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v0.5-alpha.1

22 Jun 15:36
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Alpha release
For testing only. Includes variable Roman font + .ttf and .otf static Roman fonts. Does not have any Italic fonts.

MAJOR

  • Cyrillic (Supports Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, and maybe some more)
  • Weight values change
  • Vertical metrics change

ADDITION

  • Discretionary Ligatures (script + neo-grotesk)
  • Fractions & some math notations
  • Tabular punctuations

FIXES & MODIFICATIONS

  • Most uppercase letters widened up
  • Kerning issues, along with adding kerning for Cyrillic letters
  • I dieresis fix & Double ÏÏ ïï alternative
  • I.ss11.ss03: Now works like how it should be: both off, one of the two on, both on - all working
  • Improved side bearings for some letters
  • Stacked diacritics for Vietnamese: manually edited
  • Polish characters: A, E, U + ogonek: manually edited; different design for acute

WARNING: Any releases before version 1.0 may have massive changes to side bearings, vertical or horizontal metrics, and character widths. If you use this typeface for a website, expect a slight change in the web layout.

v0.4

28 Sep 15:51
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Kinda big update

MAJOR

  • Italic fonts FINISHED (for now)
  • Remove uniwidth (rip)

ADDITION

  • Add serif 'I' for disambiguation, can be activated with Stylistic Set 11 ss11
  • Add currency symbols
  • Add 'a.spur' for Helvetica lovers, can be activated with Character Variant 05 cv05

FIXES

  • Fix kerning for some glyphs in stylistic sets + Bad kerning in general + Kerning for some punctuation marks
  • Small latin 'a' - spur is now straight
  • Minor letterforms & curves improvements
  • Italic for capital ESZETT
  • Change side bearings for 'ɐ', an IPA letter

WARNING: Any releases before version 1.0 may have massive changes to side bearings, vertical or horizontal metrics, and character widths. If you use this typeface for a website, expect a slight change in the web layout.

v0.3.1

02 Sep 06:11
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Small update

ADDITION

  • Now include woff fonts for web.

FIXES

  • Minor changes

Special thanks to @husenunicorn for helping with .woff2 compression
woff and woff2 are generated using google/woff2 and samboy/WOFF.

v0.3

31 Aug 11:42
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Kinda big update

MAJOR

  • Italic fonts
  • .woff2 for variable and static fonts

FIXES

  • Kerning fixes
  • Minor outline changes for interpolation

Special thanks to @husenunicorn for helping with woff2 compression.

v0.2

25 Aug 09:54
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Kinda big update

MAJOR

  • KERNING!!!

ADDITION

  • Some additional accented letters
  • Uniwidth (complete)
  • Arrows (complete)
  • IPA (Letters)

v0.1

20 Aug 15:53
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Kinda big update

MAJOR

  • All stylistic sets finished
  • NO KERNINGS. YET!!!!

ADDITION

  • Number-related characters (sub, superscript, denominator, numerator, tabular, circled, squared)
  • Arrows (not finished in Black weight)
  • Uniwidth character variant / cv05 (not finished in both Light and Black master)

FIXES

  • Bug

v0.01

05 Aug 14:57
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First pre-release version

MAJOR

  • Basic + Extended Latin (Vietnamese support)
  • Basic numbers, punctuations, symbols
  • 10 stylistic sets (a, l, Rounded dots, G, R, J, y, t, *, u) (UNFINISHED)
  • NO KERNING.

WARNING

  • Only for testing purposes. This version is not suitable for further use.
  • The source files for this release is incorrect.