XMB Fonts

Description

In typography, a font family (also known as typeface) is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyphs that share common design features

PS3 fonts are made by Fontworks Japan (for SCE-PS3 Rodin/NewRodin/SEURAT/Matisse JPN/LATIN/EXT Bold/Regular/Italic), dynacomware (for DFHeiW5-A), urwpp (for VAGRundschriftDLig, VAGRundschriftDLig2 and the Sony-CC), yoondesign (for SCE-PS3 YD gd Bold, SCE-PS3 YD gd Light and SCE-PS3 YD gd Medium)

In PS3 firmware 2.00 it was added a feature that allows the user to select the font style in XMB column ->[Theme settings]->[Font] from the default "original", "rounded", or "pop". This same setting can be modifyed by installing a .p3t theme and theoretically the setting should be stored in the list of "user settings" inside XRegistry.sys

The font file that will be used to display the texts is choosen by the PS3 firmware based on the language setting

Some parts of the firmware specifyes the font style that will be used by using his "font familly" as can be seen in RCOXML Fonts, there is not a known complete list of all the font families used by the system though. And is posible to change color, size, shadow and other text effects in the RCOXML Objects related

Some error codes are specific for fonts as Debug font error codes, and Font error codes where can be seen how the firmware uses the codenames "fontset" and "glyph"

Other parts of the firmware as the blu-ray player software, the PSP emulator, or the webbrowser uses its specific fonts tthat cant be considered "system fonts"

Using PS3 fonts in PC

Windows

• Installing .TTF fonts
  • Go to "control panel" and open "fonts" folder
  • Drag and drop the .TTF files inside "fonts" folder
• Displaying the whole character map of a font in windows/ubuntu
  • Go to "start" (or windows key+x) /open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), click in "run" and type: charmap, then enter
  • Inside charmap select the .TTF font and select a character, his "unicode" number is displayed at bottom left in the format U+1234 with a text description
• Displaying characters using unicode standard subgroups
  • Inside charmap select the .TTF font and change "group by" to "unicode subgroup"... a windows opens at the right with 45 groups, click in them to display the characters that belongs to this group

To write or read some special characters in PC is needed to specify the font that will be used in the application as can be seen in the image below

How to display extended CDATA characters in .XML files with notepad++ style configurator

Font tools

• charmap (Character Map Utility, preinstalled in windows/Ubuntu)
  • Windows: http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/charmap.html
  • Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CharacterMap

