BabelStone Symbols is a font covering all individual symbol characters defined in the Unicode Standard version 11.0, including pictographic characters that are commonly known as Emoji. The font is intended for use as a fallback font where no more suitable font is available.
A large number of the glyphs in this font have been autotraced from the Unicode code charts. I am very grateful to those who produced the artwork for the code chart glyphs, especially Michael Everson who drew most of the pictographic characters in the Unicode Standard, but as the code charts are intended to be used a reference guides by font developers, I do not think that carefully copying the reference designs is a violation of the terms of use (I specifically do not extract any of the fonts or font data from the PDF files, but just use the FontCreator font editor to autotrace the glyph outlines). However, not all characters in the font are autotraced from the code charts, and a few are quite idiosyncratic, so this font should not be relied on as an indication of what the official code chart glyphs look like.
The font does not currently cover Emoji Sequences and Emoji ZWJ Sequences. For Emoji flag sequences please see my BabelStone Flags font.
The font provides black and white glyphs for most characters, but a few characters are also available in color format using the COLR/CPAL font tables. These characters should render in color in most browsers and in some applications (black and white glyphs will be used in applications that do not support color fonts). Some of the characters with color glyphs are Domino tiles, Mahjong tiles, Playing cards, Xiangqi chess pieces, and emoticons.
BabelStone Symbols is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which means you are free to use it for personal or commercial purposes, and to redistribute it by itself or as part of a free or commercial software package, just as long as you do not sell the font on its own. The license also allows you to modify the font in any way you like, as long as the modified font does not use "BabelStone" in its name. Please read the license for details.
| BabelStone Symbols | v. 11.000 (2018-06-10) |