Fallback Font - The GNU Unifont

The GNU Unifont

The GNU Unifont is a font that contains a glyph for every character in the Unicode Basic multilingual plane. Unlike the Unicode BMP Fallback font or the Unicode Last Resort Font, the characters are readable by a human - an "A" looks like an "A" instead of a generic glyph or a hexadecimal code.

The goal of the GNU Unifont project is to "lower our expectations about the font quality to a reasonable degree" in order to obtain complete coverage of all Unicode characters. To achieve this goal, all glyphs are 16 pixels in height and either 8 or 16 pixels in width.

A TrueType version of the GNU Unifont is available.