This makes a font that displays all characters as their hexadecimal representation. So:
Hello World!
In this font will render as:
48 65 6C 6C 6F 20 57 6F 72 6C 64 21 0A
This is done by changing the characters in the font, the H character in the font is 48 for
example. The font always renders the utf-8 encoded bytes for each character; ’ (Unicode 0x2019)
renders as E2 80 99.
The font is created using a fontforge Python script to convert the DejaVu Sans Mono font to the one that converts some unicode blocks into their hexadecimal 'hexdump' equivalents.
Tested and developed against fontforge 11:21 UTC 24-Sep-2017, libfontforge 20170924 (from Ubuntu
18.04 apt mirrors), confirmed working with fontforge 20190801 (from Ubuntu 20.04).
Run make in this directory. This writes the fontforge sfd file to the out directory, as well
as writing the .ttf file there. An example html page that uses this font can be hosted with
make test_host, the textarea allows typing text in this font.
On Linux, it's easiest to copy the ttf file to the ~/.local/share/fonts/ directory, do note that
in 'fancy' editors that show the font in its own typeface in the fontselector (Inkscape and
OpenOffice), the font is called 48 65 78 44 75 6D 70 46 6F 6E 74 0A, but probably still sorted
near the 'H'.
On Windows, use the .otf file to ensure unicode characters display correctly.
This is clearly a derivative work of dejavu-fonts; as such, the binary releases in this repository are governed by the compatible SIL Open Font License, found in the OFL.txt file. The source code to generate the font is licensed under BSD-3-clause, found in LICENSE.