• FontForge (powerful font editor) http://fontforge.org/

Font types

For other font references in PS3 firmware see Discussion page

TTF system fonts

In Path: dev_flash/data/font/

Font Name	Firmware	File Name	MD5	Usage			Unicode Subgroups
				original	rounded	pop	lati	punc	mony	suPB	enve	numb	arro	math	tech	OCR	alfa	fram	blok	symb	spa	diac	grek	ciri	arab	tibe	hang	kana	bopo	iCJK	sCJK	ideo	cCJK	varS	forW	forM	priv
DFHeiW5-A	1.10-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-DH-R-CGB.TTF	8298536755af9d0c51350dccf84e0f60	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
SCE-PS3 Capie KANA Regular	1.90-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-CP-R-KANA.TTF	56eeef6f0bf4304cbb25c3a34d5415dd	?	??	???	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
SCE-PS3 Matisse LATIN Bold	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-MT-B-LATIN.TTF	633730e312abf51d4e2c245fc318d381	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Matisse LATIN BoldItalic	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-MT-BI-LATIN.TTF	ccd8c529ef0b695111f2615b1093e38d	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Matisse LATIN Italic	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-MT-I-LATIN.TTF	d15017f2fed8196cd7bee5404f3be6d0	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Matisse LATIN Regular	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-MT-R-LATIN.TTF	252116679f1f593306a1f712f3de1ee2	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 NewRodin EXT Regular	1.00-1.54	SCE-PS3-NR-R-EXT.TTF	011e1bda9c6b4be8a5919a01d65ccd05	?	??	???	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
	1.60-Template:Latest		2093744c3265d64e1a211994ed1c9f66	?	??	???	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
SCE-PS3 NewRodin JPN Bold	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-NR-B-JPN.TTF	de91673a29236ba6db2b5bff43517a82	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
SCE-PS3 NewRodin JPN Light	1.00-1.94	SCE-PS3-NR-L-JPN.TTF	93d3cdf914e6fdf860b2c88b1007e709	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
	2.00-Template:Latest		e2a36a3567579222ede5fc037e0b4a72	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
SCE-PS3 NewRodin JPN Regular	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-NR-R-JPN.TTF	0964fada1726d6c86bfd190b82955d0a	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN Bold	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-RD-B-LATIN.TTF	440399fc14b06e06e349ac00f5f90b99	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN BoldItalic	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-RD-BI-LATIN.TTF	aeb6defacc19d4de3badf6829dbc09de	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN Italic	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-RD-I-LATIN.TTF	423c81d7808ca94b15609c5393bc8b95	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN LightItalic	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-RD-LI-LATIN.TTF	56615610988819ee3f5ac330a4720229	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN2 Bold	2.70-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-RD-B-LATIN2.TTF	4096b273f77b1fdb85edc41de8d5d0cb	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN Light	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-RD-L-LATIN.TTF	3bedb71fcfc5945c97e424801ed5655d	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN2 Light	2.70-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-RD-L-LATIN2.TTF	331d540c72c733e727d1ad5d17bfffdf	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN Regular	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-RD-R-LATIN.TTF	117aecd019bd546158723d04da2597b0	Yes	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN2 Regular	2.70-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-RD-R-LATIN2.TTF	d2928959ca2ec90b5311acc766878da9	Yes	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Seurat EXT Regular	2.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-SR-R-EXT.TTF	cb45f4bd16cfe0eb84b27781d3ec1618	?	??	???	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
SCE-PS3 Seurat JPN Regular	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-SR-R-JPN.TTF	139fd3f044eaf7abec4be15cadfd1b95	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
SCE-PS3 Seurat LATIN Regular	1.90-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-SR-R-LATIN.TTF	95b22135152d73a10b228eed7a6fc619	?	Yes	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 Seurat LATIN2 Regular	3.10-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-SR-R-LATIN2.TTF	2da9b59f0b6f128840059295a7bcb7c3	?	Yes	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SCE-PS3 YD gd Bold	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-YG-B-KOR.TTF	1903b9af9343b5d66d8ffc69c2fb6cd6	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
SCE-PS3 YD gd Light	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-YG-L-KOR.TTF	9de713abb39f6b80aaf9bdc7d115878a	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
SCE-PS3 YD gd Medium	1.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-YG-R-KOR.TTF	07a1073f311e1e163f7ba6b85f9f4b6b	?	??	???	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
VAGRundschriftDLig	2.00-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-VR-R-LATIN.TTF	1f19bc8dd23bf62bfd2e1536cbb5c88a	?	??	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
VAGRundschriftDLig2	3.10-Template:Latest	SCE-PS3-VR-R-LATIN2.TTF	acd93157f7998933774b398740becb46	?	??	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

imagefont.bin

File:Charmap private use area.png

"Private use area" characters with the hexadecimal value

• Contains some hundreds of glyphs (characters). Every glyph is compressed individually with zlib, are colored, and some are animated
• imagefont.bin is used in several playstation consoles:
  • PSP firmware: in path flash0:/font/imagefont.bin was added in PSP firmware around 5.00 (exists in 5.00, but not in 3.30 or older PSP firmwares)
  • PS3 firmware: in path dev_flash/vsh/resource/imagefont.bin (added since 1.90, used for PS3 VSH) and dev_flash/pspemu/flash0/font/imagefont.bin (added since 3.15, used for VSH inside PSP emulator)
  • PSvita firmware: in path vs0:data/external/font/emoji/imagefont.bin (in 3.30 or earlyer)
  • PS4 ?

