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The Libertinus font family

v6.8

5 years ago
  • Fix missing “math” OpenType script from Libertinus Math.
  • Add \QED symbol to Libertinus Math, also add Add ⦇ (U+2987) and ⦈ (U+2988).
  • Fix mis-encoded glyphs in Libertinus Serif Semibold Italic.
  • Make digits fitted in Libertinus Serif Initials font, and drop incomplete Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew support.
  • Add U+AB52 and U+A793 to Libertinus Serif Regular.

v6.7

5 years ago
  • Add Cyrillic to Libertinus Serif Bold Italic.
  • Many character additions to Libertinus Math.
  • Set “is extended shape” flag to relevant Libertinus Math glyphs to fix script position on large symbols in Microsoft Word.
  • Improve \coloneq and \eqcolon by increasing the space between the colon and the equal sign.
  • Make upright \partial and \mbfpartial look upright, and make \mbfpartial really bold.
  • Make the vertical bars in Libertinus Math match the height of the other delimiters.
  • Use smaller value for SubscriptBaselineDropMin, the subscripts applied to sub formulas were positioned too low.
  • Fix the side bearings for italic mathematical glyphs in Libertinus Math, making them symmetrical (20 units) and rework kerning tables according to text font kerning.
  • Fix vertical variants of math symbols.
  • Add more ligatures to Libertinus Serif, and add missing ligatures to other Libertinus Serif fonts for parity with the regular style.
  • Move Th ligature to Discretionary Ligatures (“dlig”).
  • Discretionary Ligatures can also be enable using ZWJ control character.
  • Drop “fina” feature for Greek sigma, this feature is for Arabic-like scripts.
  • Move short f substitutions to the more appropriate “calt” feature instead of “ccmp”.
  • Drop “nalt” feature as all glyphs it substitutes to are encoded Unicode characters that can be accessed directly.
  • Rename font files to match the PostScript name of each font.
  • Make Libertinus Serif Semibold work on legacy applications that support only 4 styles per family.
  • Fix disordered BlueValues causing warnings with Ghostscript.
  • Make the PUA symbols that were in Libertinus Keyboard accessed as ligatures.
  • Align the bottom of the colon with the period.
  • Kern alternate W glyph similar to regular one.
  • Harmonize the design of italic figures.
  • Extend caps lining figures to (almost) all Serif faces and both proportional and tabular spacing.
  • Fix Libertinus Serif Italic ђ, it looked like an т.
  • Make few marks that combine two glyphs higher, so that they don’t bump into glyph ascenders.
  • Lower Libertinus Mono asterisk and make it bigger.
  • Make combining low line and over line contiguous.
  • Make OpenType features more consistent across fonts.

v6.6

6 years ago
  • Align MATH AxisHeight with minus and similar operators.
  • Align single and double arrows to minus and equal signs.
  • Fix Celsius, Fahrenheit and Ohm signs to take the style of their fonts.
  • Fix Ohm sign side bearings.
  • Fix Service Mark and Trade Mark in sans fonts to take their style.
  • Unify the default for of Eng glyph across fonts, and add and alternate shape for Sami language.
  • Fix Cyrillic small letter ef in display font to match the regular serif font.
  • Dropped some more unused PUA slots.
  • The copyleft symbol now used the proposed Unicode 11 code point.

v6.5

6 years ago
  • Fix regressions in handling of extensible combining marks with LuaTeX.
  • Add Latin bold italic sans-serif alphabet.
  • Add mathematical double-struck digits.
  • Enable slashed zero feature in math font.
  • Add big sizes for more brackets; \lBrack, \rBrack, \langle, \rangle, \lAngle and \rAngle.
  • Add big sizes of slash and backslash.
  • Add \widetilde, \wideutilde and \widebreve.
  • Fix side bearings of math blackboard capitals.
  • Fix math glyphs with negative left side bearing that can clash with preceding glyphs.
  • Make \vert and \Vert expansion consistent in size with the brackets.
  • Remove tone bar glyphs; the support was not adequate for proper use.
  • Remove math alphabet glyphs from text fonts.
  • Fix glyphs incorrectly categorized as mark glyphs.
  • Add Bitcoin currency symbol.
  • Fix stacking of a-ring and macron.
  • Fix “ct” and “st” historic ligatures and make them consistent across fonts.
  • Fix mark positioning over AE and OE glyphs.
  • Fix style of U+2100 (a/c), U+2101 (a/s), U+2015 (c/o) and U+2106 (c/u).
  • Fix mark positioning over G and g glyphs.
  • Make default and alternate J glyphs consistent across upright and italic fonts.
  • Make U+00BA MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR and U+00AA FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR have the same baseline in serif fonts.
  • Position semibold serif i/j dot similar to other styles.
  • Remove rudimentary MATH table from regular serif font.
  • Fix alignment of U+2192, U+2198, U+2199 in the monospace font.
  • Make more arrows fixed width in the monospace font.
  • Make capital roman numbers in sans-serif and sans-serif italic fonts actually sans-serif.
  • Make \product in sans-serif fonts actually sans-serif.
  • The fonts can now be built with upstream FontForge, no patches needed, as well as Python 3.

v6.4

6 years ago

Fix broken extensibles of the left square bracket in the math font.

v6.3

6 years ago
  • Add U+231C-231Fi and U+2A7D-2A7E to the math font.
  • Add script math alphabet based on that of XITS Math font.
  • Add monospaced math alphabet based on that of cmtt10 font with modified METAFONT parameters to better fit with Libertinus glyphs.
  • Improve math top accent positions.
  • Fix spacing of math italic i and j.
  • Increase the gap between \sum and its limits.
  • Improved math braces and brackets based on STIX Two Math font.
  • Disable optical variants of math alphanumerics that were based on the text sup/superscript glyphs as they don’t look good besides being incomplete and inconsistent.
  • Remove duplicate glyphs that caused broken GPOS generation.
  • Drop optical bounds (‘opbd’, ‘rtbd’ and ‘lfbd’) features as they were incomplete and virtually unsupported.
  • Fix text mark placement below O and o.
  • Fix oldstyle numbers feature in Libertinus Serif Semibold that had wrong glyph mapping for 6, 7, 8 and 9.
  • Use swash Q when followed by v.
  • Various consistency fixes to font names and vertical metrics.
  • Fix placement of the half ring in U+1E9A.
  • Fix several Libertinus Serif Bold italic alternate glyphs that were not bold.
  • Fix Libertinus Serif Italic U+2098-2099 (subscript m and n) that looked like superscript circled + and -.

v6.2

8 years ago
  • Fixed missing big variant rule for U+27EF.
  • Fixed swapped \phi and \varphi symbols.
  • Fixed “fi” ligature in Serif Semibold Italic with small caps feature on.
  • The “Qu” ligature is now implemented as alternate glyph substitution.
  • Added missing small cap Qu alternate glyph to serif fonts.
  • Added big radical variants.

v6.1

8 years ago
  • Renamed the fonts from Libertine to Libertinus to be complaint with the Reserved Font Name clause of Linux Libertine license. Thanks to Frédéric Wang for the new name.
  • Dropped legacy Mac platform font names.

v6.0

8 years ago

This is the first release of the forked Libertine fonts, changes since the fork include: