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Quikscript Glyph List

Version 1.0

Most existing Quikscript fonts lack consistency in the characters they include and their codepoint allocations. This means that texts may become garbled after changing fonts, and different fonts may require different keystrokes to type the same characters (see Typing for a list of character mappings in use). Important characters may be missing entirely. These problems will lead to confusion and frustration in the user.

Taking inspiration from industry standards such as the Windows Glyph List and Adobe Latin, I have compiled the following list of glyphs which I believe should be considered for inclusion in every Quikscript font. It is built upon Nathan Sharfi's Quikscript block proposal for the ConScript Unicode Registry. The list is divided into multiple levels:

Level 0: Quikscript characters only. Most existing fonts meet merely this level; some even fail to.

Level I (Required): glyphs essential for typesetting a simple Quikscript text in one font.

Level II (Recommended): additional glyphs which help to make the font more useful and user-friendly.

Level III (Optional): suggestions for extra glyphs which may be needed in niche applications.

The list is primarily focussed on text-oriented typefaces, which tend to require a wider character repertoire. For display or novelty faces, Level I or even Level 0 would probably be fine.

There is also a spreadsheet version of this table available for download.

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Unicode Glyph Name Rationale
0020   SPACE Essential glyphs for English1
0021 ! EXCLAMATION MARK
0022 " QUOTATION MARK
0023 # NUMBER SIGN Available on English keyboards2
0024 $ DOLLAR SIGN Currency symbol for USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand etc.
0025 % PERCENT SIGN Available on English keyboards
0026 & AMPERSAND
0027 ' APOSTROPHE Essential glyphs for English
0028 ( LEFT PARENTHESIS Available on English keyboards
0029 ) RIGHT PARENTHESIS
002A * ASTERISK
002B + PLUS SIGN
002C , COMMA Essential glyphs for English
002D - HYPHEN-MINUS
002E . FULL STOP
002F / SOLIDUS
0030 0 DIGIT ZERO
0031 1 DIGIT ONE
0032 2 DIGIT TWO
0033 3 DIGIT THREE
0034 4 DIGIT FOUR
0035 5 DIGIT FIVE
0036 6 DIGIT SIX
0037 7 DIGIT SEVEN
0038 8 DIGIT EIGHT
0039 9 DIGIT NINE
003A : COLON
003B ; SEMICOLON
003C < LESS-THAN SIGN Available on English keyboards
003D = EQUALS SIGN
003E > GREATER-THAN SIGN
003F ? QUESTION MARK Essential glyphs for English
0040 @ COMMERCIAL AT Available on English keyboards
0041 A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A Conventional text may be required for names, addresses, etc.3
0042 B LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
0043 C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
0044 D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D
0045 E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
0046 F LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
0047 G LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
0048 H LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
0049 I LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
004A J LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
004B K LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K
004C L LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
004D M LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
004E N LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N
004F O LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O
0050 P LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
0051 Q LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
0052 R LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
0053 S LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S
0054 T LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
0055 U LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
0056 V LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
0057 W LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
0058 X LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X
0059 Y LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
005A Z LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
005B [ LEFT SQUARE BRACKET Available on English keyboards
005C \ REVERSE SOLIDUS
005D ] RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET
005E ^ CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
005F _ LOW LINE
0060 ` GRAVE ACCENT
0061 a LATIN SMALL LETTER A Conventional text may be required for names, addresses, etc.3
0062 b LATIN SMALL LETTER B
0063 c LATIN SMALL LETTER C
0064 d LATIN SMALL LETTER D
0065 e LATIN SMALL LETTER E
0066 f LATIN SMALL LETTER F
0067 g LATIN SMALL LETTER G
0068 h LATIN SMALL LETTER H
0069 i LATIN SMALL LETTER I
006A j LATIN SMALL LETTER J
006B k LATIN SMALL LETTER K
006C l LATIN SMALL LETTER L
006D m LATIN SMALL LETTER M
006E n LATIN SMALL LETTER N
006F o LATIN SMALL LETTER O
0070 p LATIN SMALL LETTER P
0071 q LATIN SMALL LETTER Q
0072 r LATIN SMALL LETTER R
0073 s LATIN SMALL LETTER S
