# Gallant Font This is the Gallant font, as used by the Sun Microsystems SPARCstation console, extended with glyphs for many Unicode blocks. It is a raster font with a 22x12 pixel character cell, descent 5 and ascent 17. The starting point was the `gallant.hex` file as found on FreeBSD 14, which contained 502 glyphs at the time. This project currently provides more than 4000 glyphs. Major additions: * Greek * Cyrillic * International Phonetic Association Extensions * Extended Latin characters * Zapf Dingbats * Tons of arrows * Tons of mathematical symbols * Pixel-perfect box drawing * Currency symbols * More punctuation * Just enough Katakana to say コンニチハ * Powerline glyphs in the *Private Use Area* at U+e0a0 I have tried hard to keep the look of the font for Greek and Cyrillic glyphs, but not for symbols like arrows and mathematical operators where it makes no sense. Please let me know where I messed up (I can only barely read and write Greek, and hardly any Cyrillic and no Japanese at all). I used the documents of *The Unicode Standard, Version 16.0* as guidance. See [Unicode.org](https://home.unicode.org/) for more on Unicode. ## Unicode Support In the following table's Status column, *Complete* means all glyphs are present, *Partial* means at least one glyph is present, *TODO* means none are present. |Block |Name |Status | |---------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------| |U+0000 - U+007F|[Basic Latin](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf) |Complete | |U+0080 - U+00FF|[Latin-1 Supplement](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf) |Complete | |U+0100 - U+017F|[Latin Extended-A](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0100.pdf) |Complete | |U+0180 - U+024F|[Latin Extended-B](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0180.pdf) |Complete | |U+0250 - U+02AF|[IPA Extensions](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0250.pdf) |Complete | |U+02B0 - U+02FF|[Spacing Modifier Letters](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U02B0.pdf) |Complete | |U+0300 - U+036F|[Combining Diacritical Marks](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0300.pdf) |Complete | |U+0370 - U+03FF|[Greek and Coptic](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf) |Complete | |U+0400 - U+04FF|[Cyrillic](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf) |Complete | |U+0500 - U+052F|[Cyrillic Supplement](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0500.pdf) |TODO | |U+0530 - U+1cff|[...Many foreign alphabets...](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0530.pdf) |TODO | |U+1D00 - U+1D7F|[Phonetic Extensions](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D00.pdf) |TODO | |U+1D80 - U+1DBF|[Phonetic Extensions Supplement](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D80.pdf) |TODO | |U+1DC0 - U+1DFF|[Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1DC0.pdf) |TODO | |U+1E00 - U+1EFF|[Latin Extended Additional](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1E00.pdf) |Complete | |U+1F00 - U+1FFF|[Greek Extended](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F00.pdf) |Partial | |U+2000 - U+206F|[General Punctuation](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2000.pdf) |Complete | |U+2070 - U+209F|[Superscripts and Subscripts](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2070.pdf) |Complete | |U+20A0 - U+20CF|[Currency Symbols](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20A0.pdf) |Complete | |U+20D0 - U+20FF|[Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20D0.pdf)|Partial | |U+2100 - U+214F|[Letterlike Symbols](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf) |Partial | |U+2150 - U+218F|[Number Forms](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2150.pdf) |TODO | |U+2190 - U+21FF|[Arrows](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2190.pdf) |Complete | |U+2200 - U+22FF|[Mathematical Operators](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2200.pdf) |Complete | |U+2300 - U+23FF|[Miscellaneous Technical](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2300.pdf) |Complete | |U+2400 - U+243F|[Control Pictures](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2400.pdf) |Complete | |U+2440 - U+245F|[Optical Character Recognition](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2440.pdf) |Complete | |U+2460 - U+24FF|[Enclosed Alphanumerics](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2460.pdf) |TODO | |U+2500 - U+257F|[Box Drawing](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2500.pdf) |Complete | |U+2580 - U+259F|[Block Elements](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2580.pdf) |Complete | |U+25A0 - U+25FF|[Geometric Shapes](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U25A0.pdf) |Complete | |U+2600 - U+26FF|[Miscellaneous Symbols](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2600.pdf) |Partial | |U+2700 - U+27BF|[Dingbats](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf) |Complete | |U+27C0 - U+27EF|[Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U27C0.pdf) |Complete | |U+27F0 - U+27FF|[Supplemental Arrows-A](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U27F0.pdf) |Complete | |U+2800 - U+28FF|[Braille Patterns](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2800.pdf) |Complete | |U+2900 - U+297F|[Supplemental Arrows-B](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2900.pdf) |Complete | |U+2980 - U+29FF|[Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2980.pdf) |Complete | |U+2A00 - U+2AFF|[Supplemental Mathematical Operators](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2A00.pdf) |TODO | |U+2B00 - U+2BFF|[Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2B00.pdf) |Partial | |U+2C00 - U+2C5F|[Glagolitic](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2C00.pdf) |TODO | |U+2C60 - U+2C7F|[Latin Extended-C](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2C60.pdf) |TODO | |U+2C80 - U+A6FF|[...Many foreign alphabets...](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2C80.pdf) |TODO | |U+30A0 - U+30FF|[Katakana](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U30A0.pdf) |Partial | |U+3100 - U+A6FF|[...Many foreign alphabets...](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2C80.pdf) |TODO | |U+A700 - U+A71F|[Modifier Tone Letters](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA700.pdf) |TODO | |U+A720 - U+A7FF|[Latin Extended-D](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA720.pdf) |TODO | |U+A800 - U+AB2F|[...Many foreign alphabets...](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA800.pdf) |TODO | |U+AB30 - U+AB6F|[Latin Extended-E](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UAB30.pdf) |TODO | |U+AB70 - U+FAFF|[...Many foreign alphabets...](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UAB70.pdf) |TODO | |U+FB00 - U+FB4F|[Alphabetic Presentation Forms](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFB00.pdf) |Partial | |U+FB50 - U+FFEF|[...Many foreign alphabets...](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFB50.pdf) |TODO | |U+FFF0 - U+FFFF|[Specials](https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFFF0.pdf) |Partial | Codepoints >= U+10000 can be part of a BDF file, but cannot be used by core X11 since it internally restricts glyph encoding numbers to 16 bit. (This does not apply to **Xft** rendered fonts). The FreeBSD [vt(4)](https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vt&apropos=0&sektion=4) driver would work with fine with the full codepoint range. ## How do I load/use this font? ### As an X11 Raster Font, e.g. for Xterm(1) Install the BDF file where X11 looks for fonts. The following example uses `$HOME/.fonts` as the font directory. ``` $ mkdir -p $HOME/.fonts $ cp gallant.bfd $HOME/.fonts $ cd $HOME/.fonts $ mkfontdir $ xset fp+ $HOME/.fonts $ xset fp rehash $ xterm -fa '' -fn "-sun-gallant-medium-r-normal-*-22-*-*-*-*-80-*-*" ``` ### FreeBSD Console ``` vidcontrol -f /path/to/gallant.fnt ``` You may also drop the font files into directory `/usr/share/vt/fonts` and add `allscreens_flags="-f gallant"` to your `/etc/rc.conf`. This way all console terminals use the font after boot. ## Remarks * Codepoints 0 through 31 slightly differ from the Unicode standard. They were left unmodified to not change their intended use on SPARC hardware. ## TODO * Describe how to contribute * Describe the helper programs