Published Jan 17th, 1/17/25 2:19 am
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Preface
With new versions of Minecraft, sometimes unexpected pleasant surprises come with them. One such surprise which eluded me until recent was the use of _more_ Unicode symbols being appropriated to represent entirely different text styles for chatting and literary purposes.With the release of 1.20, came some neat changes to built-in fonts, designed to ignite the imagination while writing. Unfortunately, being so hidden that even an avid writer like myself could miss it until 1.21.4 means that you probably know nothing about it now. Let's fix that.
Recollection
As it's been awhile since I wrote anything about this, a refresher; when I first started this written series of information articles about writing in Minecraft, options for fonts were fairly limited. There were options, but they were either small letters (which Vanilla Tweaks, through Compliance managed to goof before I brought the issue up) and serif fonts, which were created with full-width lettering. Now, we have significantly more options than prior.
Below, are test samples provided for your enjoyment to observe:
![[≥1.20] Write Better Books — Serif reprise, and new fonts.](https://i.imgur.com/tbei22k.png)
![[≥1.20] Write Better Books — Serif reprise, and new fonts.](https://i.imgur.com/6ce0Efb.png)
Modified Mojangles in use: Compliance Font+
Admittedly, some of these Unicode selections had been around since late, but the new serif and machine-readable font selections are brand new to 1.20. Fonts with bold variations have Unicode characters which provide a bold alternative without the need to use special formatting, as-provided by mods such as Book Formatting.
Absent Minecraft formatting, here are the fonts used for the samples above:
Serif
𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚔 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚡 𝚓𝚞𝚖𝚙𝚜 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚣𝚢 𝚍𝚘𝚐
Math Sans
𝖳𝗁𝖾 𝗊𝗎𝗂𝖼𝗄 𝖻𝗋𝗈𝗐𝗇 𝖿𝗈𝗑 𝗃𝗎𝗆𝗉𝗌 𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗋 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗅𝖺𝗓𝗒 𝖽𝗈𝗀
Fraktur
𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔮𝔲𝔦𝔠𝔨 𝔟𝔯𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔣𝔬𝔵 𝔧𝔲𝔪𝔭𝔰 𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔞𝔷𝔶 𝔡𝔬𝔤
Double-struck
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜 𝕓𝕣𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕗𝕠𝕩 𝕛𝕦𝕞𝕡𝕤 𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕒𝕫𝕪 𝕕𝕠𝕘
Script
𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓺𝓾𝓲𝓬𝓴 𝓫𝓻𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓯𝓸𝔁§ 𝓳𝓾𝓶𝓹𝓼 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓪𝔃𝔂 𝓭𝓸𝓰
Small (Latin) capitals
ᴛʜᴇ ꞯᴜɪᴄᴋ ʙʀᴏᴡɴ ꜰᴏx ᴊᴜᴍᴘꜱ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀᴢʏ ᴅᴏɢ
As you can see, the style rendered doesn't exactly line up with the Unicode shown. But that's okay, because it's in-line with the spirit of Minecraft. As for where to generate these lovely fonts, I often use Fancy Text Generator courtesy of LingoJam, but there are other, numerous text style editors which will provide math sans, fraktur and other fonts as-shown. The only thing LingoJam's tool lacks is small capital Latin Q.
There is one issue with some of these fonts; writing with them in signs may yield problems. But beyond that, their use in chat and books so far appear to have their spacing unaffected.
Now you understand the fancy new fonts in Minecraft, get out there and start writing some better books, today!
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