Andrew West

@babelstone
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Developer of BabelPad and BabelMap. Maintainer of BabelStone Han and Tangut Yinchuan fonts.
Websitehttps://www.babelstone.co.uk
BabelStone Flags font updated with the Refugee Nation flag https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Flags.html
BabelStone Fonts : BabelStone Flags

Beta versions of BabelPad and BabelMap supporting Unicode version 17.0 beta (due for release 9 September 2035) are now available to download from https://babelstone.co.uk/Software/Beta.html
BabelStone : BabelPad and BabelMap Beta Builds

BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor application for Windows

With the help of @jlhwung I am now making the pre-release versions of BabelStone Han continuously available in ufo and ttf format on GitHub https://github.com/babelstone/babelstonehan-ufo
GitHub - babelstone/babelstonehan-ufo

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GitHub

Beta version of BabelStone Han for Unicode 17.0 (incorporating CJK Ext. J), experimentally divided into three separate fonts (BMP, SIP, TIP) because they exceed the 64k glyph limit in the font standard. I may combine the SIP and TIP fonts in the final release, feedback welcome!

https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html#Beta

BabelStone Fonts : BabelStone Han

BabelStone Han is a free Unicode CJK font with over 60,000 Han characters (hanzi, kanji, hanja)

BabelStone Han PUA v. 1.460 released on 2025-01-01. Now includes 5,937 unencoded CJK ideographs and components. https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html
BabelStone Fonts : BabelStone Han PUA

BabelStone Han v. 16.0.3 released on 2025-01-01. This is the last release in a single font format as it has hit the ridiculous 64k glyph limit. The next release will add 3,000+ characters, including all China, UK and UTC characters in CJK Extension J. https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.html
BabelStone Fonts : BabelStone Han

BabelStone Han is a free Unicode CJK font with over 60,000 Han characters (hanzi, kanji, hanja)

My local yew tree, growing on the ruins of Waverley Abbey, has won the UK Tree of the Year competion for 2022. This is a photo of the tree I took last month. https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/tree-of-the-year/