Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

MUFI was founded in July 2001 by a workgroup consisting of Odd Einar Haugen (Bergen), Alec McAllister (Leeds), and Tarrin Wills (Sydney).

In medieval texts, many special ligatures, scribal abbreviations, and letter forms existed, which are no longer a part of the Latin alphabet.

Since few fonts support medieval ligatures or alternative letter forms, it is difficult to transmit them reliably in digital formats.

To prevent the possibility of corruption of the source texts, the eventual goal of the MUFI is to create a consensus on which characters to encode, and then present a completed proposal to the Unicode Consortium.

This was originally based upon work done by the TITUS project, which also deals with Greek, Cyrillic, Georgian, Arabic and Devanagari characters.

[8] UNZ is a set of glyphs used in German blackletter fonts, their typographic ligatures in particular, compatible with MUFI.

Additionally, it provides some glyph variants needed for the representation of some historic German handwriting styles, using the PUA code points F4F7…F4F8 and F500…F517.