0074 t LATIN SMALL LETTER T
0075 u LATIN SMALL LETTER U
0076 v LATIN SMALL LETTER V
0077 w LATIN SMALL LETTER W
0078 x LATIN SMALL LETTER X
0079 y LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
007A z LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
007B { LEFT CURLY BRACKET Available on English keyboards
007C | VERTICAL LINE
007D } RIGHT CURLY BRACKET
007E ~ TILDE
00A0   NO-BREAK SPACE Used to separate words that must appear on the same line for clarity
00AD ­ SOFT HYPHEN Invisible mark that allows hyphenated breaks
00A2 ¢ CENT SIGN Currency symbol for the USA4
00A3 £ POUND SIGN Currency symbol for the UK
00A4 ¤ CURRENCY SIGN Commonly part of standard glyph lists
00A6 ¦ BROKEN BAR Available on English keyboards
00A7 § SECTION SIGN Necessary for professional typography
00A9 © COPYRIGHT SIGN Used in copyright statements, formerly essential in the USA
00AC ¬ NOT SIGN Available on English keyboards
00AE ® REGISTERED SIGN Denotes registered trademarks
00B0 ° DEGREE SIGN Common and useful symbols
00B1 ± PLUS-MINUS SIGN
00B2 ² SUPERSCRIPT TWO Represents squared and cubed numbers5
00B3 ³ SUPERSCRIPT THREE
00B5 µ MICRO SIGN Symbol for SI prefix
00B6 PILCROW SIGN Used in legal texts and word processors
00B7 · MIDDLE DOT Used to mark proper names in Quikscript
00B9 ¹ SUPERSCRIPT ONE Commonly part of standard glyph lists5
00BC ¼ VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
00BD ½ VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
00BE ¾ VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
00D7 × MULTIPLICATION SIGN Used in mathematics
00E6 æ LATIN SMALL LETTER AE International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for English
00F0 ð LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH
00F7 ÷ DIVISION SIGN Used in mathematics
014B ŋ LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG IPA for English
0251 ɑ LATIN SMALL LETTER ALPHA
0252 ɒ LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED ALPHA
0254 ɔ LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O
0259 ə LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
025B ɛ LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E
025C ɜ LATIN SMALL LETTER REVERSED OPEN E
0261 ɡ LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G
026A ɪ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I
0279 ɹ LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R
0283 ʃ LATIN SMALL LETTER ESH
028A ʊ LATIN SMALL LETTER UPSILON
028C ʌ LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V
0292 ʒ LATIN SMALL LETTER EZH
0294 ʔ LATIN LETTER GLOTTAL STOP
02C8 ˈ MODIFIER LETTER VERTICAL LINE
02CC ˌ MODIFIER LETTER LOW VERTICAL LINE
02D0 ː MODIFIER LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON
030D ̍ COMBINING VERTICAL LINE ABOVE May be used with Junior Quikscript to denote stressed syllables
03B8 θ GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA IPA for English
03C0 π GREEK SMALL LETTER PI Used in mathematics
2000   EN QUAD Necessary for professional typography
2001   EM QUAD
2002   EN SPACE
2003   EM SPACE
2004   THREE-PER-EM SPACE
2005   FOUR-PER-EM SPACE
2006   SIX-PER-EM SPACE
2007   FIGURE SPACE
2008   PUNCTUATION SPACE
2009   THIN SPACE
200A   HAIR SPACE
200B ​ ZERO WIDTH SPACE
200C ‌ ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER Breaks up a sequence of characters to prevent automatic ligation
200D ‍ ZERO WIDTH JOINER Commonly part of standard glyph lists
2010 ‐ HYPHEN Necessary for professional typography
2011 ‑ NON-BREAKING HYPHEN Hyphenates words that must appear on the same line for clarity
2012 ‒ FIGURE DASH Dash specifying a range of numbers
2013 – EN DASH Common English punctuation
2014 — EM DASH
2015 ― HORIZONTAL BAR Commonly part of standard glyph lists
2018 ‘ LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK Essential glyphs for English
2019 ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
201C “ LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
201D ” RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
2020 † DAGGER Denotes footnotes
2021 ‡ DOUBLE DAGGER
2022 • BULLET Necessary for professional typography
2026 … HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
2032 ′ PRIME Denotes minutes and seconds, feet and inches or first and second derivatives
2033 ″ DOUBLE PRIME
2044 ⁄ FRACTION SLASH Sometimes used to construct vulgar fractions5
2070 ⁰ SUPERSCRIPT ZERO
2074 ⁴ SUPERSCRIPT FOUR
2075 ⁵ SUPERSCRIPT FIVE
2076 ⁶ SUPERSCRIPT SIX
2077 ⁷ SUPERSCRIPT SEVEN
2078 ⁸ SUPERSCRIPT EIGHT
2079 ⁹ SUPERSCRIPT NINE
2080 ₀ SUBSCRIPT ZERO
2081 ₁ SUBSCRIPT ONE
2082 ₂ SUBSCRIPT TWO
2083 ₃ SUBSCRIPT THREE
2084 ₄ SUBSCRIPT FOUR
2085 ₅ SUBSCRIPT FIVE
2086 ₆ SUBSCRIPT SIX
2087 ₇ SUBSCRIPT SEVEN
2088 ₈ SUBSCRIPT EIGHT
2089 ₉ SUBSCRIPT NINE
20AC € EURO SIGN Currency symbol for Ireland
2105 ℅ CARE OF Used in postal addresses
2113 ℓ SCRIPT SMALL L Sometimes used as a symbol for the litre
2116 № NUMERO SIGN Necessary for professional typography
2117 ℗ SOUND RECORDING COPYRIGHT Used on commercial music packaging etc.
2120 ℠ SERVICE MARK Rare companion to the trademark sign
