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UnifontEX's pixel style can actually be a good thing, given the way many modern games look, so it's not just a utility font either, rather, it *can* look good or even fitting with the aesthetic of what you use it in.
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Think a retro and/or futuristic aesthetic, electronic signage, a dot-matrix text display, electronic billboards, or all sorts of other things of that nature. There *ARE* places where UnifontEX can fit in quite well. It isn't something like Comic Papyrus, or something else of the sort. It actually has practical uses, AND places where it can visually fit in too. It's not an ugly duckling of the font world, and it has *MANY* applications.
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Keep in mind that UnifontEX is a 16px *pixel* font. It packs a punch, but unless you're a family of programmers I highly doubt using it for wedding use is a good idea, and even then it would be an *inspired* decision more than anything. Not to mention the guests wouldn't know what to think. Now if you're using it for a LAN party or convention, now we're talking. UnifontEX's main job is maximum Unicode support, and all the resulting applications. It's a *utility* font the same way Wingdings/etc are, or a fallback. It's *not* Zapfino. Now sure, there ARE situations where its appearance is desired, but a flowery wedding invitation is not among them.
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Keep in mind that UnifontEX is a 16px *pixel* font. It packs a punch, but unless you're a family of programmers I highly doubt using it for wedding use is a good idea, and even then it would be an *inspired* decision more than anything. Not to mention the guests wouldn't know what to think. Now if you're using it for a LAN party or convention, now we're talking. UnifontEX's main job is maximum Unicode support, and all the resulting applications. It's a *utility* font the same way Wingdings/etc are, or a fallback. It's *not* Zapfino. Now sure, there ARE situations where its appearance is desired, but a flowery wedding invitation is not among them. Try Cöntgen Kanzley, a hybrid between Blackletter, Italics, and Cursive, under OFL, made from antiquated German handwriting. It could technically be called `Mathematical Italic Script Fraktur` and for the upright version `Mathematical Script Fraktur`. For parity we need bold versions, a full Double-Struck Italics set, and the fact that double-struck (actually done like the chalkboard method) cursive exists. So technically we need even more combinations. After all, mathematics needs constants. Also BWTC32Key's alphabet would be useful to use in mathematics for binary constants without hogging memory.
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I may have bad luck with math, but I do admire some mathematical creations. UnifontEX is able to replace math handwriting more than Cambria Math ever can. Especially when physics and technical stuff get involved. No, it may not have fine subpixels, but it is a very crucial font to have, even though it's pixel. It's like retro Courier but sans and on coffee. This ain't a wine bottle font, folx.
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Graphically, UnifontEX is NOT ornate nor is it complex. In fact, it's simpler than any other 12pt/16px font. It's 12pt/16px, but there's `no` subpixels *at all*. It's the purest 12pt/16px you get. How is *that* "complex" or "ornate"? It isn't. Unless you count stuff like the pixel diagonals as ornate, but is that actually sensible? If anything, there's some characters that would be served well by more detail. This is an even bigger problem in upstream Unifont starting in Unifont 12, and it's especially bad nowadays. The Anatomical Heart and nests in Unifont Upper are big examples of that problem, but they don't affect UnifontEX.
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Having said that, Unicode and UnifontEX(2) have quite a few characters used for fancier typography. From fleurons to punctuation ornaments, rare punctuation, mathematical cursive, mathematical monospace being serif, to all sorts of global and historical decorative punctuation. Albeit, it's pixel, but at least it's there. And of course it has a lot of symbols you'll find in a word processor, but ultimately UnifontEX would look the best in something designed to look retro, modern, or futuristic. It's not something you'd want to print invitations to a traditional wedding in.

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