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Ordsall is a simple monospace OpenType font. The latest version is v0.1.0. I will probably revise it to add more characters in the future.

I created it in 1992 for Avalot, as TTSMALL.FNT. The OpenType version is identical, except that:

• the corners of each glyph are rounded off;
• the font uses Unicode codepoints, rather than IBM 437;
• a few glyphs were removed which were useful in 1993, but not now;
• a null (fallback) character has been added;
• the positions of quote marks have been tidied up, with new quote marks added as necessary;
• a vertical bar character has been added, in the place left by the broken bar character.

Ordsall is distributed under the terms of the SIL Open Font Licence, version 1.1.

Building

You will need imagemagick and fontforge.

Then just run make. This will build both the .otf file, and an .sfd file for editing in Fontforge.

Editing

Each .svg file in grids/ contains an 8×10 grid of squares. Dark squares are part of the glyph, and light squares are not. Light squares can be any light colour. By default, they alternate between yellow and blue to aid the eye.

If the first part of a filename is a valid hex number, then that is the codepoint of the glyph. Otherwise it gets used as the mapping name of the character— for example, with null.svg.

Samples

The name

Ordsall is an area of Salford, Lancashire, in England. It's pronounced /ɒdsəl/.

Revision history

• v0.1.0: Initial release.

Contact

Marnanel Thurman, marnanel@marnanel.org.

You can make a change request on gitlab. You can always find the most recent version at https://marnanel.org/projects/ordsall/.