insa pi supa lape
“insa pi supa lape” is a sitelen pona font I designed, based on “Bedstead”. It’s a vector font that is built from a bunch of 5x9 bitmaps for each character. The font includes all 120 official words, several community-added ones (such as tonsi and leko) and loanword brackets (as replacement for cartouches).
All the characters have ligatures: typing regular Latin-based toki pona text displays it using sitelen pona. In addition, characters have their own codepoints according to the UCSUR standard for sitelen pona.
Most characters are based on regular sitelen pona characters, but there are some changes necessary due to the font’s design.
“jaki”, being too difficult to represent in the font’s format, is instead designed as a combination of the Latin letters “j” and “k”.
“luka” is designed as more of a mitten-like shape to avoid it looking too narrow or weird.
“moli” is a picture of a skull.
“olin” is represented as a heart symbol with an overline above, since the original character doesn’t work well in this font.
“pakala” has the lines at the left and right side removed to fit better.
“seme” is drawn as an outlined question mark in order to make it distinct from a regular question mark.
insa pi supa lape chart
example texts
Here’s the basic example from the sitelen pona page, written in this font.
wan ni pi lipu ni li sitelen kepeken sitelen pona. sina ken ala ken sona e ni.
Loanword brackets test:
ma [kasi alasa nasin awen telo a] li suli. (ma Kanata li suli.)
ma [kasi alasa nasin awen telo a] li suli.
Note: Proper cartouches can only be used by using UCSUR codepoints.
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Composite “pi” test:
ona li jan pi_ sona_ mute_.
ona li jan pi_ sona_ mute_.
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download
The font’s source code is in public domain and is available on my GitLab page, and is also provided in a more standard form on the releases page.