News Cycle font

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News Cycle is a realist, sans-serif typeface based primarily on a revival of the 1908-era News Gothic, the stalwart newspaper face from American Type Founders (ATF). Like News Gothic, it is designed for clarity and readability in large blocks of copy, but to still look good in headline-sizes at the top of the page. It also extends News Gothic to better cover more of the world's orthographies, starting with Eastern European and African languages, and soon Greek and Cyrillic alphabets as well.

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FONTLOG for News Cycle
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This file provides detailed information on the News Cycle Font Software.
This information should be distributed along with the News Cycle fonts
and any derivative works.

Basic Font Information
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News Cycle is a realist, sans-serif typeface based primarily on a revival of the
1908 News Gothic face by American Type Founders (ATF).

The package currently contains the Regular and Bold weights.

ChangeLog
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26 Mar 2012 (Nathan Willis)
- Merged iKern kerning for Bold Latin.
- Generating a 0.5 release which includes Bold Latin.
08 Feb 2012 (Nathan Willis)
- Bold letterspacing done for Basic Latin.
- Tweaked w, W, M
- subsetting Bold to make 0.5 release, which will contain a Latin-1-only Bold, with extended Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to follow in 0.6.
21 Dec 2011 (Nathan Willis)
- Bold glyphs generally completed for Basic Latin.
- Metrics have NOT yet been adjusted for Bold.
07 Dec 2011 (Nathan Willis)
- branching for 0.4 release
- cloned initial Bold from News Cycle Regular
03 Oct 2011 (Nathan Willis)
- finished Greek, Coptic, Math glyphs
- regularized metrics
- exported gigantic namelist
25 Jul 2011 (Nathan Willis)
- finished Cyrillic glyphs
- began working on remaining basic mathematical glyphs
04 Jul 2011 (Nathan Willis)
- basic Cyrillic added, upper and lower case
- started archaic & extended Cyrillic
- cleanup of existing mathematical symbols (stroke & vertical alignment)
- added a few additional mathematical symbols
- added a few Greek glyphs
07 Apr 2011 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.2
- cleanup completed
- vertical metrics fixed
- reserved font name corrected in metadata
- auto-hinting and auto-instructing by FF
28 Jan 2011 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.9
- doing cleanup for first supported public release
- added Latin Extended B glyphs (except those using hook or loop).
- added wynn, kra, Latin long s, some miscellaneous math
- added ff, fi, ffl, ffi ligatures
- adjusted stroke width on ordinals, ring, copyright, reserved, trademark, @, and other misc letterlike symbols
17 Jan 2011 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.8
- added more Latin Extended B glyphs, Greek and Cyrillic duplicate glyphs.
- cleanup on spacing and accents for Eastern European languages and non-alphabetic characters.
02 Oct 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.7 - added several European and African glyphs, regularized all curved baselines & heights; basic spacing complete.
03 Sep 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.6
- added punctuation, Icelandic glyphs.
01 Sep 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.5
- tentatively happy with basic glyph outlines, working on metrics.
20 Aug 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.3
- Finished basic Latin alphabet import.
04 Aug 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version .002
- Changed name to News Cycle.
- Added most of Latin alphabet characters and some punctuation. Missing are specimens of (4 J Z b c j q w x) and several punctuation marks.
02 Jul 2010 (Nathan Willis) Newsworthy Version .001
- Initial release of font "Newsworthy" with the characters (a d h e s i o n H O R X M Q 3 5 6)
traced from the out-of-copyright ATF 1912 specimen of News Gothic.
- Outlines created in Inkscape.
- Initial metrics auto-generated by FontForge, with additional tweaks added by hand.

Acknowledgements
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N: Nathan Willis
E: [email protected]
W: http://www.freesoftwhere.org
D: Instigator - glyphs and code

Copyright (c) 2010-2011, Nathan Willis ([email protected]),
with Reserved Font Name "News Cycle."

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:
http://scripts.sil.org/OFL


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