Sukhumala • A Graceful Font for Body text
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Sukhumala • A Graceful Font for Body text
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Like my other free fonts, Sukhumala includes an extensive range of Latin Extended characters, Greek, Miscellaneous Symbols, Arrows, Geometric Shapes, and Dingbats. It is designed so that single line spacing is at 130% to accommodate the accents for Vietnamese. You may prefer to reduce the line-spacing to 120% for English text.
Sukhumala Typeface Sample (PDF file)
Like my other free fonts, Sukhumala includes an extensive range of Latin Extended characters, Greek, Miscellaneous Symbols, Arrows, Geometric Shapes, and Dingbats. It is designed so that single line spacing is at 130% to accommodate the accents for Vietnamese. You may prefer to reduce the line-spacing to 120% for English text.
Sukhumala Typeface Sample (PDF file)
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Updated to version 1.40 with some more standard ligatures (fff and fffl) and discretionary ligatures (sf sfi sfy sh sk)
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Sukhumala version 1.50 adds a Hand Tooled type style, complete with Petite Capitals, Small Capitals, Superscripts for ordinals, and all other glyphs for the OpenType Features. This style should be regarded as a Beta, as it may be changed.
Please let me know if you spot any anomalies or bugs.
Please let me know if you spot any anomalies or bugs.
Re: Sukhumala — A Graceful Font for Body text
I've always known that one as the 'