Deseret
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Deseret font by Daniel U. Thibault is a free foreign-look typeface dedicated to the historic Deseret alphabet, with glyph designs originating from James Kass. Its rounded, even strokes and softly hooked forms give the script a steady, learnable rhythm, while the open shapes keep each character easy to distinguish. The overall effect feels both archival and accessible—like a careful transcription of a rare writing system, ready for contemporary layouts.
Using Deseret, this free font becomes a natural fit for language-learning charts, primers, academic posters, conlang projects, speculative interfaces, museum graphics, and puzzle games. The generous spacing holds up well at larger sizes, so use it for headings or callouts and pair it with a plain sans serif for Latin text to keep everything readable and organized.
Using Deseret, this free font becomes a natural fit for language-learning charts, primers, academic posters, conlang projects, speculative interfaces, museum graphics, and puzzle games. The generous spacing holds up well at larger sizes, so use it for headings or callouts and pair it with a plain sans serif for Latin text to keep everything readable and organized.
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Basic font information
Copyright notice
© Daniel U. Thibault 2002; glyphs are © James Kass 1998-2002
Font family
Deseret
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Urhixidur:Deseret Regular:2002
Full font name
Deseret
Name table version
Version 1.00; 2002 August 13
Postscript font name
Deseret
Manufacturer name
Designer
Description
Deseret 2002 1.00
A freeware Deseret alphabet font. Since it occupies the Unicode 3.1 range $10400-$1044F, it is unaccessible to older implementations. Here we mapped the Deseret alphabet into the Latin-1 Unicode range. Arbitrarily, the transcription is as follows:
Long i = i; Long e = e; Long a = a;
Long ah = á; Long o = o; Long oo = u;
Short i = î; Short e = ê; Short a = â;
Short ah = à; Short o = ô; Short oo = û;
AY = ã; OW = õ; WU = w;
YEE = y; H = h; PEE = p;
BEE = b; TEE = t; DEE = d;
CHEE = c; JEE = j; KAY = k;
GAY = g; EF = f; VEE = v;
ETH = ð; THEE = þ; ES = s;
ZEE = z; ESH = š (s caron), q; ZHEE = (z caron), x;
ER = r; EL = l; EM = m;
EN = n; ENG = ñ.
The punctuation, digits and miscellaneous symbols are standard Latin glyphs. Note that existing Deseret samples also mix Roman numerals within the text.
The glyphs were extracted from James Kass' Code2001, an experimental Plane 1 Unicode 3.1 font.
A freeware Deseret alphabet font. Since it occupies the Unicode 3.1 range $10400-$1044F, it is unaccessible to older implementations. Here we mapped the Deseret alphabet into the Latin-1 Unicode range. Arbitrarily, the transcription is as follows:
Long i = i; Long e = e; Long a = a;
Long ah = á; Long o = o; Long oo = u;
Short i = î; Short e = ê; Short a = â;
Short ah = à; Short o = ô; Short oo = û;
AY = ã; OW = õ; WU = w;
YEE = y; H = h; PEE = p;
BEE = b; TEE = t; DEE = d;
CHEE = c; JEE = j; KAY = k;
GAY = g; EF = f; VEE = v;
ETH = ð; THEE = þ; ES = s;
ZEE = z; ESH = š (s caron), q; ZHEE = (z caron), x;
ER = r; EL = l; EM = m;
EN = n; ENG = ñ.
The punctuation, digits and miscellaneous symbols are standard Latin glyphs. Note that existing Deseret samples also mix Roman numerals within the text.
The glyphs were extracted from James Kass' Code2001, an experimental Plane 1 Unicode 3.1 font.
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
MacintoshRoman
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2002-08-12
Revision1
Glyph count207
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for editing allowed
Family classNo classification
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionMixed directional glyphs
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced