 Dihjau version 1.0.0

Author/designer: T. Christopher White (I & O Media)
You can contact me, if you have suggestions, find problems or know how to fix them, et cetera, at: amenemsu@gmail.com

Dihjau /di:.'hjau: | dee.'hyow/, is predominantly based off Dwiggin's Electra with shades of Fairfield, and Perpetua. It is modern and stately, and like its inspirers, it has broad counters and spacing, which temper it and give it warmth, making it comfortable and well-suited for longer texts. It is balanced in all aspects, from its punctuation to its reference marks and symbols. The italic incorporates a touch of Arrighi. It includes all transcription systems relevant to the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets, as well as standard Coptic, plus extra characters for Teuthonista and First Nation. It also includes, to list a few, Egyptian-styled pictographs (where applicable), a plethora of mathematical symbols and arrows, and a number of alternatives in the PUA. This is the redrawn, now more text-like, bolder version of Dehuti/Dehjuti/Dihjauti.


Notes: 1) The superscript characters, modifier letters, and the numerators, are all part of the superscript table. 2) The bold versions of the font have some alternative/reversed characters; I did this because there is no difference in the math or punctuation symbols, i.e., the bold versions are not actually bold (with exceptions), which gives the font a better harmony. 3) The font uses anchors, which means that it will not align properly for linguistic use, or otherwise, without opentype. 4) For those interested, Open or Libre Office can access all glyphs using: Insert > Special Character.

Dihjau includes:

• Latin, Greek, Coptic, and Cyrillic.
• Redesigned click consonants that have accompanying uppercase versions in the PUA
• Redesigned edh and Esh.
• Extended punctuation. I placed the Teuthonista double bar on (2E3F). For those unfamiliar with the “reversed” question mark (2E2E), it is used for ironic or sarcastic statements. My design combines the two most popular forms for this glyph into one.
• All relevant (language specific) currency symbols, including the newest additions.
• Fractions, as well as most math symbols, arrows (with horizontal extenders in the PUA), geometric shapes, and pictographs, with some alternative/reversed designs in the bold versions.
• Latin superscript (includes modifier letters and numerators), subscript, and denominators, which are ordered as listed.
• Old style numbers, which are followed by the tabular styles of both.
• Redesigned velar, palatal and retroflex characters; I included these if anyone may wish to use them, though they are, with a few exceptions, deprecated.
• IPA, NAPA, UPA, & Teuthonista (Combining Diacritical Marks Extended, Latin Extended-E, plus extras in the PUA [E6C4 – E6D5]); now with Latin Extended-F & -G, and Cyrillic Extended-D.
• SIL additions: 1) Modifier letter small capital barred u (F1CD); 2) Retroflex D with hook (F20D), counterpart to (1D91); 3) German dictionary small capital I + schwa and Latin upsilon + schwa (F258 & F259); 4) bilabial trilled b (F26D), with added capital (E0E7); 5) Cyrillic capital and small Ghe with stroke and descender (F326 & F327).
• Small mathematical operators that correlate with vector or cross product (2A2F), plus fullwidth mathematical operators that correlate with multiplication X (2715). Now included are the remainder of the heavy versions accompanying the cross mark, or times (274C): plus, minus, division (2795 - 2797), and equals (1F7F0).
• Medieval, extra script, fraktur and double-struck letters, as well as raised MC, MD, MR, Wz, and more pictographs.
• A number of alternatives in the PUA with opentype extensions.


These are my additions:

• (02BC) is a spacing clone of 0315, which should be used with As or Lambdas.
• (20E7), the combining annuity symbol, is meant to attach to ‘a’, and be used with subscript letters.
• (221B), cube root, is a negative-spaced radical for use with superscript/modifier letters, numbers, et cetera. Type a letter/number, then 221B. 
• Concerning the enclosed alphanumerics: The bold version has Mayan numbers, which are: 1 – 5, plus 8 (space), and 11 – 15, plus 18 (space); these are the initial numbers. The secondary, or right half circles, are: 1 – 7, plus 10, and 11 – 17, plus 20, with 10 and 20 being zero. The 8/18 space is for writing larger numbers, e.g., twenty would be 1-8-10, or 11-18-20 for black. Twenty-two would be 1-8-2, et cetera.
• Alternative form for (2A00), or n-ary circled dot operator, which is in the bold version; this character is part of the set of enclosed black dots/circles that get progressively larger: 2299, 2A00, 29BF, 1F78A, 25C9. White circles: 229A, 29BE, 25CE.
• Latin small letter um (A778) is designed to combine with either i, for German usage, or u, for Latin.
• (A79A & A79B, plus A79E & A79F): I placed new characters in these spots, normally used for Volapük. They are short-stroked Alphas and U's for use in American phonetics alphabets.
• (A7A0 - A7A9) have been redesigned with a horizontal bar, to be used with other characters that have this feature. The initial slant was a result of how they were written in Fraktur, i.e., with an angled broad nib.
• Latin Yeris (0184 & 0185), i.e., the Latin tone six letters. This letter, used with Janalif, is the equivalent of Latin letter dotless I.
• Triple diacritic marks, which anchor to the center character: circumflex (1AFC), inverted breve (1AFD), breve below (1AFE), tilde below (1AFF)
• Circled Logical And and Logical Or, which are in the bold version
• Mathematical exclamation mark (2757), i.e., the heavy exclamation mark

