[2] It was originally designed circa 2013 and published in 2014 by Canadian linguist Sonja Lang, the language's creator.

[11] Names (grammatically proper adjectives) are written by enclosing multiple characters in a cartouche shaped like a rounded rectangle.

[13] sitelen pona punctuation is unstandardized and thus highly variable, as The Language of Good features only the cartouche.

Sentence boundaries are typically marked with an interpunct, period, line break, or a wide space.

The 2022 Esperanto edition of the same book (Tokipono: La lingvo de bono) includes alternative ways to write three words.

[14] The same edition presents characters for the 17 additional words spotlighted as "essential" in Toki Pona Dictionary (nimi ku suli).