Alien::Font::Uni(3)

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version 0.3 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 Alien::Font::Uni(3) 💖

okay bestie, this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation and it's literally the whole vibe. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're doing fonts today.

✨ NAME ✨

Alien::Font::Uni — your little backstage pass to the Unifont truetype file. access, unlocked. 🔑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the whole thing in four lines, no cap:

use Alien::Font::Uni;

my $path = Alien::Font::Uni::get_path();
my $vstring = Alien::Font::Uni::font_vstring();
my $string  = Alien::Font::Uni::font_version();

three function calls and you're done, we love a low-effort slay. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the lore: this module was made as an optional dependency of Chart, because Chart wanted access to a unicode complete scaleable font file and honestly? valid.

that's why it only ships the .ttf file — because that's the format GD can actually read. it's giving "i brought exactly one thing to the party and it's the thing you needed." 🎀

also, heads up: distros might redirect to pre-existing resources, so the file you get might be the one already chillin' on your system. iykyk. 🌈

👑 FONT 👑

the font in question, in full, no edits:

Unifont 15, Copyright(c) 1998 - 2022 by Roman Czyborra, Paul Hardy and contributors - Licensed under OFL 1.1

iconic lineage honestly, 1998 to 2022, that's a legacy. 👑

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Herbert Breunung (lichtkind@cpan.org) — thank you for your service, king. 🫶

Copyright(c) 2022 by Herbert Breunung

All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

fr fr, same terms as Perl itself — go wild, but respect the terms, bestie. no funny business. 💀

and that's the whole page, you ate that. 🍽️✨

signing off with the footer deets: this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and the page itself is Alien::Font::Uni(3). periodt. 💖🎀🦋

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