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• Fixed an issue that western characters in XLang variants have wrong width.

Known Issue: Intersection of contours is shown white in Windows Font Viewer. Do not worry, it’s fine in World of Warcraft.

• Fixed an issue that western characters in XLang variants have wrong width.

These are PTR cross language distributions. In these distributions, Cyrillic, Chinese and Korean characters are transliterated or transcripted to Latin letters.

For normal distributions, see #v1.0.1.

• Weights
  • Added 350 SemiLight, 450 Book, 600 SemiBold to distributions.
  • Removed 372 Normal from distributions.
  • Minor adjustment in weight interpolation.
  • Nowar Sans is now build from variable OTFs. More weights can be built from source.
• (For developer) the GB (GB18030) family has been removed.
• (For developer) the peak of memory consumption is ~ 5 GiB per job (extracting static instance from variable OTF).
• (For developer) intermediate otd files are compressed with zstd, to reduce I/O pressure.

Known Issue: Intersection of contours is shown white in Windows Font Viewer. Do not worry, it’s fine in World of Warcraft.

These are PTR cross language distributions. In these distributions, Cyrillic, Chinese and Korean characters are transliterated or transcripted to Latin letters.

For normal distributions, see #v1.0.0.

These are PTR cross language distributions. In these distributions, Cyrillic, Chinese and Korean characters are transliterated or transcripted to Latin letters.

For normal distributions, see #v0.10.0.

• Update to latest Noto Sans and Source Han Sans versions.
• New feature: PTR cross language distributions (XLang) that romanise Cyrillic, Chinese and Korean characters to Latin letters. See #v0.10.0-xlang.

Introduce kerning for World of Warcraft.

• This is implemented by adding legacy kern table to CFF-outlined OpenType font, which is not supported in OpenType specification, but works in World of Warcraft anyway.
• More than 1000 generic kering pairs, covering all letters in Adobe Latin 1 and Adobe Cyrillic 1 character set.
• Special fullwidth-colon-related (：) kerning pairs for zhCN text font (ARKai_T.ttf), trying to fix ill-behaved Mythic+ dungeon timer.

Improve Windows icons:

• base fonts (FRIZQT__.ttf and ARIALN.ttf) — the icon depends on Windows display language,
  • “文字美” for non-CJK,
  • “简体字” for Simplified Chinese,
  • “繁體字” for Traditional Chinese,
  • “あア亜” for Japanese,
  • “한글” for Korean;
• Latin and Cyrillic fonts — “Abg”;
• Simplified Chinese fonts — “简体字”;
• Traditional Chinese fonts — “繁體字”;
• Korean fonts — “한글”.

This change makes reducing font pack size much easier — you can simply switch to “large icons” and remove all files except “文字美” and the script you need.

• Regional variants:
  • The number of standard variants is reduced from 5 (CN, TW, HK, JP, KR) to 2 (Bliz, Neut);
  • The GB variant is removed;
  • 2 new pseudo-simplified variants: PSimp, PSimpChat.
• Naming:
  • All fonts now share “Nowar Sans Region” family, with proper WWS and legacy names;
  • PostScript names make no sense;
  • More localized family names —
    • Nowar Grotesk (Deutsch),
    • Νοωαρ Σανς (Ελληνικά),
    • Nowar Palo (Español),
    • Nowar Linéale (Français),
    • Nowar Senza (Italiano),
    • Nowar Sem (Português),
    • Новар Гротеск (Русский).
• SharedMedia font provider is removed.

• New weight — Normal.
  • Based on Source Han Sans’s Normal weight.
  • Slightly lighter than Regular.