Judson font

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Judson is a serif font designed for African literacy. It contains as many glyphs and precomposed combinations that I know of for all African languages written in Latin-derived alphabets. It uses OpenType tables for correct placement of diacritical marks, including stacked marks. Care has been taken so that all characters are easily distinguished, even in the italic face. The medium roman face has support for the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

Currently Judson is only available in medium roman, italic and bold roman faces; at this time there is no bold italic.

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Judson font
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This file provides detailed information on the Judson font.
This information should be distributed along with the Judson font and any
derivative works.


Basic Font Information
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Judson is a serif font designed for African literacy. It contains as many glyphs
and precomposed combinations that I know of for all African languages written in
Latin-derived alphabets. It uses OpenType tables for correct placement of
diacritical marks, including stacked marks. Care has been taken so that all
characters are easily distinguished, even in the italic face. The medium roman
face also contains support for the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

Currently Judson is only available in roman, italic and bold faces; at this
time there is no bold italic.

Judson is not suitable for setting Icelandic or Old/Middle English texts,
because the uppercase Eth (U+00D0) takes a unique African form.

ChangeLog
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- 2011-11-06 Improved Vietnamese U-horn and all letters with ogonek. Also
improved apostrophe-style caron on straight letters d, L, l,
and t. Updated hinting with ttfautohint-0.5.
- 2011-08-31 Restored some references that had been lost when font was re-
spaced. Added a few glyphs in use in some African languages.
Hinted with ttfautohint.
- 2011-04-26 Re-spaced and re-kerned entire font. First Google web font API
release.
- 2011-01-27 Widened digit 1; improved digit 8 in bold; brought figure-height
up to cap-height.
- 2010-09-03 Added IPA glyphs to medium roman face
- 2010-09-01 Added italic face; improved spacing of capital J
- 2010-08-31 Improved Vietnamese stacked diacritic placement based on the
recommendations found at
http://www.riverland.net.au/~clytie/viet/fonts.html
- 2010-08-30 Added bold weight and standard ligatures
- 2010-08-24 Widened bowl of lowercase b and g; Added a few precomposed glyphs
from the Latin Ext. B range
- 2010-08-18 Initial release

Unicode Glyph Ranges
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- U+0000 - U+007E Basic Latin Full coverage
- U+00A0 - U+00FF Latin-1 Supp. Full Coverage
- U+0100 - U+017F Latin Ext. A 127/128
- U+0180 - U+024F Latin Ext. B 85/208
- U+0250 - U+02AF IPA Extensions 27/96, 79/96 in Roman
- U+02B0 - U+02FF Spacing Modifiers 65/80
- U+0300 - U+036F Comb. Diacritics 74/112
- U+0370 - U+03FF Greek 4/134
- U+1DC0 - U+1DFF Comb. Diac. Supp. 4/42
- U+1E00 - U+1EFF Latin Ext. Add'l 161/256
- U+2000 - U+206F Gen. Punctuation 16/107
- U+2070 - U+209F Super/Subscripts 17/42
- U+20A0 - U+20CF Currency 3/25
- U+2100 - U+214F Letterlike Sym. 5/80
- U+2C60 - U+2C7F Latin Ext. C 4/32
- U+A720 - U+A7FF Latin Ext. D 5/129
- U+FB00 - U+FB06 Latin Ligatures 5/7 (in upright faces only)

Information for Contributors
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This font is licensed under the Open Font License (OFL). There is no Reserved
Name clause for the Judson fonts, enabling the free conversion between font
formats.

You can read more about the OFL here:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

If you'd like to make changes to the original font, you are free to contact
the author of the original font (for contact information, please see the
"Contributors" section below). Glyph changes should be in a FontForge .sfd
file (please make sure your version of FontForge is reasonably up-to-date).
Please send *only* the changed glyphs, not the entire font range. The author
reserves the right to reject or modify any contributions. If your contribution
is accepted, your name will appear in the Contributors section (unless you
specify otherwise).


Contributors
------------

Daniel Johnson (font maintainer)
il.basso.buffo at gmail dot com
http://io.debian.net/~danielj/

Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Daniel Johnson ().

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
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