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The Libertinus font family

v7.040

3 years ago
  • Add 29 more specialty arrow glyphs to Math family
  • Rebuild with new sfdLib release to fix Spiro curve issues in uni2639
  • Correct Q.u side bearings to match Q in Sans & Serif families
  • Add missing U+029C to Serif Bold Italic
  • Add missing ‘below’ mark to h/H/h.sc across Serif family
  • Consistently align ‘below’ mark on h/H/h.sc across Serif family
  • Re-align mark positioning on U+032E breve below across Serif family
  • Add smallcaps and caps-2-smallcaps feature for h/H + breve below
  • Re-align ‘below’ mark on U+029C to match smallcaps across all families
  • Apply proper features (smallcaps i, f_i ligatures) in Kazakh and Tartar
  • Configure aboveMark as mark-to-mark lookup in Italics and add marks for: gracecomb, acutecomb, uni0302, tildecomb, uni030c, uni0304
  • Add above marks for otilde, open o and open e in Italics
  • Add above marks for otilde, vtilde and Vtilde in Regular
  • Correct placement of aboveMarks in Regular for: uni0300, uni0301, uni0302, uni0303, uni0304, uni0306, uni0308, uni030c
  • Add documentation of available OpenType features and sample CSS rules

Thanks to everyone who contributed towards this release including Ivo Straka (@ivo-s) and new contributors Felix Kopecky (@kopeckyf) and Christoph Päper (@Crissov)!

v7.031

3 years ago
  • Correct distribution release filenames

See also release notes for v7.030.

v7.030

3 years ago
  • Overhaul dot placement on all Latin capitals with dot-above
  • Align dot-below on ṃ U+1E43 below middle stroke of m
  • Remove bogus glyphs encoded as subscripts from Display and Serif Semibold
  • Drop inappropriate kerning classes from ₘ U+2098 and ₙ U+2099
  • Zero out kerns between super/subscript glyphs
  • Add glyph for U+0453 to Cyrillic Italic styles
  • Enable support for Macedonian localized Italics
  • Expand range of available angle bracket sizes in Math family
  • Add alternative slanted integrals to Math family (as feature +ss08)

v7.020

3 years ago
  • Fix name tables broken in 7.010 that associate styles in the Serif family
  • Correct position of middle dot on ŀ U+0140 in Mono and Keyboard families
  • Adjust height of middle dot in Ŀ U+013F in the Display family
  • Un-slant ‖ U+2016 and ‗ U+2017 in Mono family
  • Un-slant, center, and fix widths of dash related characters in Mono family

v7.010

3 years ago
  • Build WOFF2 static font files suitable for use as self-hosted webfonts
  • Add ‘𝄆’ [U+1D106] and ‘𝄇’ [U+1D107] MUSICAL SYMBOL REPEAT SIGN glyphs
  • Add ‘꞉’ [U+A789] MODIFIER LETTER COLON glyph
  • Fix weight of period (and derivatives such as colon) in Serif Semibold
  • Fix side bearings for +dlig ‘tz’
  • Fix vertical alignment of dots in colon to not shift between weights
  • Fix kerning of ‘f\’ and substitute an alternate ‘f’ glyph used in ‘f)’
  • Cleanup encoding used in source files and build rules for easier maintenance
  • Update font meta data fields, documentation for downloads, and build process

v7.000

3 years ago
  • Adopt maintenance of project and update foundry, docs, URLs, etc.
  • Change version scheme to be OpenFV compatible with 3 digit minor version.
  • Use Fontship to build all fonts and generate release packages.
  • Filter out generated font artifacts from source repository.

v6.12

3 years ago
  • Increase right side bearing of math italic R’s (#304).
  • Add glyph variants for floor and ceiling, to make their sizing consistent with other delimiters.
  • Remove kerning and other glyph positioning features, combining marks and other non-keycap glyphs from Libertinus Keyboard font.
  • Fix size and shape of U+2639, U+263A and U+263B (frowning & smiling faces).
  • Add “smcp”/“c2sc” variants for letters with macron (#303).
  • Make U+2223-2226 the same height as bar (#324).
  • Drop “sinf” feature, it just duplicates “subs” feature.
  • Improve sizing and spacing of math over accents.
  • Building the fonts no longer use FontForge.

v6.11

4 years ago
  • Added turned capital F (U+2132) to Libertinus Serif Regular.
  • Fix advance width for Serbian alternate U+0431 in Libertinus Serif Semibold.
  • Unify Cyrillic small letter ef (U+0444) shape in Libertinus Serif SemiBold fonts.
  • Add U+1D35, U+1D51, U+1D4B, U+1DA4, U+1DB6, U+2132, U+A71C-A71D, and U+A78A-A78C to Libertinus Serif fonts.
  • Add U+2982 and U+2A3E to Libertinus Math.
  • Various cleanups to Libertinus Mono font, removing erroneous glyphs and unsuitable features.
  • Improve the metrics of math italic v, w, and y.
  • Work around a bug in old versions of FreeType when rendering Linertinus Sans Italic m.
  • Fix alignment of multiplication sign in Libertinus Serif and Mono Regular fonts.
  • Make sizing of vertical and double vertical bar consistent with other math delimiters.
  • Improve spacing above and below fraction rule.
  • Various fixes to combining marks placement.

v6.10

4 years ago
  • Improve math italic j and i spacing (#273).
  • OpenType layout tables are now compiled with FontTools's feaLib instead of FontForge's own OpenType layout support.
  • Various internal cleanups.
  • Drop "case", "frac", "tnum" and "pnum" features from the Libertinus Mono font, they either were broken or not appropriate for a monospace font.

v6.9

4 years ago
  • Many mathematical operator in Libertinus Math were scaled up and redesigned for better use in math mode.
  • Libertinus Math now has fraktur alphabets (copied from STIX Two Math font) and sans serif italic Greek (slanted from the upright version).
  • Overline mark (U+0305) no longer make i and j dotless.
  • Overline mark should be placed higher than glyph ascenders.
  • Fonts are now autohinted with Adobe’s psautohint instead of FontForge’s autohinter.
  • Libertinus Keyboard had the German keys Bild misspelled as Build in both glyph name and ligature string.
  • Several changes to glyph names for consistency and accuracy.
  • Several minor reorganization to the OpenType features.