The European Font Library
The European font library is included in the IconEdit package, and comes with a Black&White and Grey Intensity Level C-source code font library for European and Middle-Eastern languages plus Vietnamese, it also includes Symbols and Large Numbers.
Together with the Asian font library the European font library covers most of the World:
The Font Library has Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek characters to cover all of Europe, and South and North America, Latin characters for Vietnam, plus Hebrew characters and Arabic with presentation characters for the Middle East.
The Font Library has also a group of Unicode fonts with Currency, Symbols for Widgets, Arrows, Icons, and Emoji:
The Font Library also has separate fonts with large numbers in a variaty of shapes:
Save start-up time by using existing to C-source code pixel based fonts for your embedded systems.
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Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries. If you don't want to buy IconEdit with the fonts included, the font library can be bought seperately or bundeled with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
The Font Library content
The font library is for European and Middle-Eastern languages.
The font library contains characters for the following languages and regions:
- Albanian, American, Arabic, Australian, Azerbaijani
- Belarusian, Belgian, Bosnian, Brazilian, Bulgarian
- Canadian, Croatian, Czech
- Danish, Dari, Dutch
- English, Estonian
- Faroese, Farsi, Finnish, French
- Gaelic, German, Greek
- Hebrew, Hungarian
- Icelandic, Irish, Italian
- Kazakh, Kyrgyz
- Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish
- Macedonian, Maltese, Magyar, Maori
- Norwegian
- Persian, Polish, Portuguese
- Romanian, Russian
- Sami, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss
- Tatar, Turkish
- Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek
- Vietnamese
- Welsh.
The Arial, Light, Roboto, and Times font groups cover all the listed languages according to Unicode, the other font groups have various subsets.
See the separate font chapters in the EuropeanFonts.pdf document for at listing of covered languages of each particular font.
The font library has Black&White and Grey Intensity Level C-source code raster fonts (pixel fonts or bitmap fonts) for 16-bit and 32-bit Unicode and classic 8-bit Windows and 8-bit ISO-8859 character encoding.
If you need Chinese. Japanese, or Korean characters you can find them in the Asian Font Library that is avaliable seperately.
More about the Asian Font Library.
The Font Look
The following are samples of the font library look. For full documentation of the font library download the European Font manual. The manual shows samples of all the Unicode characters in each font family.
If you want to see precisely what is in any particular font you can download IconEdit with the font library in compressed form, and open the .cbn fonts either directly with the open button in IconEdit, with Drag'n'Drop unto IconEdit, or with right-click on the .cbn font and choose open with IconEdit.
Arial
Arial Normal
Arial Bold
Arial Normal & Arial Bold are sans-serif variants of the same proportional characters.
The Arial, Light, Roboto & Times fonts are interchangeable in the meaning that the same Unicode character exist in the same size both as Black&White and Grey Intensity Level and with sans-serif and serif look.
The Arial Normal and Arial Bold fonts comes as both Black&White and Grey Intensity Level C-source code.
Coverage: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, Hebrew, and Arabic as defined in Unicode. Each font contains 1061 characters.
Size range: B&W Height 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 96, 128, 192 and 256 pixels, Grey Height 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48, and 64 pixels.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
Light
Light
The Arial, Light, Roboto & Times fonts are interchangeable in the meaning that the same Unicode character exist in the same size both as Black&White and Grey Intensity Level and with sans-serif and serif look.
The Light fonts comes as both Black&White and Grey Intensity Level C-source code.
Coverage: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, Hebrew, and Arabic as defined in Unicode. Each font contains 1061 characters.
Size range: B&W Height 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 96, 128, 192 and 256 pixels, Grey Height 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 96, and 128 pixels.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
Numbers
Numbers Sizes
Size range: B&W has 9 different Looks each with Height 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 96, 128, 192, 256, 384 and 512 pixels, Grey has 21 different Looks each with Height 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 96, and 128 pixels.
Numbers Arial
The Arial Numbers fonts comes as both Black&White and Grey Intensity Level C-source code.
Numbers Cal
The Cal Numbers fonts comes as Grey Intensity Level C-source code.
Numbers Times
The Times Numbers fonts comes as Grey Intensity Level C-source code.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
Times
Times Normal
Times Bold
Times Narrow
Times Narrow Bold
Times Normal, Times Bold, Times Narrow, and Times Narrow Bold are serif variants of the same proportional characters.
The Arial, Light, Roboto & Times fonts are interchangeable in the meaning that the same Unicode character exist in the same size both as Black&White and Grey Intensity Level and with sans-serif and serif look.
The Times Normal and Times Bold fonts comes as both Black&White and Grey Intensity Level C-source code.
The Times Narrow and Times Narrow Bold fonts comes as Grey Intensity Level C-source code.
