Author's note

Code 2002 by James Kass is a free literary serif font with a Central European, Unicode brief and a distinctly bookish tone. The letters pair classical proportions with a few calligraphic twists - the curling top on the 2, the wedge-like serif endings, and the rounded lowercase forms give it a slightly old-world, cultured feel rather than a neutral text voice.

It suits editorial covers, cultural posters, museum graphics, poetry titles, and program notes where a free font needs some heritage without turning ornate. The mix of stately capitals, soft lowercase rhythm, and that gently decorative numeral style also makes it work well for chapter openers, title cards, and short pull-quote settings.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Typeface © James Kass 1998-2005. Data © James Kass 1998-2005. All Rights Reserved.
Font family
Code2002
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Code2002
Full font name
Code2002
Name table version
Version 0.917
Postscript font name
Code2002
Trademark notice
Notice: Code2002 may be freely distributed, but you don't own it and may not alter it in any manner whatsoever.
Manufacturer name
James Kass
Designer
James Kass
Description
Code2002 is an experimental Plane 2 Unicode based font. The first 255 code points are as in ISO-8859-001. The balance of the code points are from Plane 2, an "astral plane" of Unicode. Plane 2 is comprised of "CJK Extension B", consisting of approximately 43,000 CJK characters which are not encoded in Plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
MicrosoftUnicode full repertoire

Font details

Created1998-01-23
Glyph count30469
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for editing allowed
Family classFreeform serifs
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs
Pattern natureRegular
PitchMonospaced