Tag Archives: character set

The ATASCII font, used in Atari’s 8-bit computers.

ArmSCII: Armenian ASCII, formally defined in 1997.


The original emoji set, made by Shigetaka Kurita for DoCoMo in 1999 (top image, now in MOMA). The other images are from the 2001-version, which Monica recently turned into a font that you can use for free.

The two character sets of the Soviet Апогей БК-01 home computer. From this video.

The difference between what you see on keyboard and what is available in font is often staggering.

Yves Peters

2 hour video that shows all the 109,242 characters of Unicode 6.0. Made by the decodeunicode crew, apparently independent from the one that Jörg Piringer did.

ArmSCII, a set of Armenian ASCII-standards published in 1997. Note that it contains ֎ (the eternity sign) and … (horizontal ellipsis). ISO published another standard for Armenian in 1996, which became much more popular, but it lacked eternity and ellipsis.

Elektronika MK-85 and its character set. It was the first Soviet calculator with BASIC, and almost an exact copy of the Casio FX-700P.

Minitel character set. Photo by Kevin Driscoll.

The Galaksija computer and the graphics part of its character set. Designed by Voja Antonic in Yugoslavia, 1983. Screenshots from games and an adaptation of the classic Dancing Demon animation.

Also check µGalaksija, a single-chip remake of the Galaksija.