Coverage: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, Hebrew, and Arabic as defined in Unicode. Each font contains 1061 characters.
Size range: B&W Height 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 96, 128, 192 and 256 pixels, Grey Height 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48, and 64 pixels.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
Symbols
Symbols Regular
Symbols Bold
Symbols are proportional characters.
The Symbols fonts as both Black&White and Grey Intensity Level C-source code.
Coverage: Currency symbols, symbols for Widgets, Selected Arrows, Icons, and Emoji as defined in Unicode. Each font contains 1515 symbols.
Size range: B&W Height 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 96, 128, 192 and 256 pixels, Grey Height 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48, 64, 96, and 128 pixels.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
Roboto
Roboto are sans-serif narrow proportional characters.
The Arial, Light, Roboto & Times fonts are interchangeable in the meaning that the same Unicode character exist in the same size both as Black&White and Grey Intensity Level and with sans-serif and serif look.
The Roboto fonts comes as Grey Intensity Level C-source code.
Coverage: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, Hebrew, and Arabic as defined in Unicode. Each font contains 1061 characters.
Size range: Height 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48, and 64 pixels.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
Bahn
Bahn
Bahn Bold
Bahn & Bahn Bold are sans-serif extra narrow proportional characters.
The Bahn & Bahn Bold fonts comes as Grey Intensity Level C-source code.
Coverage: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic Characters. Each font contains 507 characters.
Size range: Height 16, 20, 24, 32, 40, 48, and 64 pixels.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
Small
Small are a mixture of mono-space characters with a limited amount of serifs.
The fonts comes as Black&White C-source code.
Coverage: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic Characters. Each font contains 561 characters.
Size range: Height 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 20, and 32 pixels.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
Box
Box are mono-space fonts with a limited amount of serifs and box drawing characters inspired by the classic DOS symbols for drawing frames and boxes.
The fonts comes as Black&White C-source code.
Coverage: Latin Characters for Western Europe. Each font contains 311 characters.
Size range: Height 8, 9, 10, 11, and 14 pixels.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
Narrow
Narrow are proportional fonts with large characters.
The Narrow fonts comes as Black&White C-source code.
Coverage: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Vietnamese Presentation Characters. Each font contains 638 characters.
Size range: Height 13, 18, and 24 pixels.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
All ISO-8859 8-bit and many Windows 8-bit fonts as one 16-bit Unicode
All ISO-8859 is a Unicode master font including all the characters defined in all the ISO-8859 and the most common Windows classic 8-bit fonts.
The fonts comes as both Black&White and Grey Intensity Level C-source code.
The characters comes in both proportional and mono-space variants with the same size and look.
Coverage: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Vietnamese, and Arabic and Thai Basic Characters.
Size range: Height B&W 10, 14, 16, 23, 24, 30, and 32 pixels. Height Grey 16, 23, and 30 pixels.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
Classic 8-bit ISO-8859
The All ISO-8859 Unicode character symbols are also included as a set of ISO-8859 classic fonts.
The character symbols are moved to their ISO-8859 character values to make the 15 classic 8-bit ISO-8859 fonts:
- ISO-8859-1 Latin-1 Western European.
- ISO-8859-2 Latin-2 Central European.
- ISO-8859-3 Latin-3 South European.
- ISO-8859-4 Latin-4 Northern European.
- ISO-8859-5 Cyrillic.
- ISO-8859-6 Arabic.
- ISO-8859-7 Greek.
- ISO-8859-8 Hebrew.
- ISO-8859-9 Latin-5 Turkish.
- ISO-8859-10 Latin-6 Nordic.
- ISO-8859-11 Thai.
- ISO-8859-12 Never happened, abandoned in 1997.
- ISO-8859-13 Latin-7 Baltic.
- ISO-8859-14 Latin-8 Celtic.
- ISO-8859-15 Latin-9 Euro.
- ISO-8859-16 Latin-10 South East European.
Coverage: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Arabic and Thai Basic Characters.
Size range: Height 10 to 32 pixels.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
Classic 8-bit Windows
The All ISO-8859 Unicode character symbols are also included as a set of Windows classic fonts.
The character symbols are moved to their Windows 8-bit character values to make the 10 classic 8-bit Windows fonts:
- W-0874-Th Thai.
- W-1250-CE Central European.
- W-1251-Cyr Cyrillic.
- W-1252-WE Western European.
- W-1253-Gre Greek.
- W-1254-Tur Turkish.
- W-1255-Heb Hebrew.
- W-1256-Arb Arabic.
- W-1257-Bal Baltic.
- W-1258-Vie Vietnamese.
Coverage: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Vietnamese, and Arabic and Thai Basic Characters.
Size range: Height 10 to 32 pixels.
Works with RAMTEX display driver libraries.
