New in Unicode 13 is the addition of the Creative Commons License symbols (along with 5382 other characters):
U+0229C
No derivativesU+1F16D
Creative CommonsU+1F16E
Public DomainU+1F16F
AttributionU+1F10D
No rights reservedU+1F10E
Share-alikeU+1F10F
Non-commercial
Daniel Aleksandersen was quite excited to use these on his site, but then noticed:
No system fonts — font files pre-installed with operating systems — support these new characters yet. Even if some system fonts added these characters today, the updated versions won’t reach visitors’ devices until a couple of years from now.
To solve this he created a minimal webfont CC Symbols that only contains the copyright symbol (U+00A9
) and the 7 new CC license symbols.
To use it, load it as a webfont and limit its use to only the 8 characters it supports with unicode-range
@font-face {
font-display: swap;
font-family: CCSymbols;
font-synthesis: none;
src: url(CCSymbols.woff2) format(woff2),
url(CCSymbols.woff) format(woff);
unicode-range: u+a9, u+229c,
u+1f10d-f, u+1f16d-f;
}
body {
font-family: Helvetica,
sans-serif,
CCSymbols;
}
Nice work, Daniel!
New font with Unicode-compatible Creative Commons license symbols →
CC Symbols (Direct Download) →