PUA additions: The majority of these are located in 'salt' and 'ss01' (for use with photoshop or other programs where the 'salt' table may not work). Individual or group characters are in 'cv' tables. The .cap characters are the 'case' table. The characters with added diacritics, such as B/G with tilde, and Y with ogonek, are in the ligature table, as well as the exclamation and question mark with commas, et cetera.

•ss02: Alternative Cyrillic versions of italic d.

• Question, exclamation, interrobang, and reversed question marks with commas; type a comma followed by an exclamation mark, question mark, interrobang, reversed question mark (2E2E), or wiggly exclamation mark.
• cv01: Alternative Latin glyphs with x-height anchors. These are: b, d, h, k, p, q, and þ.
• cv02: ogonek, reverse cedilla-styled
• cv03: ogonek, angular-styled
• cv04: Alternative 7 (glottal stop) for indigenous languages
• cv05: (A7DC/019B) alternative Tl/tl
• cv06: (026C) alternative belted l
• cv07: (02C0) angular glottal modifier
• cv08: ae, (A737 [au]), oe, (1D6B [ue]). Additional joined vowels for American phonetic alphabets.
• cv09: AB30, AB33, 1DF41, 0268, 0249, A74B, and 0289. Teuthonista joining vowels.
• Bilabial trill B, counterpart to the SIL addition (F2D6).
• cv10: Alternative barred b (018A).
• cv11: Alternative modifier letters (1D5D, 1D66, 1DFD2 [regular and bold], 10793, 10791, and 1DB9).
• Barred digraphs for use with th (1D7A): (E117, E132, E570, and E6A9).
• cv12: Alternative c with palatal hook (A794), and z (1D8E).
• cv13: Alternative D/d with cedilla (1E10/1E11).
• cv14: Alternative African D with bar (018A).
• cv15: Alternative Croation, or barred D/d.
• cv16: Alternative d with caron.
• cv17: Alternative schwa, or stemless E (018F). For use in American phonetic alphabets.
• cv18: Alternative open E/e (0190/025B).
• cv19: Alternative hooked g (0260) — linguistic use.
• cv20: Alternative Teuthonista g with stroked tail (AB36), and m and n with curled legs for Lithuanian (AB3A/AB3B).
• cv21: Alternative seriffed baby gamma (0264), for use with American phonetic alphabets.
• H with line below (E282), counterpart to (1E96)
• cv22: Alternative barred H
• cv23: Alternative Cyrillic shhas (04BB/0527).
• cv24: Alternative L/l with carons.
• cv25: Alternative Welsh Ll/ll (1EFA/1EFB) — This form is the more common design.
• cv26: Alternative retroflex N (019D)
• cv27: Alternative Eng; (A790 & A791) are also alternative Engs, originally used with Janalif.
• cv28: Alternative Greek Omegas (03A9 and Omegatonos)
• cv29: Greek OU ligature; alternative of (0222)
• cv30: Latin OU/ou; these are alternatives of (A74E/A74F), i.e., the double oo.
• cv31: Alternative p with hook
• cv32: Alternative Qs (Q, A756, A758, and A7AF)
• Turned retroflex R, counterpart to (027B)
• cv33: Alternative prescription take; this character is for Latin.
• cv34: Alternative retroflex R (2C64)
• cv35: Alternative esh (0283)
• T with diaeresis, counterpart to (1E97)
• cv36: Alternative Thorn; in my opinion, this form better harmonizes with the rest of the capitals.
• cv37: Cyrillic Che/che with tail (04B6/04B7)
• cv38: Alternative t with caron.
• cv39: Alternative V/v with hook (01B2/028B)
• V with right hook, counterpart to (2C71)
• W with ring above, counterpart to (1E98)
• Y with ring above, counterpart to (1E99)
• cv40: Alternative turned H/h (A78D/0265); i.e., the equivalent of ÿ. I took the liberty of literally adding a tail to 'u', which is how the character evolved from Medieval Latin.
• cv41: Alternative Cyrillic Yu/yu (afii10048/afii10096)
• cv42: Alternative script z (1D4CF/1D503)
• cv43: Alternative divide and logical not hyphens — these match the actual hyphens.
• cv44: Alternative spacing modifier tone marks for chinantec.