devflash/vsh/resource/imagefont.bin

Version (firmware)	Size (bytes)	Hash (MD5)	Header info			Remarks
			format_version ?	index_entries	index_offset
1.90~1.94	385816	3e74a50419c165f4208b84adcbf2881f	00 90	01 29	00 05 D0 88
2.00~2.43	386905	6b842156c0996e4c706fbdea919a040f	01 00	01 29	00 05 D4 C9
2.50~3.42	416269	2da04c8caaec6012911b10fc3b829b10	?	?	?
3.50~3.66	417620	6c03902f0342cc6e688c527b40ce0f7d	01 00	01 40	00 06 4B 54
3.70~4.55	420192	98e8f3545e04ad62da19c2fc63210cfd	01 00	01 42	00 06 55 40
4.60~Template:Latest	424023	97daf9e7fff3a834bcf97c0c2240dced	01 00	01 4C	00 06 63 97

devflash/pspemu/flash0/font/imagefont.bin

Version	Size	MD5	Remarks
3.15~Template:Latest	12331	ae560a9f0795096c9857052441bd8cec

Structure

After reading the header the firmware loads the contents of imagefont.bin "from bottom to top" in this order:

1. - reads the header (at top of imagefont.bin), in the header is specifyed where is located the index
2. - reads the index (at bottom of imagefont.bin), in the index is specifyed where are located the palettes
3. - reads the palettes (at middle of imagefont.bin), in the palettes is specifyed where are located the image datas
4. - reads the image data (at top of imagefont.bin)

Overview

Area	Remark
Header	Contains info about the index
Image data table	Composed by glyphs, compressed individually with zlib (glyphs are indexed in the palettes)
Palette table	Composed by color palettes, compressed individually with zlib (palettes are indexed in the index)
Index table	Composed by entries of 0x10 bytes lenght each

Header

• 0x8 bytes lenght

imagefont.bin header

Offset	Lenght	Name	Example 4.60~Template:Latest	Remark
0x00	0x02	format_version ?	01 00	format version ?
0x02	0x02	index_entries	01 4C	number of entries in the index
0x04	0x04	index_offset	00 06 63 97	index location (at bottom of imagefont.bin)

Image data table

This is the first glyph, cropped and zlib decompressed individually, is "dualshock circle button" (U+F880 in unicode), every byte works as a color ID, the view mode has been changed to "26 bytes per row" in the hexeditor (for a representation of a 26 pixels width icon)

First glyph, pixel data of "dualshock circle button" (U+F880 in unicode) inside dev_flash/pspemu/flash0/font/imagefont.bin

Palette table

The palettes are composed by 3 areas, the header, the frames info, and the colormap table

Palette header (0x6 lenght)

Offset	Lenght	Name	Examples					Notes
			uF880, button circle	uF6DF, zodiac pisces	uF405, smiley laughing	uF46F, weather raindrops	uF8AB, battery charging
0x00	0x02	colormap_count ?	01 00	01 00	01 00	01 00	01 00	256 colors in decimal
0x02	0x01	colormap_bpp ?	04	04	04	04	04	To store colors in RGBA channels, 1 byte each
0x03	0x01	frames_count	01	01	02	03	04	One for static, several for animated
0x04	0x02	animation_time ?	00 00	00 3C	00 78	00 B4	00 F0	Is the sum of all frame_time

Palette frame (0xC lenght for every frame)

