Rawnd Musmus Duployan

An OpenType Unicode font for Duployan shorthand.

Duployan is a shorthand used for French, English, Romanian, Chinook Jargon, and many other languages. Rawnd Musmus Duployan is a technical proof of concept for all of Duployan’s features that is also suitable for practical use.

Installation

Download the latest version. You can also download a development build from the latest workflow run.

The font demo is an online keyboard app that lets you type in Duployan. It is useful for testing the font without installing it locally and for use as a Duployan IME.

The third-party article “How to get the Chinuk Pipa font” has further advice about installing the font that might be helpful.

Features

Rawnd Musmus Duployan has full support for Unicode Duployan:

• All characters in the Duployan and Shorthand Format Controls blocks
• Contextual forms and cursive joining
• Shaded characters
• Overlapping characters
• Non-Duployan characters used with Duployan, such as digits and punctuation

There are multiple variants of the font, including:

• Rawnd Musmus Duployan: the main font
• Rawnd Musmus Duployan Uncow: the font with cursive joining removed
• Noto Sans Duployan: the font with modifications for the Noto font project

See the user guide for more information.

Building

See the developer documentation for how to build the fonts from source.