Mona Font is both a
Japanese
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* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
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proportional pixel
font
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For instance, the typeface Bauer Bodoni (shown in the figure) includes fonts " Roman" (or "regul ...
for the
X Window System
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, derived from the Shinonome raster font family, and a
TrueType
TrueType is an Computer font#Outline fonts, outline font standardization, standard developed by Apple Inc., Apple in the late 1980s as a competitor to Adobe Inc., Adobe's PostScript fonts#Type 1, Type 1 fonts used in PostScript. It has become the ...
font.
It aims to represent
Shift JIS art
Shift_JIS art is artwork created from characters in the Shift JIS character set, a superset of the ASCII encoding standard intended for Japanese usage. Shift_JIS art has become popular on web-based bulletin boards, notably 2channel, and has ...
graphics properly, almost all of which require the MS PGothic font. Mona is named after
Mona, a character-based mascot of
2channel
, also known as 2ch, Channel 2, and sometimes retrospectively as 2ch.net, was an anonymous Japanese textboard founded in 1999 by Hiroyuki Nishimura. Described in 2007 as "Japan's most popular online community", the site had a level of influe ...
.
Mona uses glyphs from Shinonome (東雲) version 0.9.9 (Gothic) for embedded bitmaps. In version 2.30-pre, it incorporated outlines from Kochi-Gothic. However, it was changed to Kochi-substitute in 2.30-pre2 after discovering that
Kochi font
Kochi (東風フォント) was a font development project to build free replacements of proprietary fonts such as MS Gothic or MS Mincho, developed by Yasuyuki Furukawa (古川 泰之). The project consisted of the Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho f ...
violates copyright. After this, the glyphs in Mona resemble those in MS PGothic.
Mona supports the following code pages: 1252 (Latin 1), 1250 (Latin 2: East Europe), 1251 (
Cyrillic
The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Ea ...
), 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 the Mona Font source package, which consists of a subset of glyphs found in Mona. The OpenType layout table supports standard ligatures in the default language. When the font is viewed under Windows Font Viewer, a horizontal stroke overlays the glyph.
mona-outline supports the following code pages: 932 (JIS/Japan), 437 (US).
IPA monafont
IPA monafont is an extension of ,
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The IPA monafont family supports the 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 is a TrueType font and the 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 ...
, while sub-glyphs for these characters are repositioned and rescaled. Similar to the MS Gothic and MS Mincho font families, its reverse solidus glyph uses a yen sign instead of a backslash. A similar non-standard substitution can be found in the Gulim and Dotum font families.
Font statistics
Note: Some glyphs representing non-whitespace characters are blank.
See also
* List of CJK fonts
This is a list of notable CJK fonts (computer fonts with a large range of CJK characters, Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters). These fonts are primarily sorted by their typeface, the main classes being "with serif", "without serif" and "script". ...
References
External links
Mona Font
at SourceForge
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IPA monafont
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2channel
CJK typefaces