Offset	Lenght	Name	Examples					Notes
			uF880, button circle	uF6DF, zodiac pisces	uF405, smiley laughing	uF46F, weather raindrops	uF8AB, battery charging
0x00	0x04	image_data_offset	00 00 00 08	00 02 43 A3	00 00 7B CF		00 00 4D 70	image data absolute offset
0x04	0x02	image_data_lenght	01 D9	01 6D	02 15		01 AE	image data lenght (zlib compressed)
0x06	0x02	frame_time ?	00 00	00 3C	00 3C		00 3C
0x08	0x01	unknown	01	01	01		01
0x09	0x01	color_transparent	AD	00	00		00
0x0A	0x02	unknown	00 00	00 00	00 00		00 00	color_black ?
repeats for every frame
0x00	0x04	same	N/A	N/A	00 00 7D E4		00 00 4F 1E
0x04	0x02	same	N/A	N/A	02 18		02 19
0x06	0x02	same	N/A	N/A	00 3C		00 3C
0x08	0x01	same	N/A	N/A	01		01
0x09	0x01	same	N/A	N/A	00		00
0x0A	0x02	same	N/A	N/A	00 00		00 00
repeats for every frame
0x00	0x04	same	N/A	N/A	N/A		00 00 51 37
0x04	0x02	same	N/A	N/A	N/A		02 4F
0x06	0x02	same	N/A	N/A	N/A		00 3C
0x08	0x01	same	N/A	N/A	N/A		01
0x09	0x01	same	N/A	N/A	N/A		00
0x0A	0x02	same	N/A	N/A	N/A		00 00
repeats for every frame
0x00	0x04	same	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	00 00 53 86
0x04	0x02	same	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	02 72
0x06	0x02	same	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	00 3C
0x08	0x01	same	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	01
0x09	0x01	same	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	00
0x0A	0x02	same	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	00 00

This is the header of charging battery (animated) U+F8AB icon, is composed by 4 frames, marked in colors in the example below

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05

00000000  01 00 04 04 00 F0  .....ð
00000006  00 00 4D 70 01 AE  ..Mp.®
0000000C  00 3C 01 00 00 00  .<....
00000012  00 00 4F 1E 02 19  ..O...
00000018  00 3C 01 00 00 00  .<....
0000001E  00 00 51 37 02 4F  ..Q7.O
00000024  00 3C 01 00 00 00  .<....
0000002A  00 00 53 86 02 72  ..S†.r
00000030  00 3C 01 00 00 00  .<....

After the header is located the color map (usually 256 entries for 256 colors), every entry for a color is 4 bytes lenght

Index table

• The entries in the index are 0x10 bytes lenght. "number of entries in the index" multiplied by "lenght of an entry" = lenght of the whole index
• Example of the first 4 index entries (F880 = Circle Button, F881 = Cross Button, F882 = Square Button, F883 = Triangle Button)

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

00065540  00 02 3A B6 03 5E 04 12 F8 80 00 1A 00 17 80 00  ..:¶.^..ø€....€.
00065550  00 02 3E 14 03 3D 04 12 F8 81 00 1A 00 17 80 00  ..>..=..ø.....€.
00065560  00 02 41 51 03 0A 04 12 F8 82 00 1A 00 17 80 00  ..AQ....ø‚....€.
00065570  00 02 44 5B 03 47 04 12 F8 83 00 1A 00 17 80 00  ..D[.G..øƒ....€.

Offset	Lenght	Name	Example 4.46	Notes
0x00	0x04	palette_offset	00 02 3A B6
0x04	0x02	palette_size_compressed	03 5E
0x06	0x02	palette_size_decompressed	04 12
0x08	0x02	unicode_id	F8 80	Circle Button
0x0A	0x02	image_data_width	00 1A	26 pixels width
0x0C	0x02	image_data_height	00 17	23 pixels height
0x0E	0x02	unknown	80 00	flags, converted to binary ? (only 2 valid values found in ofw, 0x8000 and 0x3FFF)

TTF Blu-ray player fonts

Player

• In Path: dev_flash/bdplayer/bdjstack/SCE-PS3-RD-R-LATIN.TTF (identical file as in data/font) (since 1.00)

Fontname	Version	File Name	MD5	Remarks
SCE-PS3 Rodin LATIN Regular	(1.00-Template:Latest)	SCE-PS3-RD-R-LATIN.TTF	117aecd019bd546158723d04da2597b0

Closed captions

• In path: dev_flash/data/font/SONY-CC/ (since 4.50 CEX: 7 others fonts for closed captions)

