How

From Base42

Contents 1 Base42 Font 1.1 Font Concepts 2 Things you can do 2.1 Code 3 Things that need to be done

[edit] Base42 Font

I made a quick and ugly font for the Base42 glyphs. Since there I could not find unicode characters designated for hexadecimal digits, I hijacked the roman numerals.

Base42 Font based on Freefont sans unicode. (Try cutting and pasting this once it's installed:ⅡⅢⅣⅤⅥⅦⅧⅨⅩⅪⅫⅬⅭⅮⅯ)

[edit] Font Concepts

Here are some concepts on how to render the glyphs.

Handwritten

Discrete

Clean

7-Segment Display

[edit] Things you can do

• Convert from base₁₀ to base₁₆ & base_4²

[edit] Code

Conversion to and from other bases in various programming languages. The code here is generalized as follows:

• Real numbers are converted to the specified heximal place.
• Where possible, arbitrary bases are supported.
• Conversion supports any Unicode character for each digit.

• C#
• C
• Ruby
• VB.NET

[edit] Things that need to be done

• Unicode support & Font creation (consider leveraging STIX)
• Convert scientific units into base42