2122 ™ TRADE MARK SIGN Necessary for professional typography
2126 Ω OHM SIGN Symbol for SI unit (Greek capital Omega may be preferred)
212E ℮ ESTIMATED SYMBOL Used on European packaging
2153 ⅓ VULGAR FRACTION ONE THIRD Commonly part of standard glyph lists5
2154 ⅔ VULGAR FRACTION TWO THIRDS
215B ⅛ VULGAR FRACTION ONE EIGHTH
215C ⅜ VULGAR FRACTION THREE EIGHTHS
215D ⅝ VULGAR FRACTION FIVE EIGHTHS
215E ⅞ VULGAR FRACTION SEVEN EIGHTHS
2190 ← LEFTWARDS ARROW Useful for signage and user interfaces
2191 ↑ UPWARDS ARROW
2192 → RIGHTWARDS ARROW
2193 ↓ DOWNWARDS ARROW
2196 ↖︎ NORTH WEST ARROW
2197 ↗︎ NORTH EAST ARROW
2198 ↘︎ SOUTH EAST ARROW
2199 ↙︎ SOUTH WEST ARROW
2202 ∂ PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL Used in mathematics
2206 ∆ INCREMENT
220F ∏ N-ARY PRODUCT
2211 ∑ N-ARY SUMMATION
2212 − MINUS SIGN
2215 ∕ DIVISION SLASH
2219 ∙ BULLET OPERATOR
221A √ SQUARE ROOT
221E ∞ INFINITY
222B ∫ INTEGRAL
2248 ≈ ALMOST EQUAL TO
2260 ≠ NOT EQUAL TO
2264 ≤ LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO
2265 ≥ GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO
2329 〈 LEFT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET Denotes orthography in linguistic texts
232A 〉 RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE BRACKET
25A0 ■ BLACK SQUARE Denotes the end of an article in some magazines
25A1 □ WHITE SQUARE
25B2 ▲ BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE May be used in user interfaces etc.
25B6 ▶︎ BLACK RIGHT-POINTING TRIANGLE
25BC ▼ BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE
25C0 ◀︎ BLACK LEFT-POINTING TRIANGLE
25CA ◊ LOZENGE Commonly part of standard glyph lists
266A ♪ EIGHTH NOTE Used in subtitles/closed captions
266B ♫ BEAMED EIGHTH NOTES
E650 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER PIPE The Quikscript characters themselves, located in the Unicode Private Use area for compatibility with other scripts
E651 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER BOB
E652 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER TUT
E653 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER DEED
E654 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER KICK
E655 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER GIG
E656 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER THOTH
E657 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER THITHER
E658 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER FIFE
E659 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER VALVE
E65A QUIKSCRIPT LETTER SIS
E65B QUIKSCRIPT LETTER ZOOS
E65C QUIKSCRIPT LETTER SHUSH
E65D QUIKSCRIPT LETTER ZHIVAGO
E65E QUIKSCRIPT LETTER CHURCH
E65F QUIKSCRIPT LETTER JUDGE
E660 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER YO-YO
E661 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER WIN-WIN
E662 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER HA-HA
E663 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER WHITEWHEAT
E664 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER INKLING
E665 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER MIME
E666 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER NUN
E667 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER LOLL
E668 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER ROAR
E669 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER LOCH
E66A QUIKSCRIPT LETTER LLAN
E66B QUIKSCRIPT LETTER AXE
E66C QUIKSCRIPT LETTER EXAM
E66E QUIKSCRIPT LEFT ANGLED PARENTHESIS
E66F QUIKSCRIPT RIGHT ANGLED PARENTHESIS
E670 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER IF
E671 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER EAT
E672 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER ET
E673 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER AGE
E674 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER ASH
E675 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER ICE
E676 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER AH
E677 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER AWL
E678 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER ON
E679 QUIKSCRIPT LETTER OIL
E67A QUIKSCRIPT LETTER ADO
E67B QUIKSCRIPT LETTER OUT
E67C QUIKSCRIPT LETTER OAK
E67D QUIKSCRIPT LETTER WOOL
E67E QUIKSCRIPT LETTER OOZE

Additionally: every font should contain a glyph, with no assigned Unicode codepoint, called “.notdef”. This is displayed in place of any characters missing from the font (i.e. not defined) and usually takes the form of a rectangular box, sometimes with a question mark or cross.

Notes

  1. These essential glyphs should be available in a matching style, without needing to switch fonts.
  2. A polished, user-friendly font should have the complete set of characters accessible on a standard keyboard.
  3. It is often preferable to use a different typeface for different scripts, to provide greater contrast in sentences.
  4. Small “c” is the preferred cent symbol in Australia and New Zealand.
  5. Although Unicode defines these characters, using OpenType features can be used to achieve the same effect.