Fixedsys Excelsior
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| Typeface | Fixedsys Excelsior 3.01 |
|---|---|
| Category | Almost monospace |
| Classifications | Sans-serif |
| Designer(s) | Darien Gavin Valentine |
Fixedsys Excelsior is an unofficial pan-Unicode extension of the popular Microsoft font Fixedsys. The current version available now is 3.01.
In addition to the basic Latin alphabet supported by the original Fixedsys, this font supports Arabic alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet, Runic alphabet, IPA, etc., but not CJK (a complete listing of coverage can be seen below). It also contains narrow, serif, reverse, italic, cursive, and reversed (mirror image) forms of Fixedsys stored in its Private Use Area. The font is fitted entirely into the Basic Multilingual Plane, and as such, some characters with Unicode support in other planes (such as the Gothic alphabet) are instead mapped into the PUA for greater accessibility. Overall, 5,992 glyphs are covered in the typeface.
Fixedsys Excelsior 2.00 worked on Macintosh also, but 3.01 doesn't.
Fixedsys Excelsior is free software and appears to have been released by its author into the public domain.
[edit] Supported Unicode ranges
| 00 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | A0 | B0 | C0 | D0 | E0 | F0 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000 | Basic Latin | Latin-1 Supplement | ||||||||||||||
| 0100 | Latin Extended-A | Latin Extended-B | ||||||||||||||
| 0200 | Lat.Ext-B cont'd | IPA Extensions | Spacing Modifier Letters | |||||||||||||
| 0300 | Combining Diacritical Marks | Greek and Coptic | ||||||||||||||
| 0400 | Cyrillic | |||||||||||||||
| 0500 | Cyrillic Supplement | Armenian | Hebrew | |||||||||||||
| 0600 | Arabic | |||||||||||||||
| 0700 | Syriac | N/A | Thaana | N'Ko | ||||||||||||
| 0800 | N/A | |||||||||||||||
| 0900 | Devanagari | Bengali | ||||||||||||||
| 0A00 | Gurmukhi | Gujarati | ||||||||||||||
| 0B00 | Oriya | Tamil | ||||||||||||||
| 0C00 | Telugu | Kannada | ||||||||||||||
| 0D00 | Malayam | Sinhala | ||||||||||||||
| 0E00 | Thai | Lao | ||||||||||||||
| 0F00 | Tibetan | |||||||||||||||
- Part of Myanmar (1000–109F): 1040–1049
- Georgian (10A0–10FF)
- Ethiopic (1200–137F)
- Ogham (1680–169F)
- Runic (16A0–16FF)
- Tai Le (1950–197F)
- Part of Phonetic Extensions (1D00–1D7F): 1D00–1D2F, etc.
- Latin Extended Additional (1E00–1EFF)
- Greek Extended (1F00–1FFF)
- General Punctuation (2000–206F)
- Part of Superscripts and Subscripts (2070–209F): 2070–208F
- Part of Currency Symbols (20A0–20CF): 20A0–20B6—Warning: Through U+20B1 to U+20B6, the glyphs are shifted next code point of the correct code point.
- Part of Letterlike Symbols (2100–214F)
- Part of Number Forms (2150–218F): Roman numerals (2160–2183)
- Part of Arrows (2190–21FF)
- Part of Mathematical Operators (2200–22FF)
- Part of Miscellaneous Technical (2300–23FF)
- Part of Control Pictures (2400–243F)
- Part of Optical Character Recognition (2440–245F): 2440–244A
- Part of Enclosed Alphanumerics (2460–24FF)
- Box Drawing (2500–257F)
- Part of Block Elements (2580–259F)
- Part of Geometric Shapes (25A0–25FF)
- Part of Miscellaneous Symbols (2600–26FF)
- Part of Dingbats (2700–27BF)
- Supplemental Arrows-A (27F0–27FF)
- Part of Braille Patterns (2800–28FF): 2800–283F
- Latin Extended-C (2C60–2C7F)
- Georgian Supplement (2D00–2D2F)
- Tifinagh (2D30–2D7F)
- Yijing Hexagram Symbols (4DC0–4DFF)
- Latin Extended-D (A720–A7FF)
- In Private Use Area (E000–F8FF), there is Tengwar, Gothic, Miscellaneous characters, narrow, serif, reverse, italic, cursive, and reversed form of Fixedsys.
- Part of Alphabetic Presentation Forms (FB00–FB4F)
- Part of Arabic Presentation Forms-A (FB50–FDFF)
- Part of Small Form Variants (FE50–FE6F)
- Arabic Presentation Forms-B (FE70–FEFF)
- Part of Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms (FF00–FFEF): Fullwidth numbers (FF10–FF19) and Fullwidth capitals (FF21–FF3A)—drawn as the small capitals
- Specials (FFF0–FFFF)