Fontname	Version	File Name	MD5	Remarks
	(4.50-Template:Latest)	c041056ts.ttf	ad7d1d44ed71fb093272c97a9ada20c3
	(4.50-Template:Latest)	d013013ds.ttf	7e506d6d01012a3d539773fc85cea2cc
	(4.50-Template:Latest)	e046323ms.ttf	4e23131d06152ddadab15a20820815a1
	(4.50-Template:Latest)	e046323ts.ttf	9d59a66a0c3272e8fc6a3036cb06a4a8
	(4.50-Template:Latest)	k006004ds.ttf	b4c4ba4db62e93de79c953d3493088c7
	(4.50-Template:Latest)	n023055ms.ttf	be8cba042232554219905e01e72ebaa6
	(4.50-Template:Latest)	n023055ts.ttf	1078c40b04206b3d42a896994c723452

Character Maps

There are thousands of characters and is pointless to make tables of them, there are also some characters that cant be displayed in a web browser because 99% of the users will not have the fonts installed in PC (like the beauty "drawings" of tibetan alphabet)... but some of this characters are more interesting than others, and are commonly used and included in most fonts, the most interesting groups are the ones that are common for all fonts and used by the system not dependant of the font style (original, rounded, or pop), like the "symbols" and "frame borders"

• Unicode character tables (ordered by hex code, ordering by hex code is not accurate but this links contains all the groups well defined, delimited, and is using the standard group names)
  • 0x0000 0x0FFF
  • 0x1000 0x1FFF
  • 0x2000 0x2FFF
  • 0x3000 0x3FFF
  • 0x4000 0x4FFF
  • 0x5000 0x5FFF
  • 0x6000 0x6FFF
  • 0x7000 0x7FFF
  • 0x8000 0x8FFF
  • 0x9000 0x9FFF
  • 0xA000 0xAFFF
  • 0xB000 0xBFFF
  • 0xC000 0xCFFF
  • 0xD000 0xDFFF
  • 0xE000 0xEFFF
  • 0xF000 0xFFFF

Symbols

These symbols can be used in any UTF-8 text string displayed in XMB, (e.g: TITLE, SUBTITLE, DETAIL, inside PARAM.SFO of a content)

Character	Unicode	hexadecimal	Character Name	Inside	description
★	U+2605	E2 98 85	BLACK STAR	DFHeiW5-A NewRodin JPN Seurat JPN	same star used in "install packages"
☆	U+2606	E2 98 86	WHITE STAR	DFHeiW5-A NewRodin JPN Seurat JPN	similar to the star used in "install packages", but empty
☉	U+2609	E2 98 89	SUN	DFHeiW5-A
♀	U+2640	E2 99 80	FEMALE SIGN	DFHeiW5-A NewRodin JPN Seurat JPN
♂	U+2642	E2 99 82	MALE SIGN	DFHeiW5-A NewRodin JPN Seurat JPN

Punctuation

Character	Unicode	hexadecimal	Character Name	Inside	description
®	U+00AE			Matisse LATIN	registered trademark
©	U+00A9

Envelope

Character	Unicode	hexadecimal	Character Name	Inside	description
™		E2 84 A2			trademark symbol

General

Character	Unicode	hexadecimal	Character Name	Inside	description
		0A	linefeed
		20	space
%		25	escape		Used to load parameters: %1, %2, %e, %E, %B

Private Use Area (Unicode range from U+0E000 up to U+0F8FF)

File:Charmap private use area.png

"Private use area" characters with the hexadecimal value

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This ones are special, are identifyed by unicode id's like an standard font, but are located inside imagefont.bin. See: http://www.psx-place.com/threads/special-symbols-and-animated-characters-on-the-xmb.13985/

