Zuish.Font

The Zu is the anicent language of the Zu Folk. The language is used to solve many puzzles(spoiler ahead!) in the game 'FEZ'. Zuish.Font makes the Zu alphabet into a usable web font.

Zuish.Font is modified based on http://www.dafont.com/zuish.font and http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/761583, and aiming to make it better for using on the web.

Alphabet

a	b	c	d	e	f
a	b	c	d	e	f
g	h	i	j	k/q	l
g	h	i	j	k	l
m	n	o	p	z	r
m	n	o	p	z	r
s	t	u/v	w	x	y
s	t	u	w	x	y

Sample

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG

Numeric System

According to the original design in game, the numeric system is based on combining small numbers to create larger number. Zuish.Font simulates the same mechanism by utilizing unicode combining marks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_character

Basic elements and numbers

⃝ top pointer, unicode: 0x20DD
⃞ right pointer, unicode: 0x20DE
⃢ bottom pointer, unicode: 0x20E2
⃣ left pointer, unicode: 0x20E3
⓪ =0 unicode: 0x24EA

by combining ⓪(zero) and the pointers, it creates numbers from 1 to 4:

⓪⃝ =1 unicode: 0x24EA 0x20DD
⓪⃞ =2 unicode: 0x24EA 0x20DE
⓪⃢ =3 unicode: 0x24EA 0x20E2
⓪⃣ =4 unicode: 0x24EA 0x20E3

Then by taking one more step to combining 1 to 4 together, we can create numbers from 5 - 10:

⓪⃝⃣ =1+4=5 unicode: 0x24EA 0x20DD 0x20E3
⓪⃞⃢ =2+3=5 unicode: 0x24EA 0x20DE 0x20E2
⓪⃞⃣ =2+4=6 unicode: 0x24EA 0x20DE 0x20E3
⓪⃢⃣ =3+4=7 unicode: 0x24EA 0x20E2 0x20E3
⓪⃝⃢⃣ =1+3+4=8 unicode: 0x24EA 0x20DD 0x20E2 0x20E3
⓪⃞⃢⃣ =2+3+4=9 unicode: 0x24EA 0x20DE 0x20E2 0x20E3
⓪⃝⃞⃢⃣ =1+2+3+4=10 unicode: 0x24EA 0x20DD 0x20DE 0x20E2 0x20E3

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Known issue

Vertical number doesn't combine correctly on webkit browser:

HELLO ⓪⃞⃢ WORLD GOOD JOB

solution:

HELLO ⓪⃞⃢ WORLD GOOD JOB