Gentium Plus v5.960 beta2
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This is a beta version of the next major release.
Please use it only for testing, not production, and give us your feedback.
We have tried to address all reported issues from beta1 in this beta, however some fixes may still be in process.
This major release includes spacing changes to some glyphs, so text in existing documents may reflow. However, the spacing changes are mostly for rare glyphs that most users are not likely to use. If you see significant differences in layout between version 5.000 and this version of the fonts please let us know.
Please send any feedback to [email protected] - Thank you!
Major changes since version 5.000
- Added new weights (Book, Bold, Book Bold, and corresponding italics) previously only available in the "Gentium Basic" fonts, although note that the new weights may not be identical in metrics or form to the Basic fonts, though care has been taken to minimize differences.
- Web fonts are provided in both WOFF and WOFF2 formats.
- First (beta) release that uses a UFO-based design and production workflow
- All sources are in open formats
- Build toolkit and workflow is completely open-source
- See https://silnrsi.github.io/silfontdev/en-US/Introduction.html
- Graphite support has been removed - see below.
Characters added to support Unicode versions 7.0-13.0
- Includes feature support (e.g. small caps) where appropriate
- U+1AB0 COMBINING DOUBLED CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
- U+1AB1 COMBINING DIAERESIS-RING
- U+1AB2 COMBINING INFINITY
- U+1AB3 COMBINING DOWNWARDS ARROW
- U+1AB4 COMBINING TRIPLE DOT
- U+1AB5 COMBINING X-X BELOW
- U+1AB6 COMBINING WIGGLY LINE BELOW
- U+1AB7 COMBINING OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AB8 COMBINING DOUBLE OPEN MARK BELOW
- U+1AB9 COMBINING LIGHT CENTRALIZATION STROKE BELOW
- U+1ABA COMBINING STRONG CENTRALIZATION STROKE BELOW
- U+1DF5 COMBINING UP TACK ABOVE
- U+203B REFERENCE MARK
- U+20BE LARI SIGN
- U+20BF BITCOIN SIGN
- U+27E8 MATHEMATICAL LEFT ANGLE BRACKET
- U+27E9 MATHEMATICAL RIGHT ANGLE BRACKET
- U+2E13 DOTTED OBELOS
- U+2E14 DOWNWARDS ANCORA
- U+2E17 DOUBLE OBLIQUE HYPHEN
- U+2E22 TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET
- U+2E23 TOP RIGHT HALF BRACKET
- U+2E24 BOTTOM LEFT HALF BRACKET
- U+2E25 BOTTOM RIGHT HALF BRACKET
- U+A78F LATIN LETTER SINOLOGICAL DOT
- U+A7AE LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SMALL CAPITAL I
- U+A7AF LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Q
- U+A7B3 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER CHI
- U+A7B4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER BETA
- U+A7B5 LATIN SMALL LETTER BETA
- U+A7B6 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA
- U+A7B7 LATIN SMALL LETTER OMEGA
- U+A7B8 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH STROKE
- U+A7B9 LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH STROKE
- U+AB30 LATIN SMALL LETTER BARRED ALPHA
- U+AB53 LATIN SMALL LETTER CHI
- U+AB5C MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG
- U+AB5E MODIFIER LETTER SMALL L WITH MIDDLE TILDE
- U+F26E CAPITAL RAMS HORN (in SIL PUA)
Feature changes
- Added two new features for controlling literacy forms of a and g separately
- Literacy a alternates (ss02)
- Literacy g alternates (ss03)
- Added feature to support side-by-side rendering of U+0300 plus U+0301 - Kayan diacritics (cv79)
- Added support for clicks to small caps feature and improved other small cap correspondences
- Reduced size of the Greek prosgegrammeni (adscript iota) used with capital forms, and added a new feature to display it as a subscript (ypogegrammeni) under capitals (cv83)
- Replaced font features documentation with updated version in a new format (see documentation/DoulosSIL-font-features.html)
Other improvements
- Improved miscellaneous anchor positions, including the position of diacritics below glyphs with macrons below (e.g. U+1E0F LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH LINE BELOW)
- Numerous other fixes and improvements to various glyphs, including:
- U+01E5 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH STROKE (bar position on single-story variant)
- U+02D6 MODIFIER LETTER PLUS SIGN (size)
- U+0315 COMBINING COMMA ABOVE RIGHT (made spacing)
- U+033B COMBINING SQUARE BELOW (more rectangular)
- U+1D02 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED AE (made double-story in italic)
- U+1D15 LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL OU (form)
- U+1D46 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL TURNED AE (made double-story in italic)
- U+1D77 LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED G (position)
- U+1D78 MODIFIER LETTER CYRILLIC EN (form)
- U+2053 SWUNG DASH
- U+A75B LATIN SMALL LETTER R ROTUNDA (spacing)
- U+A76A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ET
- U+A76B LATIN SMALL LETTER ET
- U+A76C LATIN CAPITAL LETTER IS
- U+A76D LATIN SMALL LETTER IS
- U+A77F LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED INSULAR G (position)
- U+A7F8 MODIFIER LETTER CAPITAL H WITH STROKE (form)
- U+A7FA LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL TURNED M (italic)
- Applied new hinting techniques to try to improve screen rendering on Windows
Removals
- Removed the "Show Invisibles" feature
- Removed support for nine-level pitch contours. These will be replaced
by a standalone pitch contours font in the future - Removed DSIGs added in version 5.000. These have now been removed to
reflect current best practice font development guidance. Adobe InDesign
will complain that fonts cannot be found if a document last saved with
version 5.000 is opened with version 5.960 or later installed. It will
be necessary to find/replace the fonts in the document using the command
in the Type menu. Please also look over the document carefully to note
any places where changes in the fonts have affected letterforms or spacing. - Graphite has been removed. Application and OS support for OpenType has
greatly improved, so the need for Graphite in this font family is greatly
reduced. If this affects you, and you find that OpenType does not provide
sufficient support for your needs, please contact us right away.
Remaining known issues with this beta release
- Tone letters (U+02E5..02E9) and related features are not working properly
- There is no support for TypeTuner
- There are no regional subsets