• In the index of dev_flash/vsh/resource/imagefont.bin can be seen the list of icons, one line each, see: https://pastebin.com/ZWkie7tQ (imagefont.bin index used in firmwares 3.50~3.66) or https://pastebin.com/MBpQAekU https://pastebin.com/84Qva4Fw (imagefont.bin index used in firmwares 4.60-4.81)
  • bytes 0x08 and 0x09 = unicode id
  • bytes 0x0A and 0x0B = width (varies)
  • bytes 0x0C and 0x0D = height (all them are 23 pixels height)
  • bytes 0x0E and 0x0F = unknown, only two posible values 0x8000 or 0x7FFF, seems to be binary flags

Character	Unicode	hexadecimal	Character Name	description
	U+0F460	EF 91 A0	Heart pumping
	U+0F461	EF 91 A1	2 Hearts (Moving)
	U+0F462	EF 91 A2	Broken Heart (Moving)
	U+0F463	EF 91 A3	Heart with Arrow (Moving)
	U+0F464	EF 91 A4	Heart
	U+0F465	EF 91 A5	Spades
	U+0F466	EF 91 A6	Clubs
	U+0F467	EF 91 A7	Diamond
	U+0F468	EF 91 A8	!
	U+0F469	EF 91 A9	!!
	U+0F46A	EF 91 AA	?
	U+0F46B	EF 91 AB	?!
	U+0F46C	EF 91 AC	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F46D	EF 91 AD	Light Bulb
	U+0F46E	EF 91 AE	Explosion (Moving)
	U+0F46F	EF 91 AF	3 Drops (Moving)
	U+0F470	EF 91 B0	Drop (Moving)
	U+0F471	EF 91 B1	Blast
	U+0F472	EF 91 B2	Flower
	U+0F473	EF 91 B3	Skull
	U+0F474	EF 91 B4	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F475	EF 91 B5	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F476	EF 91 B6	Stars (Moving)
	U+0F477	EF 91 B7	Fire (Moving)
	U+0F478	EF 91 B8	Note
	U+0F479	EF 91 B9	Note1
	U+0F47A	EF 91 BA	Note2
	U+0F47B	EF 91 BB	Note3
	U+0F47C	EF 91 BC	2Notes
	U+0F47D	EF 91 BD	2Notes1
	U+0F47E	EF 91 BE	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F47F	EF 91 BF	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F480	EF 92 80	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F481	EF 92 81	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F482	EF 92 82	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F483	EF 92 83	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F484	EF 92 84	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F485	EF 92 85	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F486	EF 92 86	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F487	EF 92 87	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F488	EF 92 88	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F489	EF 92 89	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F48A	EF 92 8A	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F48B	EF 92 8B	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F48C	EF 92 8C	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F48D	EF 92 8D	Lips
	U+0F48E	EF 92 8E	Lips with Tongue
	U+0F48F	EF 92 8F	Kissing Lips
	U+0F490	EF 92 90	Nose
	U+0F491	EF 92 91	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F492	EF 92 92	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F493	EF 92 93	Ear
	U+0F494	EF 92 94	Feet
	U+0F495	EF 92 95	Feet1
	U+0F496	EF 92 96	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F497	EF 92 97	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F498	EF 92 98	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F499	EF 92 99	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F49A	EF 92 9A	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F49B	EF 92 9B	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F49C	EF 92 9C	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F49D	EF 92 9D	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F49E	EF 92 9E	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F49F	EF 92 9F	Sun (Moving)
	U+0F4A0	EF 92 A0	Clouds (Moving)
	U+0F4A1	EF 92 A1	Umbrella
	U+0F4A2	EF 92 A2	Rainbow
	U+0F4A3	EF 92 A3	Umbrella Raining (Moving)
	U+0F4A4	EF 92 A4	Snowman (Moving)
	U+0F4A5	EF 92 A5	Storm (Moving)
	U+0F4A6	EF 92 A6	Tornado
	U+0F4A7	EF 92 A7	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4A8	EF 92 A8	Closed Umbrella
	U+0F4A9	EF 92 A9	Snowflake
	U+0F4AA	EF 92 AA	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4AB	EF 92 AB	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4AC	EF 92 AC	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4AD	EF 92 AD	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4AE	EF 92 AE	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4AF	EF 92 AF	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4B0	EF 92 B0	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4B1	EF 92 B1	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4B2	EF 92 B2	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4B3	EF 92 B3	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4B4	EF 92 B4	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4B5	EF 92 B5	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4B6	EF 92 B6	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F4B7	EF 92 B7	Bouquet
	U+0F4B8	EF 92 B8	Ring
	U+0F4B9	EF 92 B9	Loop
	U+0F4BA	EF 92 BA	Present
	U+0F4BB	EF 92 BB	Cake
	U+0F4BC	EF 92 BC	Money
	U+0F4BD	EF 92 BD	¥
	U+0F4BE	EF 92 BE	$