• Alternative triple vertical bar delimiter for mathematical use (2980); the normal position for the glyph is the lowercase triple click.
• Capital click consonants (E6AE – E6B3)
• Tonal glyphs (E6B8 – E6BF)
• Extra combining characters for Teuthonista (E6C4 – E6CF); superscript/modifier letter combining diaeresis (E6D1); combining dotless i (E6D2), small double parenthses (E6D4 & E6D5)
• Modifier letter Theta for First Nation languages (E733)
• Additional drafting characters: (E7AA – E7AE).
• Alternative drachma (E7B8), mil (E7B9), pfennig (E7BA), and Nordic sign (E7BB)
• Additional combining forms (boots) for Medieval Latin: (E7BC – for use with f and ſ); (E7BD – for use with i, k, u, and other right-serifed glyphs.)
• Additional combing marks (E7C2 – E7C4): Saurashtra candrabindu (used in India), and a combined haček and comma above for First Nation languages.
• Alternative divide-styled hyphen (E7C4)
• Alternative ampersands (E7C5 & E7C6)
• Additional characters for drafting (E7C8 - E7CB), which are in the regular version.
• Alternative house (E7CC); this style is a typical Egyptian house, i.e., this is an image, whereas the original is the hieroglyph.
• Alternative “sun” — white sun with rays (263C), or compass (E7CF); the bold version has an alternative compass.
• Alternative spacing modifier tone marks for chinantec (E7D0 – E7D3)
• Combining double breve, macron, tilde, inverted breve, circumflex, and ni for capitals (E7D4 – E7D9)
• Combining “def” and question mark for math (E7DB & E7DC); regular version.
• Alternative daggers for math (E7DD & E7DE); these characters correlate with (2BD2), which is the triple dagger, i.e., the "group mark".
• Combining overline extenders for use with the long division or radical glyph (E7F6 – E7F9).
• Reversed summations (E7E2 & E7E3); regular and bold versions.
• Alternative Gradient/Nabla (E7E4)
• Reversed radical (E7E5)
• Merged product and co-product (E7E6); type product, then co-product, i.e., (220F & 2210).
• Large combining glyphs (E7E7 – E7E9)
• (E7EF): Dihjau (ibis) icon; reversed in the bold version
• Alternative circled equals (E7F3); this is part of the group of circled symbols for licensing, the others being: (1F10D – 1F12C, 1F12F, and 1F16D – 1F16F).
• (E7F4): Restart button; an addition to the other power symbols (23FB – 23FE).
• (E7F5): eye of Rijaa (Sun) icon; the bold version is the reversed eye of Hjoru (sky) icon.
• (E7FA) is the inverse version of (1F5F9).
• Extended capital joiners: (E7D4 — E7D9)
• Battery charging glyphs for use with 1F50B & 1FAAB (E800 – E806).
• Connecting arrow extensions, additions to (23AF), horizontal line extension, i.e., the connecting right pointing arrow extension. (E807 – E80B): open middle joiners; (E80C – E80F): additional arrow tails/starters; (E810): double right pointing arrow connector (double of 23AF); (E811 & E812): left pointing connectors; (E813 & E814): left-right joiners; (E815 & E816): centered extensions; (E817 – E81E): extra tails/starters. All of these can be used with the hyphen, en, and em dashes, or arrows, pictographs, et cetera, to create decorative elements.
• Alternate logical not hyphen (E81F).
• Extended Cyrillic vzmets & titlos (E84A – E84E). The triple titlo anchors to the center character.
• Alternative combining Cyrillic (Serbian and Macedonian) letters (E84F [regular version], E84F – E853 [Italic])
• (E85A – E881): decorative elements that can be used with the arrows, et cetera
• (E88A – E88D): decorative joiner elements (these are negative spaced on both ends)
• (E88E – E891): extra center decorative elements
• (E89A – E89D): decorative endings (right joins followed by left joins)
• Low tilde (EB67)
• Additional SIL characters: modifier barred small capital U; capital retroflex barred D, counterpart to (1D91); modifier small capital I with schwa, and upsilon with schwa (dictionary usage); bilabial b; and, barred Ghe/ghe with descender.
• Mayan tabular numbers (F2E0 – F2F3).

• The small and fullwidth characters are for use with math: (FE55), the small colon has no spacing, and is designed to be used with the hair space (200A).
• (1F701 - 1F704, & 1F747), part of a set with (2721) Star of David.
• (1F7F0), the heavy equals sign, accompanies (274C, and 2975 – 2797).
• (1FBBF), is the black version of (26CB).



