Constructium is a free font for supporting constructed scripts, as encoded in the Unofficial ConScript Unicode Registry. It is based on SIL Gentium and thus released under the SIL Open Font License.
Constructium is ideal for mixed Latin/Greek/Cyrillic, IPA, and conlang text, thus well suited for conlangers' web sites. (Be careful. Web site creation software, such as Dreamweaver, may not like Private Use Area characters. It is better to stick to a plain text editor.)
In addition to most Latin and Greek, basic Cyrillic, and IPA extensions, Constructium supports the following conscripts: Tengwar, Cirth, Ámman-Îar, Olaetyan, Seussian Latin Extensions, Sylabica (isolated forms only, no syllables), Unifon, Solresol, Glaitha-A, Glaitha-B, Deini, Kamakawi (encoded at U+F000), and Klingon. I would very much like to add support for even more conscripts in the future.
(Please note, however, that Constructium can't do completely accurate rendering of conscripts that need typography beyond that of simple Latin text. For the scripts that Constructium supports, this means Tengwar and Glaitha-B. Although modern font technologies are at least somewhat capable of this, I do not yet know how to utilize these technologies.)
Important: Starting May 4, 2010, Constructium and Fairfax use the updated 2001 encoding for Tengwar and Cirth rather than the older 1998 encoding. If you have Tengwar or Cirth text written using older versions of Constructium or Fairfax, you may use our TolkienRecode tool to re-encode your text.
Once you have Constructium installed, you should be able to see the text below. (Whether you can read the text is another thing entirely.)
The inscription on the One Ring:
The inscription from the title page of Lord of the Rings:
The Seussian letters:
Sylabica:
Unifon:
Solresol:
The first sentence of the founding document of Mika City:
My name in Glaitha-B:
Tolkien's Beren and Luthien in ámman-îar:
, ,
,
.
,
.
Some Deini text:
Some Kamakawi text, which is actually quite inaccurate since not all glyphs have been encoded (the glyphs , , and here are actually supposed to be different, vaguely similar glyphs):
Some Klingon text:
Constructium also includes some other weird things, such as: precomposed for Romanized Mikiana; "Greek" letters for Pheobe Buffay's sorority, (Thi Mega Tampon), Cory (or was it Eric?) Matthews' fraternity, Π (Magnum Pi), and Stewie Griffin's fraternity, (Ei Phelta Thi); and letters with swishy tails that emulate Tamm Eihteen' handwriting.
For applications requiring monospaced fonts (terminal windows, vim, code editors, etc.), you may want to use the font Fairfax, a 6x12 bitmap font that supports everything Constructium supports, and more! (Support for Kamakawi was added as of March 7, 2009, 9:45 PM PST. Support for Amlin was added as of January 18, 2010, 1:00 AM PST. Support for Ámman-Îar was added as of September 2, 2010, 8:45 PM PST.)
Fairfax supports the following conscripts: Tengwar, Cirth, Verdurian, Ámman-Îar (added September 2, 2010, 8:45 PM PST), Xaini, Olaetyan, Seussian Latin Extensions, Sylabica (again, isolated forms only), Ewellic, Amlin (added January 18, 2010, 1:00 AM PST), Shavian (in the old CSUR encoding), Unifon, Solresol, Visible Speech, Monofon, Deseret (in the old CSUR encoding), Glaitha-A, Glaitha-B, Deini, Kamakawi (encoded at U+F000; added March 7, 2009, 9:45 PM PST), and Klingon.
Important: Starting May 4, 2010, Constructium and Fairfax use the updated 2001 encoding for Tengwar and Cirth rather than the older 1998 encoding. If you have Tengwar or Cirth text written using older versions of Constructium or Fairfax, you may use our TolkienRecode tool to re-encode your text.
Once you have Fairfax installed, you should be able to see the text below. (Whether you can read the text is another thing entirely.)
The inscription on the One Ring:
The inscription from the title page of Lord of the Rings:
The Seussian letters:
Sylabica:
Unifon:
Solresol:
The first sentence of the founding document of Mika City:
My name in Glaitha-B:
Tolkien's Beren and Luthien in ámman-îar:
, ,
,
.
,
.
Some Deini text:
Some Kamakawi text, which is actually quite inaccurate since not all glyphs have been encoded (the glyphs , , and here are actually supposed to be different, vaguely similar glyphs):
Some Klingon text:
Fairfax also includes some other weird things, such as: precomposed for Romanized Mikiana; "Greek" letters for Pheobe Buffay's sorority, (Thi Mega Tampon), Cory (or was it Eric?) Matthews' fraternity, Π (Magnum Pi), and Stewie Griffin's fraternity, (Ei Phelta Thi); and letters with swishy tails that emulate Tamm Eihteen' handwriting.
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