The Monotty font project

Monospaced fonts for terminals with CTL support

Monotty is shortening for for two words: Monospaced and TTY (Teletype, Terminal).

Example of output

These fonts are mainly intended for experiments with displaying CTL scripts in terminal emulators supporting the character slicing. (See the new SGR attribute). This font has not been finalized to the level of practical use, and so far it contains some inaccuracies that are not critical for the experiments.

Writing systems

• Brahmic scripts
  • Devanagari <dev2>
    • Nepali <NEP >
    • Marathi <MAR >
  • Bengali <bng2>
  • Gujarati <gjr2>

Specification

• Font type: outline (automatic generation from strokes, stroke-based representation, expresses each glyph as a set of stems)
• Weight: configurable stroke width
• Em size: 2000
• Сharacter width: monospaced, exactly 1/2em
• Ascent: 1400
• Descent: 600

Build

The font binaries are not directly part of this repository, as it only contains source files; however, the binaries are directly built from the .sfd files. This requires the FontForge Monotty Edition.

Building the font (e.g. generate the .ttf file) from source

BUILD.md

Download

• Devanagari <dev2>: monotty-dev2.ttf
• Bengali <bng2>: N/A
• Gujarati <gjr2>: N/A