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A femur is an object that happens to have a glyph.

BONES.OTF gives anatomy stable identities, semantic text aliases, PUA characters, vector masters, and emoji-like rendering.

This is not Wingdings. Ordinary letters stay ordinary. Try :femur: below; without BONES installed, the source text is still readable.

204 objectsU+E000–U+E0CBCOLRv1OpenType ligaGray plate tracesartwork provenance →

PLATE 01 / REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLY

A skeleton, assembled from objects.

186 semantic bone objects
186 Gray figures

A visual assembly, not a new canonical object: the rib cage, vertebral levels, sacrum, hands, and feet now sit on their anatomical anchors while every part remains independently addressable in the registry.

PLATE 02 / VISCERAL SET

The organs are illustrations too.

Every tile below is a real source-derived SVG master, not a placeholder icon. The registry still owns the identity.

Color is a restrained rendering layer; switch to the monochrome font when color must not carry meaning.

ONE OBJECT / MANY RENDERERS

The femur, six ways.

Semantic source

:femur:

Meaningful fallback text. This is what an author writes.

Ligature shaping

:femur:

The font's liga feature turns the token into one glyph.

Direct PUA

Stable project character: U+E00B. Always pair with a label.

Monochrome font

Scalable outline rendering for text and UI.

Color font

COLRv1 palette layers add restrained anatomical color.

Independent SVG

Femur SVG glyph

The font is optional; the vector master remains portable.

SHAPING PLAYGROUND

Type anatomy into a sentence.

Top: original shortcode text shaped by OpenType. Bottom: the helper resolves tokens to direct PUA characters.

CANONICAL IDENTITY

The glyph is not the object.

Applications can consume anatomy:femur, retrieve its label, shortcode, codepoint, SVG, and accessible name, then choose the renderer that fits.

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