project : Queer Unicode Initiative (QUNI)

Queer Unicode Initiative (QUNI)

description

The Bye Bye Binary collective has created a type library whose fonts feature numerous glyphs (mutant letters, ligatures, symbiosis elements) in addition to the midpoint and other solutions regularly used to write and compose inclusive texts.

Our keyboards don't (yet) contain the keys corresponding to these characters. So, to make this rainbow of signs usable by everyone, Bye Bye Binary is building common practices, soft, raging and fine-tuned standards, which together form the Queer Unicode Initiative (QUNI). QUNI brings together their fonts, with all the diversity they contain, around a single encoding system for use by a wide audience.

QUNI has been developed : - So that font users can access and use inclusive glyphs in their texts in a way that is compatible between different fonts; - So that font designers can place glyphs in common Unicode boxes; - So that the same font designers can use opentype features already coded, or add their own according to a shared logic.