In the open-source world, there are two main choices for PCB design: KiCad and gEDA. But if you’re tired of the boring Hershey fonts telling you which resistor is which, or if you need to comply with ISO 3098, there’s one clear choice: PCB-RND, the improved fork of gEDA’s PCB tool. Why?
Because PCB-RND now supports osifont, which supports a ridiculous number of languages. In addition to the usual suspects, like Azerbaijani through Vietnamese, support has also been added for legacy users, including those of Middle Earth, who build PCBs that can only be read when the thrush knocks by the setting sun of the last light on Durin’s Day.
And they haven’t stopped there. Looking forward to the Treaty of Organia in 2267, you can now create PCBs that are fully plqaD-HaSta compliant.
We’re glad to see these important steps made toward reaching out to underserved PCB-constructing communities. However, we’re appalled at the continuing lack of support for Rihannsu. This will have to be rectified by anyone who wants to push their projects in the Beta Quadrant.
These are some really impressive fonts they got there, but they totally misspelled the greek word for “support” in their preview image :D Nevertheless, nice work!
Russian is messed up too.
multilingual spelling and grammar checking is planned for the April 1, 2018, milestone release.
I always wanted to be able mark my PCB’s using the ‘dancing man’ font as referenced by Sherlock Homes
if you can provide a link to the ‘dancing man’ font in either ttf or svg format…. you never know what might materialise on EDAkrill for use in PCB-RND….
I’ll just leave this here
https://discoveringegypt.com/egyptian-hieroglyphic-writing/hieroglyphic-typewriter/
I’m not sure what they’d use for the “Ohm” symbol and others since this predates the Greek alphabet.
If you can provide the font in some common format (e.g. ttf) with some permissive license, we can convert it.
Use a fixed-width font and draw dancing men with ASCII art.
Or do like me and convert text to binary then replace 0’s and 1’s with two brand names of the same company, e.g. Abercrombie/Hollister or Atmel/Microchip.
I need the Black Speech, for an advanced 802.11n network topology proof of concept, that’s an ARM based ring controller.
I think IBM have already tried Tolkein ring… in the 80’s IIRC.
Ah but using the physical limitations of cabling, not wireless.
Since Romulus is firmly inside the Alpha quadrant, why would developers need a Rihannsu font for anything in the Beta quadrant?
Because cultural misappropriation is cool, especially when it’s interstellar.
tu’HomI’raH SoH net Sov wo’ petaQ.
Have they added support for the One True Font yet, Comic Sans?
I used to have a very limited proclivity toward using Comic Sans…. until I came to realise just how much some people are irritated by it.
So where is Braille….
If you do a search on edakrill, you’ll find it:
http://repo.hu/projects/edakrill/user/igor2/font/braille.krill.tar.gz
What about Kzinti?
An excellent question; as it turns out, Kzinti is available from:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/erichVK5/outlineFont2centrelineFont/master/kzinti-v1.lht