A bitmap font at 16px and 18px, drawn under the influence of Apple's Chicago and the IBM VGA font. Its Cyrillic covers every modern ISO 8859-5 character plus the Old Slavic letters. Each size comes in a full Unicode cut and a 512-character cut.

Variant size table

Variants Nominal size Han ink box Max ink extents
obilic16-512 16 px No Han glyphs 8×17
obilic16-u 16 px No Han glyphs 8×17
obilic18-512 18 px No Han glyphs 8×19
obilic18-u 18 px No Han glyphs 8×19
Presets
Copy dot matrix

Metrics

Nominal size 16 px
Han ink box No Han glyphs
Cap height 10
x-height 7
Max ink extents 8×17
Ascent / Descent 12 / 4
Font bounding box 8, 17, 0, -4
Spacing Monospaced
Advance width distribution 8px×918
Nominal box 16×16 Max ink 8×17

Character coverage

Overview

Encoded characters 914 / 297,264 0.31%
BMP 918 / 62,089 1.48%

General & international

International Ideographs Core (IICore) 0 / 9,810 0.00%
Unihan Core 2020 0 / 20,720 0.00%
Windows Glyph List 4 561 / 650 86.31%
Basic Latin 95 / 95 100% ✓ Complete
Latin-1 Supplement 95 / 96 98.96%
Latin Extended-A 128 / 128 100% ✓ Complete
Latin Extended-B 0 / 208 0.00%
Cyrillic Everyday Characters 95 / 97 97.94%
Greek Everyday Characters 72 / 72 100% ✓ Complete
Arabic Everyday Characters 0 / 92 0.00%
Thai Everyday Characters 0 / 87 0.00%
Vietnamese Latin 92 / 186 49.46%
IBM Code Page 437 220 / 255 86.27%
Box Drawing 44 / 128 34.38%
Block Elements 0 / 32 0.00%
Powerline Symbols 0 / 41 0.00%
Braille Patterns 0 / 256 0.00%

CJK character map

CJK unified ideographs Unicode 17 0 / 101,996
Selected CJK, without duplicates 0 / 26,2810%
CJK character map Schematic overlaps; areas are not proportional to character counts. Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han: 0 / 11,151; Mainland China · General Simplified Han: 0 / 8,105; Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1: 0 / 2,965; Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han: 0 / 4,620. Simp Trad Shared: 0 / 4,899. Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han 0 / 11,151 0% Common 0 / 4,808 Mainland China · General Simplified Han 0 / 8,105 0% Level 1 0 / 3,500 Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han Simp Trad Shared 0 / 4,899 Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 1 0 / 2,965 Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han 0 / 4,620 0%
Taiwan · Common/Less-common Traditional Han0 / 11,151 0% Common 0 / 4,808
Mainland China · General Simplified Han0 / 8,105 0% Level 1 0 / 3,500
Japan · JIS X 0208 Level 10 / 2,965 0%
Korea · KS X 1001 unified Han0 / 4,620 0%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han0 / 4,899
Hiragana & Katakana 0 / 171 0% Other kana 0 / 408
Hangul syllables 0 / 11,172 0% KS X 1001 syllables 0 / 2,350
Hangul Jamo, with extensions 0 / 451
Basic Bopomofo 0 / 37 0% Other Bopomofo 0 / 38
Schematic overlaps; areas are not proportional to character counts.
Explore the counts & definitions

The selected CJK total combines the four Han tables, the JIS hiragana and katakana with ー・, Hangul syllables and basic Bopomofo, counting each code point once. Jamo, compatibility Han, other kana and other Bopomofo are listed separately.

“Simp Trad Shared” counts Unicode code points shared by the Simplified and Traditional Han reference sets. Shared code points can still have different regional glyph shapes, for example through OpenType locl; coverage does not imply identical glyphs.

Unicode 17. Counts use exact code points, with no variant-form or compatibility normalization. The Han map includes the 12 unified ideographs in the compatibility block; other compatibility ideographs are listed separately. “Only” means absent from the other three reference sets.

Taiwan: the 4,808 common and 6,343 less-common character tables. Mainland China: the 8,105 standard characters in three levels. Japan: the 2,965 JIS X 0208 Level 1 kanji. Korea: the unified Han subset of KS X 1001. The small lines under Taiwan and Mainland China show the common table (4,808) and Level 1 (3,500), which the Traditional and Simplified Chinese labels are judged on. The kana figure is the 83 hiragana and 86 katakana of JIS X 0208 plus ー and ・; rare, historical, extended and halfwidth kana are listed as other kana. Basic Bopomofo is the 37 letters U+3105–3129; dialect letters and the extended block are listed as other Bopomofo.

Shared & unique characters
Shared & unique charactersCovered / total
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han 0 / 4,8990%
Japanese Kanji ∩ Traditional Han 0 / 2,4950%
Japanese Kanji ∩ Simplified Han 0 / 1,9040%
Korean Han ∩ Traditional Han 0 / 4,2940%
Korean Han ∩ Simplified Han 0 / 2,7990%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Japanese Kanji 0 / 1,7710%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Korean Han 0 / 2,7330%
Traditional Han ∩ Simplified Han ∩ Japanese Kanji ∩ Korean Han 0 / 1,6980%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han 0 / 14,3570%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji 0 / 14,6940%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Korean Han 0 / 14,6170%
Traditional Han ∪ Simplified Han ∪ Japanese Kanji ∪ Korean Han 0 / 14,9010%
Traditional Han only 0 / 4,6380%
Simplified Han only 0 / 3,0280%
Japanese Kanji only 0 / 2840%
Korean Han only 0 / 2070%

