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  1. Thanks to @jlhwung, the so beautifully crafted 'BabelStone Han' font by Andrew West (魏安), is alive and well!

    The latest version 17.0.0, made of 'BabelStoneHanBasic.ttf' and 'BabelStoneHanExtra.ttf', is available from:

    🔗 github.com/babelstone/babelsto

    #BabelStone #BabelStoneHan #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #CJKV

  2. Thanks to @jlhwung, the so beautifully crafted 'BabelStone Han' font by Andrew West (魏安), is alive and well!

    The latest version 17.0.0, made of 'BabelStoneHanBasic.ttf' and 'BabelStoneHanExtra.ttf', is available from:

    🔗 github.com/babelstone/babelsto

    #BabelStone #BabelStoneHan #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #CJKV

  3. Thanks to @jlhwung, the so beautifully crafted 'BabelStone Han' font by Andrew West (魏安), is alive and well!

    The latest version 17.0.0, made of 'BabelStoneHanBasic.ttf' and 'BabelStoneHanExtra.ttf', is available from:

    🔗 github.com/babelstone/babelsto

    #BabelStone #BabelStoneHan #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #CJKV

  4. Thanks to @jlhwung, the so beautifully crafted 'BabelStone Han' font by Andrew West (魏安), is alive and well!

    The latest version 17.0.0, made of 'BabelStoneHanBasic.ttf' and 'BabelStoneHanExtra.ttf', is available from:

    🔗 github.com/babelstone/babelsto

    #BabelStone #BabelStoneHan #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #CJKV

  5. Thanks to @jlhwung, the so beautifully crafted 'BabelStone Han' font by Andrew West (魏安), is alive and well!

    The latest version 17.0.0, made of 'BabelStoneHanBasic.ttf' and 'BabelStoneHanExtra.ttf', is available from:

    🔗 github.com/babelstone/babelsto

    #BabelStone #BabelStoneHan #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #CJKV

  6. Unicode 17.0 introduces five new CJK Unified Ideographs related to Chinese personal pronouns, four of them having been proposed by Andrew West (BabelStone):

    « The other Chinese pronoun coming to Unicode v. 17.0 next year, in addition to ⿰㐅也 (3p gender-neutral, ⿰男也 (3p explicitly male), ⿱妳心 ( f. equivalent of 您), ⿱我心 (Taiwanese 1p plural), is ⿱她心 (f. equivalent to 怹) »

    🔗 bsky.app/profile/babelstone.co

    #Unicopedia #Unicode #BabelStone #Chinese #PersonalPronouns

  7. New in the CJK Variations utility of Unicopedia Sinica:

    - Support for the latest Ideographic Variation Database (IVD 2025), adding the new CAAPH Collection.

    - Support for the updated BabelStone Collection (unregistered), based on the latest BabelStone Han font (v17.0.0 BETA), by Andrew C. West (魏安), 1960-2025 RIP (安息吧).

    🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unic

    #Unicopedia #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #IdeographicVariationDatabase #IVD #CAAPH #BabelStone

  8. New in the CJK Variations utility of Unicopedia Sinica:

    - Support for the latest Ideographic Variation Database (IVD 2025), adding the new CAAPH Collection.

    - Support for the updated BabelStone Collection (unregistered), based on the latest BabelStone Han font (v17.0.0 BETA), by Andrew C. West (魏安), 1960-2025 RIP (安息吧).

    🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unic

    #Unicopedia #Unicode #Unihan #CJK #IdeographicVariationDatabase #IVD #CAAPH #BabelStone

  9. Precious Seals of the Qing Dynasty 清代寶璽 — a set of one hundred postcards published by the Palace Museum in 1932 which show the Chinese and Manchu inscriptions on the faces of one hundred Qing dynasty imperial seals.

    (‪Andrew West 魏安 - BabelStone)

    babelstone.co.uk/Manchu/Qingda

    #qingdynasty #imperial #seals #chinese #manchu #babelstone

  10. Precious Seals of the Qing Dynasty 清代寶璽 — a set of one hundred postcards published by the Palace Museum in 1932 which show the Chinese and Manchu inscriptions on the faces of one hundred Qing dynasty imperial seals.

    (‪Andrew West 魏安 - BabelStone)

    babelstone.co.uk/Manchu/Qingda

    #qingdynasty #imperial #seals #chinese #manchu #babelstone

  11. Precious Seals of the Qing Dynasty 清代寶璽 — a set of one hundred postcards published by the Palace Museum in 1932 which show the Chinese and Manchu inscriptions on the faces of one hundred Qing dynasty imperial seals.

    (‪Andrew West 魏安 - BabelStone)

    babelstone.co.uk/Manchu/Qingda

    #qingdynasty #imperial #seals #chinese #manchu #babelstone

  12. Precious Seals of the Qing Dynasty 清代寶璽 — a set of one hundred postcards published by the Palace Museum in 1932 which show the Chinese and Manchu inscriptions on the faces of one hundred Qing dynasty imperial seals.

    (‪Andrew West 魏安 - BabelStone)

    babelstone.co.uk/Manchu/Qingda

    #qingdynasty #imperial #seals #chinese #manchu #babelstone

  13. Precious Seals of the Qing Dynasty 清代寶璽 — a set of one hundred postcards published by the Palace Museum in 1932 which show the Chinese and Manchu inscriptions on the faces of one hundred Qing dynasty imperial seals.

    (‪Andrew West 魏安 - BabelStone)

    babelstone.co.uk/Manchu/Qingda

    #qingdynasty #imperial #seals #chinese #manchu #babelstone

  14. The latest version of the free BabelStone Han font (v.16.0.2), by Andrew West (魏安), has just been released. It includes more than 60,000 CJK unified ideographs, and supports a provisional set of 2,452 ideographic variation sequences (IVS) for 1,196 characters.

    🔗 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.htm
    🔗 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/BSH_IVS

    #unicode #babelstone #font #cjk #han #hanzi #kanji #hanja

  15. I agree it's nice to have a reasonably accessible resource (e.g. fontawesome; material from google) that provides easy to use glyph icons as fonts.

    For the longest time, I was steadfast in wanting to use a #standards based solution like
    Unicode Misc Symbols.
    whatsonyourbrain.com/adb/unico

    In fact, since I last studied it with intent, there are so many reasonably useful unicode symbols and glyphs easily accessible via corresponding #NCR in most languages relevant to "web" or / mobile app UI's.

    I like options. But, I like to have standardized modular code.

    @unicodedatapoetry
    @SmoothUnicode
    @w3c @blaise
    @babelstone

    #WebStandards #unicode #uxDesign #babelstone #WCAG

  16. Beautifully crafted BabelStone Han font, by Andrew West 魏安

    #BabelStone Han v. 15.1.3 is a free #Unicode #CJK #font with over 57,000 Han characters (#hanzi, #kanji, #hanja), and 62,061 Unicode characters in total. It is a Song/Ming style (宋体/明體) font, with glyphs modelled on the official character forms used in the People's Republic of China, and is primarily intended for writing Modern Standard #Chinese, Classical Chinese, and various Sinitic languages and dialects.

    🔗 babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Han.htm