This file provides detailed information on the Malini font software. This information should be distributed along with the Malini fonts and any derivative works.
Malini is a Malayalam typeface with regular, bold, thin variants. Malini means anklet. This is the third font after Chilanka and Manjari fonts by Santhosh Thottingal.
Designer: Santhosh Thottingal
Malini development is currently hosted at: http://gitlab.com/smc/fonts/Malini
Released versions of this font is available at smc.org.in/fonts for download. For old versions and detailed changelog, see https://gitlab.com/smc/fonts/Malini/-/releases. Feature requests, bug reports and patches should be directed to our issue tracker.
(in no particular order)
- Donald Ervin Knuth for inspiration, TeX, Metafont, for his detailed books on these topics.
- John D. Hobby. A METAFONT-like System with PostScript Output. TUGboat, 10(4), 1989.
- MetaType1, a font development system using MetaPost, by Bogusław Jackowski, Janus M. Nowacki, Piotr Strzelczyk. The metapost macros(`plain_ex.mp) from metatype1 package made this font feasible.
- John D. Hobby. METAPOST — A User’s Manual, 2008.
- Swathanthra Malayalam computing and its volunteers for all help and support.
- Latin letter construction
- FontFeatures python library by Simon Cozens helped programmatic generation of Opentype feature files.
- Jonathan Hoefler for the latin kerning tests
- Curvature combs and harmonized paths in METAPOST - Linus Romer. Harmonization for curves in this font is based on this work.
- halfken by Behdad Esfahbod for semi-automating the latin kerning.
- On Diacritics - article By David Březina
- Fontbakery for the extensive QA on the fonts.
For a complete list of authors who contributed to the project, see CONTRIBUTORS.md