Skilled and time-consuming business, and no font found in practice willĬontain every symbol which Unicode defines. However, designing an attractive and coherent set of glyphs is a

Unicodeĭefines a 'code point' for each of thousands upon thousands of differentĬharacters, symbols, and signs Text accompanying music Include Latin alphabets (complete with diacriticals), Greek, Arabic,Ĭyrillic, Hebrew, and a plethora of other symbols. Were limited to 256 characters (or in some cases fewer) now a single fontĬan contain a vast number of characters. In recent years the adoption of the Unicode standard has revolutionisedĬomputer font design and production.