Arugula Font

Arugula is a military-style stencil sans-serif in quite narrow proportions. It is developed from found stencilling on the side of a case of rocket ammunition.

The name is a pun, Arugula is one of the names of the edible plant Rocket.

At more than 150 glyphs, the repertoire is enough to support Welsh, Slovenian, basic English, and a smattering of West European and African languages; Dutch IJ is supported.

Accents in the font can be placed onto letters and numbers using the Unicode combining feature. This allows the font to support Ento, a Martian language documented by Sara Weiss, which uses an umlaut below (Unicode U+0324); as well as other marks that this font supports.

For wayfinding, arrows are supplied, and markers for croissant, coffee, and fountain.

Release Notes

2025-03

• /IJ digraph (for Dutch) added; available as Unicode U+0132 and also as a /I_J ligature enabled with dlig; accent support is experimental to dubious.
• Alternate for /j added: with a flat, not upturned, hook.
• Alternate for /zero added: zero with blackslash (and improbably bridged counters).
• /asterism U+2042 ⁂ added.
• U+2234 THEREFORE ∴ and U+2235 BECAUSE ∵ added.
• microadjustments to ↔️.

A more complete list of languages supported (from Font Book):

Afrikaans, Asu, Bemba, Bena, Cebuano, Chiga, Cornish, Corsican, Dutch, English, Gusii, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Jju, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Lojban, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malay, Maori, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Shambala, Shona, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Swahili, Swati, Swiss German, Taita, Taroko, Teso, Tsonga, Tswana, Tyap, Vunjo, Welsh, Western Frisian, Xhosa, Zulu