Fonts

Terasology uses Google's Noto Font for most text rendering operations. The font was chosen, because:

• The font is open source (SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1)
• Supports many languages
• Supports symbols through Noto Sans Symbols
• Supports emoji - currently not used though
• Supports italic and bold font styles
• Looks good

The font is sampled at different sizes and converted into 2D textures using BMFont 1.14 beta. The following Unicode groups are used:

• Latin + Latin Supplement (0000)
• Latin Extended A and B (0100)
• IPA Extensions (0250) and Spacing Modifier Letters - In sum, everything in [0001-0300]
• Greek, Coptic, Cyrillic+Supplement (0370-0530)
• Greek Extended (1F00)
• Subscripts, superscripts (2070)
• Currency Symbols (20A0)
• Arrows (2190)
• Mathematical Operators (2200)
• Box Drawings (2500)
• Geometric Shapes (25A0)
• Miscellaneous Symbols (2600)

These characters are present in the regular/bold/italic/large font textures.

For Japanese language support, the Hiragana and Katakana font glyphs have been added from the corresponding font (CJK-jp).

• CJK Symbols and Punctuation (3000)
• Hiragana (3040)
• Katakana (30A0)

On top of that, the regular and regular large font textures support the following Unicode characters from the corresponding Symbols font:

• Enclosed Alphanumerics (only 2460-2474 and 24B6-24EB)
• Dingbats (2700)

The individual character codes can be used from Java code through char constants in the classes in the org.terasology.unicode package. A similar constant collection has been made by the Java UniCode Constants (UCC) package by CodeCop.

The fnt files have been manually merged to get the symbols characters into the regular font. The raw files, BMFont installation files, etc. can be found in TeraMisc:

https://github.com/MovingBlocks/TeraMisc/tree/master/fonts

Combined Unicode characters (larger than FFFF) are not supported.