Credits & Licenses

Unicode Viewer is a thin UI over decades of careful work by many people. The fonts, data tables, and specifications that make accurate CJK variant rendering possible are listed below.

Fonts

JigmoVersion: 2025-09-12 (implements IVD 2025-07-14)

By: Koichi Kamichi and GlyphWiki contributors

Base CJK glyphs and every Ideographic Variation Sequence registered in Unicode IVD 2025-07-14 — including hard-to-find variants like 邉 E011E (Hanyo-Denshi TK01090330). Using a single typeface for every IVS means overlays in this tool compare structural differences rather than type-design drift. Glyphs are generated from GlyphWiki via the KAGE system.

License: CC0 1.0 (Public Domain Dedication)

By: Adobe

Primary SVS (U+FE00-U+FE0F) source — supplies the U+FE01 "centered" variants of CJK punctuation (、︁ 。︁ etc.) used in vertical writing, which Jigmo does not include.

License: SIL Open Font License 1.1

By: Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA)

Secondary SVS overlay layered after Source Han Serif to fill any Moji_Joho-specific SVS entries SHS does not cover.

License: IPA Font License v1.0

By: Google / Noto Project

Mathematical operator base glyphs (∩ ∪ ∅ etc.) and their U+FE00 SVS variants — Jigmo and the CJK fonts don't cover the U+22xx range, so Noto Sans Math is merged in for both the bare characters and their serif variants.

License: SIL Open Font License 1.1

By: Vercel

UI body and monospace typefaces.

License: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Data & Specifications

By: The Unicode Consortium

Code point names, categories, blocks, grapheme break properties, and standardized variation sequences (SVS).

License: Unicode License

By: Ideographic Research Group (IRG) / Unicode Consortium

IRG source flags (J/G/T/K) showing which CJK characters come from which national sources.

License: Unicode License

By: The Unicode Consortium

Registered IVS sequences across Adobe-Japan1, Hanyo-Denshi, and Moji_Joho collections.

License: Unicode License

By: WHATWG

Legacy encoding indices (Shift_JIS / GBK / Big5 / EUC-KR and ~20 more) as used by modern browsers.

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

By: IPA / Moji Joho Kiban Project

MJ number assignments and the Moji_Joho IVD collection.

License: CC BY-SA 2.1 JP

Thanks

We are deeply grateful to the Information-technology Promotion Agency of Japan, Adobe Type, the Unicode Consortium, WHATWG, the Moji Jōhō Kiban Project, Koichi Kamichi, and the hundreds of volunteer contributors at GlyphWiki and elsewhere. This tool is only as useful as the work they have made freely available.