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Fonts That Support the Creative Commons Unicode Symbols
As of Unicode 13.0 (released in March 2020), the character set has included glyphs representing Creative Commons licenses.
- 1F16D - The Creative Commons logo (🅭)
- 1F10D - CC0, the public domain dedication (🄍)
- 1F16F - Attribution (🅯)
- 1F10E - Share-Alike ()
- 1F10F - Non-Commercial ()
The No-Derivatives symbol uses the preexisting 229C (⊜), Circled Equals.
Most people can probably already see the problem/question. After four years, I can't find any fonts that have the five glyphs at those code-points. Chances are, everybody sees the CC logo as a box containing "1F16D," for example, instead of CC in a circle.
While I understand (and share) the reluctance to add trademarks to the Unicode standard, I do use and refer to Creative Commons licenses enough that I would like to use the now-standard symbols when I refer to a work released under a CC BY-SA license. However, I can't find any fonts that do this.
Plenty of icon fonts exist, such as Font Awesome, but they use Private Use Areas for those glyphs rather than the standardized code-points, and that would also require changing fonts to insert them into a document, since they don't have alphabetic characters. And at that point, we might as well insert inline images into the text, since that doesn't require carrying around a massive font.
Therefore, getting to the actual question in the title, does anybody know of fonts (ideally OFL or similarly licensed) that cover these symbols in their proper locations? Related, do we not have these symbols everywhere in a quiet act of protest against Unicode's inclusion of the symbols, like the griping about certain newer emoji?
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You can use the command line tool albatross (https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/albatross/) to find out which of the fonts you already have on your system, contain a given symbol.
For example, on my system:
albatross 🅭 🄍 🅯 🄎 🄏
__ __ __
.---.-.| | |--.---.-.| |_.----.-----.-----.-----.
| _ || | _ | _ || _| _| _ |__ --|__ --|
|___._||__|_____|___._||____|__| |_____|_____|_____|
Unicode glyphs with code points [1F16D], [1F10D], [1F16F], [1F10E], [1F10F]
mapping to [🅭, 🄍, 🅯, 🄎, 🄏] (AND search)
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Font name │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ .LastResort │
│ Fira Code Bold │
│ Fira Code Medium │
│ Fira Code Regular │
│ Fira Code Retina │
│ Fira Code SemiBold │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
which shows that Fira Code font has the glyphs. Testing them in a document indeed shows the symbols:
You can get the font from https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode (licensed under OFL-1.1 license).
The easiest way to install albatross is probably via a tex distribution like texlive or miktex. Alternatively, you could try to directly download the .jar file from CTAN (https://ctan.org/tex-archive/support/albatross/scripts).
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