I stumbled upon the following article A Number System Invented by Inuit Schoolchildren Will Make Its Silicon Valley Debut which I found fascinating so my first thought was to build it into a website.
The Kaktovik numerals or Kaktovik Iñupiaq numerals[1] are a base-20 system of numerical digits created by Alaskan Iñupiat. They are visually iconic, with shapes that indicate the number being represented.
I went looking for a font and some SVGs and displayed them on the page, my initial attempt:
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🔗 Links
- A Number System Invented by Inuit Schoolchildren Will Make Its Silicon Valley Debut
- Unicode® 15.0.0
- Unicode request for Kaktovik numerals
- Kaktovik Numerals - Unicode v15
- Kaktovik numerals
- Help:Multilingual support - Kaktovik numerals
- GNU Unifont
Fonts
Unifont 15.0
- 13 September 2022 (Unifont 15.0.01)
- Unicode Plane 1
- Paul Hardy added new glyphs in these ranges:
- U+1D2C0..U+1D2DF Kaktovik Numerals*
- Paul Hardy added new glyphs in these ranges:
- Unicode Plane 1
*New in Unicode 15.0.0.
- http://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-15.0.01/unifont-15.0.01.bmp
- http://unifoundry.com/pub/unifont/unifont-15.0.01/unifont_plane1-15.0.01.bmp
Font Downloads
The standard font build — with and without the ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) / Under-CSUR Private Use Area (PUA) glyphs. Download in your favorite format:
OpenType:
- The Standard Unifont OpenType Download: unifont-15.0.01.otf (5 Mbytes)
- Glyphs above the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane: unifont_upper-15.0.01.otf (1 Mbyte)
TrueType:
- The Standard Unifont TTF Download: unifont-15.0.01.ttf (12 Mbytes)
- Glyphs above the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane: unifont_upper-15.0.01.ttf (2 Mbytes)
GS Unicode 2.0 (Plane 1)