Mona Font is both a Japanese proportional pixel

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for the X Window System, derived from the Shinonome raster font family, and a TrueType font. It aims to represent Shift JIS art graphics properly, almost all of which require the MS PGothic font. Mona is named after Mona, a character-based mascot of

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. Mona uses glyphs from Shinonome (東雲) version 0.9.9 (Gothic) for embedded bitmaps. In version 2.30-pre, it incorporated outline from Kochi-Gothic. However, it was changed to Kochi-substitute in 2.30-pre2 after discovering the copyright violation in

Kochi font Kochi (東風フォント) was a font development project to build free replacements of proprietary fonts such as MS Gothic or MS Mincho, developed by Yasuyuki Furukawa (古川泰之). The project consisted of the Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fo ...

. Glyphs share the characteristics of MS PGothic. Mona supports the following code pages: 1252 (Latin 1), 1250 (Latin 2: East Europe), 1251 (

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), 1253 (Greek), 932 (JIS/Japan), 737 (Greek; former 437G), 437 (US).

mona-outline

mona-outline version 2.30pre2 is included with the source code for the Mona Font source package, which consists of a subset of glyphs found in Mona. The OpenType layout table supports standard ligatures in the default language. When the font is viewed under Windows Font Viewer, a horizontal stroke overlays the glyph. mona-outline supports the following code pages: 932 (JIS/Japan), 437 (US).

IPA monafont

IPA monafont is an extension of IPA Font (IPAフォント), Sazanami Font (さざなみフォント), Mona Font (モナーフォント), M+ Fonts (M+フォント)Mplus outline. Fonts
/ref> created by Jun Kobayashi, which consists of a family of fonts: *IPAMonaGothic (IPA モナーゴシック) *IPAMonaMincho (IPA モナー明朝) *IPAMonaPGothic (IPA モナー P ゴシック) *IPAMonaPMincho (IPA モナー P 明朝) *IPAMonaUIGothic (IPA モナー UI ゴシック) The IPA monafont family supports following the code pages: 1252 (Latin 1), 1251 (Cyrillic), 932 (JIS/Japan), 950 (Big-5), Macintosh Character Set (US Roman), Windows OEM Character Set, 866 (MS-DOS Russian), 865 (MS-DOS Nordic), 863 (MS-DOS Canadian French), 861 (MS-DOS Icelandic), 860 (MS-DOS Portuguese), 855 (IBM Cyrillic; primary Russian), 437 (US). Glyphs for CJK ideographs are reworked to look more like Arial Unicode MS, while sub-glyphs for these characters are repositioned and rescaled. Similar to the MS Gothic and MS Mincho font families, reverse solidus glyph uses a yen sign instead of a backslash. A similar non-standard substitution can be found in the Gulim and Dotum font families.

mona-outline

IPA monafont

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