Kay Pho Du

Kay Pho Du is a font family for the Kayah Li script of Southeast Asia

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Kay Pho Du–A flexible Kayah Li Font Family

Kay Pho Du is a free and open Kayah Li font family for all of the writing systems that use this Southeast Asian script. Four weights are included: Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold. Also included in the download package are WOFF and WOFF2 versions of the fonts for use with web pages.

In addition to the full Unicode range of Kayah Li characters (U+A900..U+A92F), all the weights of this Kayah Li font package have a set of basic Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols.

The Kayah Li script was devised in 1962 and blends features of both Brahmic and Latin writing systems. It is an alphabetic writing system, with separate vowels and consonants. In Kayah Li, vowels are written using individual letters or diacritics above consonants. Tones are written below the consonant. The script also has its own distinctive digits.

Script

The letters of the Kayah Li script bear some similarities to those from other regional scripts, but are unique in form and function.

Languages

This font can be used to write a continuum of Karenni (Red Karen) languages and dialects spread out among multiple countries. These include the major Western Kayah and Eastern Kayah varieties.

Unicode

Kay Pho Du supports the full range of Kayah Li symbols in The Unicode Standard, including script-specific numerals and punctuation.

Common questions

How is the font different from Karenni?

Kay Pho Du is a freshly-drawn, new design based on the overall design of Karenni. Although the design is meant to be very similar to Karenni it is not identical and does not include any of the original outlines. Because of that, many of the glyphs are slightly different and the metrics are not the same. Many glyphs have also been added.

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