Overall, there are a number of advantages to using the Last Resort fonts for unrepresentable characters: For more information, see The Unicode Standard, Section 5.3, Unknown and Missing Characters. This provides users with the ability to more easily discern what type of character it is, and provides a clue as to what type of font they would need to display the characters properly. The glyphs of the Last Resort fonts are used as the backup of “last resort” to any other font: if a font cannot represent any particular Unicode character, the appropriate “missing” glyph from the Last Resort fonts is displayed instead. That of the Last Resort High-Efficiency font is a stub (aka empty) subtable. Therefore, this font, which is considerably smaller (500K) and with fewer glyphs (361), requires greater care when downloaded and installed.īoth fonts’ 'cmap' tables include a Format 4 ( Segment mapping to delta values) subtable, which is a Windows OS requirement. The file LastResortHE-Regular.ttf is a font named Last Resort High-Efficiency, and its 'cmap' table includes the more efficient-for this type of font- Format 13 ( Many-to-one range mappings) subtable that may not be supported in some environments, such as most Windows and Adobe apps.
Download and install this font if you are unsure which one to use. This font is 8MB and includes 5,352 glyphs. The file LastResort-Regular.ttf is a font named Last Resort, and its 'cmap' table includes a Format 12 ( Segmented coverage) subtable that is supported in virtually all modern environments. Although both fonts can be installed at the same time-because they have different names-you are encouraged to download and install only the one that is expected to work in the environments that you use: This repository includes two versions of the Last Resort font: Last Resort and Last Resort High-Efficiency.
Last Resort & Last Resort High-Efficiency These fonts may be updated for future versions of the Unicode Standard as time and resources permit. The latest pre-built binaries of the Last Resort fonts, which correspond to Unicode Version 15.0.0, can be easily downloaded from the Latest Release. The use of the Last Resort font is covered by the terms of the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 license. Unassigned (reserved for future assignment).In the PUA ( Private Use Area) for which no agreement exists.In which particular block a Unicode character is encoded.These glyphs are specifically designed to allow users to recognize that a code point is one of the following: Last Resort is a special-purpose font that includes a collection of glyphs to represent types of Unicode characters.
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