https://github.com/ctrlcctrlv/frbcistercian

FRB Cistercian is an OpenType font for the medeival number system known as the Cistercian numerals
https://github.com/ctrlcctrlv/frbcistercian

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FRB Cistercian is an OpenType font for the medeival number system known as the Cistercian numerals

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ctrlcctrlv/frbcistercian
• Owner: ctrlcctrlv
• License: ofl-1.1
• Created: 2020-12-25T00:11:30.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2020-12-26T07:29:49.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-17T20:13:54.071Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 81.1 KB
• Stars: 29
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# FRB Cistercian

* [Download font](https://github.com/ctrlcctrlv/FRBCistercian/raw/main/dist/FRBCistercian.otf)

* [Numberphile™ video about Cistercian numerals (“The Forgotten Number System”)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p55Qgt7Ciw)

FRB Cistercian is an OpenType font for the medeival number system known as the [Cistercian numerals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals).

This font was inspired by Kirk Miller's Unicode document [L2/20-290](https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20290-cistercian-digits.pdf).

This font currently uses the Private Use Area, as these characters are not yet in Unicode. See `codepoints.tsv` and `codepoints.txt`.

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ctrlcctrlv/FRBCistercian/main/dist/specimen.png)

## Building

Only FontForge is required. There's no SFD file, the source file is `make_font.py`, the entire font is made in FontForge's Python API.

Just run `make`, see `Makefile` for commands.