A space-esque design made for a friend! The angular counters give this a simplified geometry which makes it easy to read despite its looks. Works well for small- or large-scale applications - chat, terminals, logos, and more. Supports Dutch, English, and Greek!

The original was cloned off and preserved elsewhere. The version you see here has centered glyphs.

Version 1.1

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A font designed and optimized for writing very small and dense math equations, especially those related to ESOSVM. This should make cramming equations onto a small canvas much easier.

I included A-Z and a-z so you can write with the font or use the letters to declare variable names. So it isn't just a "pure math" font like most other mathematics fonts I have seen around.

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DIAGRAMMING PIECES

These are still being drawn and tested. The sizes these have to be will depend on the sizes of all other glyphs, so these pieces will be made last.

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ANIMA OPERATORS

` - skein

@ - infH (infinitude of harmony)

# - infD (infinitude of dissonance)

_ - rskamacha

Ó - Palkyl's number

Ô - Marräd's number

Õ - Ehnetahinian void

Ö - Quanta/Phenom interface

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LILTS

& - aShift

* - kShift

Ø - Phlogistian

Ù - Quintessential

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PHENOMS

ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐ - quanta

Ñ - Marinanian constant

Ò - Dheenian constant

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Version History:

1.3: Added more symbols.

1.2: Added Dutch and German.

1.1: Q* were corrected.

1.0: Initial release.

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Font used for rAIn, shipboard AI of the RGS-1 Rainbow Loop. This will also likely be used in FLAK materials, as well.

A squareish and vaguely futuristic pixel design! It is not monospaced but still has a very "terminal" look about it.

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Original size: 5px (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

A font which looks like the emissions of a Marengi Broadbeam.

Original size: 15pt

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A font which has a spurless, sans-serif, pixelated polygonal look which is somewhat reminescent of fonts used in VHS technology.

A lot of applied science has gone and continues to go into this design. It's designed to remain legible on all media in all use conditions, provided that one uses the original size or a multiple thereof. Numerous technologies and mediums are being employed to realize this objective.

"Diaspora" is now being tested and refined for use with/on/against:
     • CRT, LCD & e-Ink screens
     • image formats & compressed imagery (GIF, JPG)
     • printers (inkjet, bubble jet, laserjet, & thermal)
     • analog video & multi-generational copies (VHS, Super 8)
     • digital video (AVI, MP4, MPEG, WEBM, WMV)
     • 3D and voxel models (Blender, MagicaVoxel, POV-Ray)
     • dynamic scaling hardware (game consoles and capture devices)
     • imagery plugins & filters, including image degraders
     • image scaling/interpolation hardware & software
     • image recognition hardware & software

These all have traits which degrade, distort, compress, glitch, or otherwise alter imagery in various ways. This design aims to minimize the loss of legibility from these effects and to attain the best scores possible in various forms of imagery analysis. So far, this has proved extremely useful, as it can remain fully legible even when extreme JPG or video compression are applied to it thousands of times.

A piece software I helped write, called the Marinan Imagery Deconstruction AI System (MIDAS), is being used on captured images of this font. The end objective is to realize the design which has the best all-around Marinan Interpretability Value (MIV) for all the tested platforms - the design which is considered by MIDAS to be the most legible in the most media under the broadest range of use conditions and quality levels.

MIDAS uses a set of considerations made with both humans and computers in mind, so a high MIV does not necessarily equal a better font - it just means one that the system thinks is easier to visually interpret. Note the use of the phrase "visually interpret" as opposed to "read". MIDAS tries to determine how well people and computers can tell what shapes are, not how much enjoyment they'll get from reading or how much strain they might undergo while doing it.

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VERSION HISTORY:

1.0.0 - initial release.

1.0.1 - More Latin support added.

1.0.2 - First batch of tests run.

1.0.3 - gjy5&ßẞ were improved, some glyphs added.

1.0.4 - Second batch of tests run. Space width reduced.

1.0.5 - Experimentally converted to a rounded spurless design, then converted back to a plain spurless after testing. A few new ligatures were added.

1.0.6 - Cyrillic and Greek enter development. Many of these letters must be altered to be distinct from their Latin counterparts.

1.0.7 - Some spacing values changed to increase internal consistency. More difficult tests are being devised. However, since only I seem interested in this type of work, this project is going on hiatus for some time.

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See also: AMFA, a font built with similar considerations in mind

Version 1.5: All permutations of E and F were refined and improved.

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A modernized, rounded, and truncated version of Marengi. This is made to be a good text editor/chat font. It has very few kerning pairs, so it should render fine in any software.

Ascenders are only allowed to be as tall as the uppercase/numerals, while descenders are allowed to go 2px below the line. This creates a natural line spacing that is readable and not too dense. (Diacritics break this rule, of course... darn them...)

Gone are the curved descenders/termini on letters like gjty. The simpler geometry makes this design more suited to speedreading than its predecessor. In fact, altering those four letters alone improves speedreading on this font by up to 14%!

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09JUN2019: I have been using this as my main IRC/chat font for some time now. Of all my chatfont designs, this has proven the easiest to read and use.

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MIV: 8.31

Original size: 6pt (use multiples of this size for pixel perfection)

How much detail can you get by expanding 3x4 to 3x5? Not a whole lot, as it turns out. Still, this is nice and readable.

Joketext font from ESOSLite. This is very similar to the original ESOS Lite Terminal, but turned 90 degrees counterclockwise.

This text prints in one or two ways: either as it displays here on-site or in a RTL columnar format where the body of text is rotated back 90 degrees clockwise. The latter is usually used for jokes about weeaboos; I play 100% Orange Juice and watch Katekyō Hitman Reborn!  so I pretty much am one.

A highly exclusive language used by people on Bysonce Island, Planet Ashr in my video game Endless Sea of Stars. This one is used for private documents and old government records, and its brother language Eudastiphos Hand is used for public court documents.

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Calystiphos Hand is much simpler than its brother language, despite looking much more complicated. Each glyph refers to highly specific concepts and so it is most used to record time-tested, factual information rather than stories or fiction. However, these glyphs can still be considered as runes, as each one is host to whole mysteriums of information and idiomatic knowledge which have been associated with it.

Bysoncians use a base-8 system of numeracy. 9 would thus be written as 81, 10 as 82, etc. There is no numeral 9.

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Calystiphos is the Ashrian god of siroccos. The simplest way to put it is to say that he represents the "yin" of the pantheon.

A written court language used by Ashrians on Bysonce Island, Planet Ashr in my video game Endless Sea of Stars. This one is used for public court documents, and its brother language Calystiphos Hand is used for private documents and old government records.

These glyphs could be considered a form of shorthand unto themselves, since each court stenographer has its own way of writing these down and its own way of abbreviating or embellishing them. Through knowledge of these glyphs, and their accompanying interpretation, one can surmise all of the important proceedings and notes.

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Common methods for stenographers to alter these glyphs involve:

- Adding/removing quadrants

- Crossing out one or more elements in colored ink

- Drawing connecting lines between points within one or more quadrants

- Inscribing shorthand or marginalia within negative spaces

- Marking or coloring within the central circle

- Shading via different means (scribbling, crosshatching, or with colors)

- Rotating a quadrant upon its own axis

It's important to note that stenographers also often write (either in Royal Bysoncian, Sea Bysoncian or Voktlandish) in accompaniment with these symbols. The idea is for each stenographer to come up with a system of encoding that works for it. Eudastiphos Hand could thus be considered an amalgamate, interlingual cipher built from other Ashrian languages.

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In terms of communication systems which exist on Earth, this is most readily compared to Nsibidi.

A combinatorial conlang whose symbols find many uses.

This is the written language of early Azwelke people from Planet Ashr in my game Endless Sea of Stars. The symbols are called "Moon Runes" (both pejoratively and not), and each represents a cluster of phonemes. The language is similar to Katakana Japanese in that written words are sounded out. Proper nouns cannot be written in Moon Runes, and so such nouns rely on Old Azwelkeland Script to be committed to record.

The Wolves of Euphedora still use these symbols as part of their own hidden language, here called "RZ". Since this cipher invents no new characters, these Moon Runes can be used to write RZ as well.

These symbols are also still used in modern Ashrian astrology. Their designations below reflect this fact.

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- ESOSVM DESIGNATION -

TextData Block #013-ASHRJ, "Moon Runes KF-21 Original"

6!000001 "Hunter's Moon, New"

6!000002 "Hunter's Moon, First Quarter"

6!000003 "Hunter's Moon, Last Quarter"

6!000004 "Hunter's Moon, Waxing Gibbous"

6!000005 "Hunter's Moon, Waning Gibbous"

6!000006 "Hunter's Moon, Full"

6!000007 "Traveller's Moon, New" 

6!000008 "Traveller's Moon, First Quarter"

6!000009 "Traveller's Moon, Last Quarter"

6!000010 "Traveller's Moon, Waxing Gibbous"

6!000011 "Traveller's Moon, Waning Gibbous"

6!000012 "Traveller's Moon, Full"

6!000013 "Demarcator L"

6!000014 "Demarcator R"

6!000015 "Traveller's Moon Eclipses Ashrflame"

6!000016 "Hunter's Moon Eclipses Ashr"

6!000017 "Traveller's Moon Eclipses Ashr"

6!000018 "Hunter's Moon Eclipses Ashrflame"

6!000019 "Northern Double Eclipse"

6!000020 "Ashr Eclipses Hunter's Moon"

6!000021 "Ashr Eclipses Traveller's Moon"

6!000022 "Southern Double Eclipse"

The original logotype font used for Endless Sea of Stars/ESOS, a massive simulation. Designed by me circa 2010.

Since this uses only right angles and has no lone pixels except those in negative space, it's pixel perfect at any size. That's why it's in two collections.

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Original size: 5.25pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Symbols used on board Marengi Mk.0 and later ships.

- SEMIOTIC STANDARD -

1. All symbols are to be sized at least 72cm high for physical signage/labels and at least APX2.2 for use on electronic displays.

2. All symbols are to be prominently placed such that personnel do not obscure them as they perform their duties.

3. All labels/signage will use a strongly photoreactive pigment of hexadecimal color #E43B44 for the outline. All electronic versions will use the aforementioned hex color for their outlines as well.

Marengi inverted and made to look like it's on a tape or reel. This is used in videos for captions and in games to produce a "caution tape" or "police tape" effect. Uppercase Only!

A terminal font used in several of my own games. Think of it as my own replacement font for a DOS prompt. It is meant for all-uppercase terminal use and does not have extended language support.

This design has been further refined since its initial Fontstruction. I have improved its aesthetics as well as its visual interpretability using Marinanian methods. This is still a design with more functionality than aesthetic appeal, though.

Original size: 3.75pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

See also:Amalgarmada, Amalgarmada 2

High-res version of Marengi.

This is made to be ultramodern and ultraregular, just as high-tech futuristic corporations are wont to make their fonts.

MIV: 7.94

Recommended: Use with kerning and antialiasing turned ON!

Another brickswap of Marengi. This one will be programmed into actual marquee displays, some physical and some software-based. If only the glow of the LEDs could be simulated with bricks!

Original size: 11pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

Marengi Serif. It's like Marengi, but with serifs!

The serifs give this a wider, more open/airy feeling. Slightly less readable than original Marengi, but slightly more pleasing to look at.

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MIV: 7.85

Original size: 11pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

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A clone of Marengi with some brick-substitution and filters applied. Has a "rightward" momentum that seems to push my eyes along as I read, as well as a connectedness which makes words seem nice and solid despite being segmented.

The main font used by MARENGI Omnisystems in my video game series, "Endless Sea Of Stars". These letterforms can be found engraved into or projected onto practically every piece of MO technology. This script was designed in 2011 to be suitable for printing, logo design, art, and many other purposes. It lacks the constant height which most of my other pixel fonts have, but makes up for it with its bookish appearance.

Unfortunately, replicating the exact design of the antialiased version of this font is impossible, not only on FontStruct, but on all software other than ESOSVM. This is because ESOSVM uses a custom renderer which makes use of proprietary techniques. Marengi HD comes close, but not very.

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Versioning:

2.6 (19Aug2018) - "bdďđ" were perfected. Space width reduced.

2.5 (20Jul2018) - "IÌÍÎÏø" were perfected and massive kerning work began.

2.4 (15Jul2018) - "J" was perfected and several letterwidths were altered.

2.3 (18May2018) - "hnru34679ÀÁÂÃÅÈÉÊÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕØÙÚÛÝÞßàáâãåæçèéêìíîïñòóôõøùúûý" were perfected.

2.2 (17May2018) - ":;gjty%/\ÂÆÊÎÔÛâæêîôû¼½¾" were edited for more consistency and readability.

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MIV: 8.74

Original size: 11pt (use multiples of this value for pixel perfection)

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