Reference tables: Unicode 17 · FontPixel

CJK character totals

CJK unified ideographs 0 / 101,996 0.00%
Selected CJK, without duplicates 0 / 26,281 0.00%

Simplified Chinese · National standards

GB/T 2312 Hanzi 0 / 6,763 0.00%
GB/T 2312 Level 1 Hanzi 0 / 3,755 0.00%
GB/T 2312 Level 2 Hanzi 0 / 3,008 0.00%
GBK Hanzi 0 / 20,923 0.00%
GB/T 12345 Traditional Hanzi 0 / 6,866 0.00%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 3 0 / 88,115 0.00%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 2 0 / 27,780 0.00%
GB 18030-2022 Implementation Level 1 0 / 27,584 0.00%

Simplified Chinese · Language standards

Table of General Standard Chinese Characters 0 / 8,105 0.00%
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 1 0 / 3,500 0.00%
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 2 0 / 3,000 0.00%
General Standard Chinese Characters Level 3 0 / 1,605 0.00%
List of Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese 0 / 3,500 0.00%
Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (2500) 0 / 2,500 0.00%
Less Frequently Used Characters in Modern Chinese (1000) 0 / 1,000 0.00%
List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese 0 / 7,000 0.00%
Compulsory Education Chinese Character List 0 / 3,500 0.00%
Standard Glyph Forms for Ancient Book Printing 0 / 14,250 0.00%
Kangxi Radicals 0 / 214 0.00%
CJK Radicals Supplement 0 / 115 0.00%
Hanyi Simplified & Traditional Set 0 / 9,169 0.00%
FounderType Simplified & Traditional Set 0 / 9,664 0.00%

Traditional Chinese · Taiwan

Taiwan common and less-common Han (total) 0 / 11,151 0.00%
Standard Forms of Common National Characters 0 / 4,808 0.00%
Standard Forms of Less-Common National Characters 0 / 6,343 0.00%
Big5 All Hanzi 0 / 13,053 0.00%
Big5 Frequently Used Hanzi 0 / 5,401 0.00%
Big5 Less Frequently Used Hanzi 0 / 7,652 0.00%
Basic Bopomofo 0 / 37 0.00%
Other Bopomofo 0 / 38 0.00%

Traditional Chinese · Hong Kong

List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters 0 / 4,762 0.00%
Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set Hanzi 0 / 4,603 0.00%
Hong Kong Supplementary Characters in Common Use 0 / 1,102 0.00%

Japanese

JIS X 0208 Non-Kanji 158 / 524 30.15%
JIS X 0208 Level 1 Kanji 0 / 2,965 0.00%
JIS X 0208 Level 2 Kanji 0 / 3,390 0.00%
JIS X 0213 Level 3 Kanji 0 / 1,260 0.00%
JIS X 0213 Level 4 Kanji 0 / 2,397 0.00%
Joyo Kanji 0 / 2,136 0.00%
Kyoiku Kanji 0 / 1,026 0.00%
Jinmeiyo Kanji 0 / 864 0.00%
Hiragana & Katakana (JIS X 0208, with ー・) 0 / 171 0.00%
Hiragana 0 / 83 0.00%
Katakana 0 / 86 0.00%
Other kana 0 / 408 0.00%
Other Hiragana and Katakana block characters 0 / 18 0.00%
Kana extensions 0 / 327 0.00%
Halfwidth Katakana 0 / 63 0.00%
JIS X 0201 95 / 158 60.13%

Korean

Hangul Syllables (All Modern) 0 / 11,172 0.00%
KS X 1001 Hangul Syllables 0 / 2,350 0.00%
KS X 1001 Han (total) 0 / 4,888 0.00%
KS X 1001 unified Han 0 / 4,620 0.00%
KS X 1001 compatibility Han 0 / 268 0.00%
KS X 1001 Symbols 210 / 987 21.28%
Hangul Jamo, with extensions 0 / 451 0.00%
Hangul Compatibility Jamo 0 / 94 0.00%
Hangul Jamo · base block 0 / 256 0.00%
Hangul Jamo extensions A and B 0 / 101 0.00%
Unicode blocks(18)
Basic Latin 96 / 128 75.00%
Latin-1 Supplement 95 / 128 74.22%
Latin Extended-A 128 / 128 100%
IPA Extensions 59 / 96 61.46%
Combining Diacritical Marks 36 / 112 32.14%
Greek and Coptic 75 / 134 55.97%
Cyrillic 134 / 256 52.34%
Hebrew 45 / 88 51.14%
Greek Extended 128 / 230 55.65%
General Punctuation 19 / 111 17.12%
Currency Symbols 1 / 34 2.94%
Letterlike Symbols 7 / 80 8.75%
Arrows 6 / 112 5.36%
Mathematical Operators 25 / 256 9.77%
Box Drawing 44 / 128 34.38%
Geometric Shapes 6 / 96 6.25%
Miscellaneous Symbols 12 / 256 4.69%
Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A 2 / 48 4.17%

Glyph overview

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Downloads

obilic16-512 BDF 7.2 KB PCF 8.3 KB
obilic16-u BDF 12.8 KB PCF 14.7 KB
obilic18-512 BDF 7.7 KB PCF 8.6 KB
obilic18-u BDF 13.3 KB PCF 15.1 KB
Full family BDF ZIP obilic.zip 55.7 KB
Bitmap TTF obilic.ttf 83.7 KB
Vector TTF (square) obilic-18px-square.ttf 64.6 KB
Vector TTF (round) obilic-18px-round.ttf 275.2 KB
Web font (square) obilic-18px-square.woff2 14.6 KB
Web font (round) obilic-18px-round.woff2 12.3 KB

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