Michel Mariani
Thanks to @jlhwung, the so beautifully crafted 'BabelStone Han' font by Andrew West (魏安), is alive and well!
The latest version 17.0.0, made of 'BabelStoneHanBasic.ttf' and 'BabelStoneHanExtra.ttf', is available from:
🔗 https://github.com/babelstone/babelstonehan-ufo/releases/latest
Unicode 17.0 introduces five new CJK Unified Ideographs related to Chinese personal pronouns, four of them having been proposed by Andrew West (BabelStone):
« The other Chinese pronoun coming to Unicode v. 17.0 next year, in addition to ⿰㐅也 (3p gender-neutral, ⿰男也 (3p explicitly male), ⿱妳心 ( f. equivalent of 您), ⿱我心 (Taiwanese 1p plural), is ⿱她心 (f. equivalent to 怹) »
🔗 https://bsky.app/profile/babelstone.co.uk/post/3lbrxowqt7k24
Martin de la IglesiaIs #babelstone down? Since yesterday, https://www.babelstone.co.uk/ returns a 'connection failed' error. Does anyone know what's going on there? @babelstone ?
New in the CJK Variations utility of Unicopedia Sinica:
- Support for the latest Ideographic Variation Database (IVD 2025), adding the new CAAPH Collection.
- Support for the updated BabelStone Collection (unregistered), based on the latest BabelStone Han font (v17.0.0 BETA), by Andrew C. West (魏安), 1960-2025 RIP (安息吧).
🔗 https://https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica
#Unicopedia #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #IdeographicVariationDatabase #IVD #CAAPH #BabelStone
Precious Seals of the Qing Dynasty 清代寶璽 — a set of one hundred postcards published by the Palace Museum in 1932 which show the Chinese and Manchu inscriptions on the faces of one hundred Qing dynasty imperial seals.
(Andrew West 魏安 - BabelStone)
The latest version of the free BabelStone Han font (v.16.0.2), by Andrew West (魏安), has just been released. It includes more than 60,000 CJK unified ideographs, and supports a provisional set of 2,452 ideographic variation sequences (IVS) for 1,196 characters.
🔗 https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html
🔗 https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/BSH_IVS.html
🪑Dr Rockstar ♫I agree it's nice to have a reasonably accessible resource (e.g. fontawesome; material from google) that provides easy to use glyph icons as fonts.
For the longest time, I was steadfast in wanting to use a #standards based solution like
Unicode Misc Symbols.
https://whatsonyourbrain.com/adb/unicode_misc_symbols.phtml
In fact, since I last studied it with intent, there are so many reasonably useful unicode symbols and glyphs easily accessible via corresponding #NCR in most languages relevant to "web" or / mobile app UI's.
I like options. But, I like to have standardized modular code.
Beautifully crafted BabelStone Han font, by Andrew West 魏安
#BabelStone Han v. 15.1.3 is a free #Unicode #CJK #font with over 57,000 Han characters (#hanzi, #kanji, #hanja), and 62,061 Unicode characters in total. It is a Song/Ming style (宋体/明體) font, with glyphs modelled on the official character forms used in the People's Republic of China, and is primarily intended for writing Modern Standard #Chinese, Classical Chinese, and various Sinitic languages and dialects.
