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Nowar Neo Sans

This is Nowar Neo Sans, font packs for World of Warcraft and WoW Classic that support all client languages. Nowar Neo Sans is based on Roboto and Source Han Sans.

Make Love, Not Warcraft.
要有爱，不要魔兽争霸。
要愛，不要魔獸。

Download the Fonts

Latest release at GitHub

Mirrors: Gitee (release repo)

Nowar Neo Sans is shipped in 4 weights and 5 regional variants, with several features.

Weights

• 300: Light
• 400: Regular
• 500: Medium
• 700: Bold

Regional Variants

Bliz and Neut are “standard variants” with regional Chinese character orthographies.

	European and 한국어	简体中文	繁體中文	Note
Bliz	Mainland China (UI)	Mainland China	Taiwan	Acts like WoW’s default fallback setting.
Neut	Classical (UI)	Mainland China	Taiwan	Prefers classical orthography on fallback.

CL is the “classical variant” with classical Chinese character orthography (aka Kāngxī Dictionary forms).

	European and 한국어	中文
CL	Classical (UI)	Classical

PSimp and PSimpChat are special variants for 繁體中文 that remap traditional Chinese character to simplified ones.

	Common Fonts	繁體中文 Text, Combat and Tooltip Fonts	繁體中文 Chat Fonts	European, 简体中文 and 한국어
PSimp	Mainland China (UI, Remapped)	Mainland China (Remapped)	Mainland China	N/A
PSimpChat	Mainland China (UI, Remapped)	Mainland China (Remapped)	Mainland China (Remapped)	N/A

• European: English, Español (AL), Português, Deutsch, Español (EU), Français, Italiano, and Русский.
• UI: Ambiguous punctations are treated as Western; CJK puctations are half-width.
• Common fonts: FRIZQT__ and ARIALN, which are hard-coded in some addons.

Features

Tag	Name	Description
OSF	Oldstyle	Oldstyle (non-lining), propotional figure.
RP	Roleplaying	丶 (U+4E36) is mapped to the same glyph as · (U+00B7, MIDDLE DOT).
SC	Smallcaps	Small capitals for Latin.

Pre-built feature variants: Bliz,OSF, Bliz,RP, Bliz,SC.

How to Build

Dependencies

• basic Unix utils,
• Python,
• otfcc,
• otfcc-q2c and
• 7-Zip (add to PATH).

Note:

• Choose 64-bit version if possible. 32-bit version may lead to out-of-memory issue.

Build Feature Variant

Prepare submodules:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Run configure.py to generate Makefile:

python configure.py

Put Source Han Sans OTF files (all families but HW) and Subset OTF files (if you need GB variant) to source/shs/

Then make a specific variant:

make <region>,<features>-<weight> -j<threads>

Note: Features must be sorted alphabetically. (OSF, RP, SC).

e.g.

make CN,OSF,RP-400 -j4

The output is out/NowarNeoSans-<region>,<features>-<weight>-<version>.7z.

Create Regional Variant

To build exactly what you need, modify configure.py:

class Config:
    # put your variant here
    fontPackRegion = [ <your_region> ]

# define the variant here.
regionalVariant = { ... }

For example, the “CNmulti” multi-orthography variant,

	European	简体中文	繁體中文	한국어
CNmulti	Mainland China (UI)	Mainland China	Taiwan	S. Korea (UI)

class Config:
    fontPackRegion = [ "CNmulti" ]

regionalVariant = {
    "CNmulti": {
        "base": "CN",
        "enUS": True,
        "ruRU": True,
        "zhCN": "CN",
        "zhTW": "TW",
        "koKR": "KR",
    }
}

Then, run python configure.py to generate Makefile. The new regional variant (with optional feature) can be built by:

make <region>,<features>-<weight> -j<threads>

e.g.

make CNmulti-400 -j4
make CNmulti,OSF-400 -j4

Credit

Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters are from Roboto by Google.

CJK Ideographs, Kana and Hangul are from Source Han Sans by Adobe.

The traditional Chinese to simplified Chinese conversion table is from Open Chinese Convert project.