letters has not been finalised and some combinations may be quite off. Character designs are still subject to change. The assignment of Stylistic Set and Character Variants is subject to change. Furthermore, not all glyphs may be present in every release. The glyphs used to represent numbers on this page are also not the standard numbers in Enuncial but smaller alternates.)
Enuncial is intended to have a proper Italics, Bold and Bold Italic weights but these will have to come later. Fake italics are currently used on this page. Certain glyphs may have coloured variants in the future if that how to position them so they are properly imported can be figured out.
A profile of Enuncial will be added soon.
Status Report
7181 glyphs are ready for final kerning adjustments
Completed: Analytical Engine, Jacquard Loom Code, 1728 Falcon Loom Code, Braille Patterns, Box Drawing, Optical Character Recognition, Control Codes
38 glyphs currently included from the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative
398 additional glyphs to be included in the Private Use Area
(Additions are extra symbols/pictographs, extra shapes, precomposed diacritics, including for conlang usage and archaic forms, including Greek ligatures.
There are also added stylistic and positional variations for symbols/pictographs.)
Unicode Support Breakdown
Basic Latin: 93/95
Latin-1 Supplement: 41/96
Latin Extended-A: 8/128
Latin Extended-B: 33/208
Latin Extended-C: 9/32
Latin Extended-D: 35/193
Latin Extended-E: 4/60
Latin Extended-F: 5/57
Latin Extended-G: 1/37
Latin Extended Additional: 13/256
Superscripts and Subscripts: 41/42
General Punctuation:
Supplemental Punctuation: 82/94
CJK Symbols and Punctuation: 17/64
CJK Compatibility Forms: 6/32
Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms: 1/225
Vertical Forms: 2/10
Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement: 1/200
Greek and Coptic: 93/135
Katakana: 1/96
Arabic: 1/256
Arabic Extended-A: 7/96
Avestan: 7/61
Hebrew: 1/88
Cyrillic: 38/256
Cyrillic Supplement: 5/48
Georgian: 1/88
United Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics: 12/640
Mongolian: 1/158
Braille Patterns: 256/256
Musical Symbols: 26/233
Letterlike Symbols: 6/80
Alchemical Symbols: 2/124
Mathematical Operators: 193/256
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A: 41/48
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B: 93/128
Supplemental Mathematical Operators: 93/256
Arrows: 32/112
Supplemental Arrows-A: 1/16
Supplemental Arrows-B: 31/128
Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows: 64/253
Miscellaneous Symbols: 102/256
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs: 158/768
Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A: 4/107
Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs: 14/256
Transport and Map Symbols: 7/118
Dingbats: 45/192
Geometric Shapes: 95/96
Geometric Shapes Extended: 45/103
Miscellaneous Technical: 221/256
Spacing Modifier Letters: 29/80
Modifier Tone Letters: 2/32
IPA Extensions: 25/96
Phonetic Extensions: 68/128
Phonetic Extensions Supplement: 9/64
Optical Character Recognition: 11/11
Control Pictures: 39/39
Box Drawing: 128/128
Combining Diacritical Marks: 35/112
Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement: 12/64
Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols: 8/33
Other OpenType Features
Small Capitals: 56 (Includes those part of Unicode)
Petite Capitals: 257 (Includes those part of Unicode)
Oldstyle Figures: 11 (Due to high ratio between cap height and x-height of this typeface, oldstyle figures only vary by having a constant reduced size)
Tabular Figures: 20
Scripts: 380 per position (This means Superscripts, Ordinals/Numerators, Denominators and Subscripts/Scientific Inferiors)
Case-Sensitive Forms: 39
Discretionary Ligatures: 22
Stylistic Sets
ss01: Stylistic Alternates: 362 (Including flipped versions for symbols with a direction, alternate pictograph designs and alternate glyph forms)
ss02: Capital Heights: 209 (For glyphs with multiple height-variants)
ss03: Mid Heights: 209 (For glyphs with multiple height-variants)
ss04: Lower Heights: 209 (For glyphs with multiple height-variants)
ss05: Combining Capital Heights: 100 (For combining marks placed above capital letters and ascenders)
ss06: Combining Mid Heights: 100 (For combining marks placed between the x-height and cap-height)
ss07: Combining Lower Heights: 100 (For combining marks placed above the x-height)
ss08: Combining Below Heights: 96 (For combining marks placed below the baseline)
ss09: Combining Deep Under Heights: 100 (For combining marks placed below descenders)
ss15: Braille ASCII: 64 (For easier access to Braille Patterns)
Character Variants
cv01: Double Storey Forms: 40 (Toggles on the double storey 'a' and 'g' typical of non-script typefaces)
cv02: Alternate Capital M & W Forms: 26 (For use in advanced maths)
cv03: Diacritically Aligned Alternates: 38 (Switches to an alternate 'i' and 'j' where the dot harmonises with the diacritic dot)
cv04: Super Superscripts: 94 (For use in advanced maths)
cv05: Sub Superscripts: 94 (For use in advanced maths)
cv06: Superordinals: 94 (For use in advanced maths)
cv07: Subordinals: 94 (For use in advanced maths)
cv08: Super Denominators: 94 (For use in advanced maths)
cv09: Sub Denominators: 94 (For use in advanced maths)
cv10: Super Subscripts: 94 (For use in advanced maths)
cv11: Sub Subscripts: 94 (For use in advanced maths)
cv13: Combining Stylistic Alternates: 97 (For stylistic variants where the alternate is a combining form, heavily used for Musical Symbols
to place musical symbols on the standard five-line musical staff. Other height variants are available via the Music Scribe Stylistic Set,
where the standard character for a musical symbol followed by a number and two periods will map to a relevant variant.
For symbols that have one variant per staff, i.e. barlines, these can also be accessed by the Combining Heights Stylistic Sets.
This allows for quickly moving from one staff type to another as the note positions remain constant. This can also be done toggle ledger lines for.
to notes that are inside, say a five-line staff but outside a three-line staff.)
cv15: Smart Quotes: 4
(Toggles a feature to conditionally convert quotation marks to primes and double primes when used after numbers. This feature can be safely left on.)
cv16: Smart Quote Correction: 11
(Smart Quotes is when typewriter quotes or straight quotes, which for historical reasons are still directly input from the keyboard,
are automatically converted to typographic quote or curly quotes. This sometimes goes wrong, as the wrong direction for the
typographic quotes is picked. This feature allows for a manual override of Smart Quotes and also includes shortcut combinations
for more obscure primes and reversed primes which is to be turned on as needed to avoid inadvertantly triggering replacements.)
cv22: Leader Glyphs: 36 (Used for Table of Contents and for section dividers)
cv23: Overlines: 78 (Precomposed overline variants to ensure support for overlines when not implemented by software)
and as use of combining marks does not make for a proper fit when a typeface is not a monospaced typeface)
cv97: Analytical Engine: 531 (Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine wasnever built but remains very influential for steampunk)
cv98: Jacquard Loom Code: 249 (A Loom code, deemed important in both the history of textiles but of computing)
cv99: 1728 Falcon Loom Code: 18 (An early Loom code, significant as part of a turning point in the history of industrialisation)