Character	Unicode	hexadecimal	Character Name	description
	U+0F880	EF A2 80	Circle Button
	U+0F881	EF A2 81	Cross Button
	U+0F882	EF A2 82	Square Button
	U+0F883	EF A2 83	Triangle Button
	U+0F884	EF A2 84	DPAD Up Button
	U+0F885	EF A2 85	DPAD Down Button
	U+0F886	EF A2 86	DPAD Left Button
	U+0F887	EF A2 87	DPAD Right Button
	U+0F888	EF A2 88	L1 Button
	U+0F889	EF A2 89	L2 Button
	U+0F88A	EF A2 8A	L3 Button
	U+0F88B	EF A2 8B	R1 Button
	U+0F88C	EF A2 8C	R2 Button
	U+0F88D	EF A2 8D	R3 Button
	U+0F88E	EF A2 8E	Select Button
	U+0F88F	EF A2 8F	Start Button
	U+0F890	EF A2 90	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F891	EF A2 91	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F892	EF A2 92	PS Button
	U+0F893	EF A2 93	L2/DPAD Left Buttons
	U+0F894	EF A2 94	R2/DPAD Right Buttons
	U+0F895	EF A2 95	PS logo
	U+0F896	EF A2 96	PS4 logo
	U+0F897	EF A2 97	PS3 logo
	U+0F898	EF A2 98	PSVita logo
	U+0F899	EF A2 99	PSP logo
	U+0F89A	EF A2 9A	PSN logo
	U+0F89B	EF A2 9B	PSN logo 2
	U+0F89C	EF A2 9C	PS store logo
	U+0F89D	EF A2 9D	PS Plus white logo
	U+0F89E	EF A2 9E	PS move logo
	U+0F89F	EF A2 9F	N/A	Shows an underscore when used on XMBML
	U+0F8A0	EF A2 A0	Speaker0
	U+0F8A1	EF A2 A1	Speaker1
	U+0F8A2	EF A2 A2	Speaker2
	U+0F8A3	EF A2 A3	Speaker3
	U+0F8A4	EF A2 A4	Mic Muted
	U+0F8A5	EF A2 A5	HQ
	U+0F8A6	EF A2 A6	Arrow Right
	U+0F8A7	EF A2 A7	0/3 Battery
	U+0F8A8	EF A2 A8	1/3 Battery
	U+0F8A9	EF A2 A9	2/3 Battery
	U+0F8AA	EF A2 AA	3/3 Battery
	U+0F8AB	EF A2 AB	Loading Battery (Moving)
	U+0F8AC	EF A2 AC	Bronze Trophy
	U+0F8AD	EF A2 AD	Silver Trophy
	U+0F8AE	EF A2 AE	Gold Trophy
	U+0F8AF	EF A2 AF	Platinum Trophy
	U+0F8B0	EF A2 B0	Caps
	U+0F8B1	EF A2 B1	Maj
	U+0F8B2	EF A2 B2	Keyboard
	U+0F8B3	EF A2 B3	Finger/Mouse
	U+0F8B4	EF A2 B4	Circle in Circle
	U+0F8B5	EF A2 B5	Circle
	U+0F8B6	EF A2 B6	PSPlus
	U+0F8B7	EF A2 B7	Headset
	U+0F8B8	EF A2 B8	Headset in Circle