Pfennig font

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Pfennig is a humanist sans-serif font with support for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew character sets. It contains sufficient characters for Latin-0 through Latin-10, as well as glyphs for all modern Cyrillic orthographies, the full Vietnamese range, modern Greek, modern Hebrew, and the Pan-African Alphabet. It supports the standard Roman ligatures and uses OpenType tables for diacritic placement. The italic faces are true italics, not just oblique.

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Pfennig font family
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This file provides detailed information on the Pfennig family of fonts.
This information should be distributed along with the Pfennig fonts and
any derivative works.


Basic Font Information
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Pfennig is a sans-serif font with support for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew
character sets. It contains sufficient characters for Latin-0 through Latin-10,
as well as all modern Cyrillic scripts, the full Vietnamese range, modern Greek,
modern Hebrew, and the Pan-African Alphabet. It supports the standard Roman
ligatures and uses OpenType tables for diacritic placement.

Pfennig supports the following Unicode ranges:

Range Description Coverage
..............................................
U+0020-U+007F Basic Latin Full
U+00A0-U+00FF Latin-1 Supplement Full
U+0100-U+017F Latin Extended-A Full
U+0180-U+024F Latin Extended-B 142/208
U+0250-U+02AF IPA Extensions 32/96
U+02B0-U+02FF Spacing Modifiers 18/80
U+0300-U+036F Combining Diacritics 34/112
U+0370-U+03FF Greek 74/134
U+0400-U+04FF Cyrillic 214/256
U+0500-U+052F Cyrillic Supplement 10/38
U+0590-U+05FF Hebrew 27/87
U+1DC0-U+1DFF Comb. Diacritic Supp. 4/42
U+1E00-U+1EFF Latin Extended Add'l 173/256
U+2000-U+206F General Punctuation 19/107
U+2070-U+209F Super/Subscripts 1/42
U+20A0-U+20CF Currency Symbols 1/25 (Euro sign only)
U+2100-U+214F Letterlike Symbols 2/80
U+2200-U+22FF Mathematical Operators 2/256
U+25A0-U+25FF Geometric Shapes 1/96 (Dotted circle only)
U+2C60-U+2C7F Latin Extended-C 5/32
U+A720-U+A7FF Latin Extended-D 5/129
U+FB00-U+FB06 Latin Ligatures 5/7 (all except archaic ligatures)

ChangeLog
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2011-09-24 Added a few African Latin glyphs; improved Cyrillic breve; major
spacing improvements in italics; improved TTF hints.
2010-08-31 Further refinements of Vietnamese range in all faces.
2010-08-04 Added several obscure African letters. Corrected some stacked
diacritics. Corrected proposed codepoint for H with hook.
2010-06-23 Added modern Hebrew and Greek ranges
2010-06-17 Added all anchors needed for diacritic attachment for
Pan-African to upright fonts; italic fonts are by nature unsuitable
for Pan-African due to stylistic clashes (e.g. between a and alpha).
Improved lowercase thorn in all fonts. Added dropped umlaut on A, O
and U in upright fonts, accessible as ss01.
2010-06-04 Finished up requirements for Pan-African Alphabet;
improved Vietnamese italic & bold-italic
2010-04-23 Completed support for all Cyrillic codepoints for modern
orthographies.
2010-04-14 More glyphs: African, modern Pinyin, Amerindian
2010-04-12 Moved non-Unicode glyphs to PUA; added a few more African
glyphs.
2010-04-06 Diacritic improvement in Bold Vietnamese. Additional glyphs
for Skolt Sami, the Pan-Nigerian Alphabet, and various other
African languages.
2010-03-31 Further spacing enhancements in non-italic. Improvements in
Vietnamese range in Medium to prevent excessive diacritic
height. Spacing improvements in italic ligatures.
2009-09-18 Major overhaul of spacing in non-italic
2009-08-06 Added Vietnamese range.
2009-07-30 Kerned Latin ranges.
2009-07-29 Added Cyrillic range.
2009-07-24 Initial release


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 Pfennig font, 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
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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.
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