GNU Unifont

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GNU Unifont (referred to in Java Edition as uniform) is a font used by Minecraft, primarily as a fallback option for when characters are not defined in the default game font.

This is a fallback font to support characters not defined in Mojangles, such as CJK and Tamil characters. When the "Force Unicode Font" option in Font Settings is ON in Java Edition, it is the only font used by default.

It references unifont.zip.

The .json file with the pointer to the location of minecraft/font/unifont.zip in .minecraft/assets/objects is located at .minecraft/assets/indexes/5.json, or a higher numbered .json file, like /25.json.

Also located in the same file is the pointer the location of minecraft/font/unifont_jp.zip.

unifont.zip

This contains the "unihex" characters. Inside of it are 2 files: a copy of the GNU General Public License version 2, and unifont_all_no_pua-16.0.03.hex. The latter file is a copy of GNU Unifont 16.0.03 and contains glyph definitions for 114,398 characters.

• GNU Unifont on Wikipedia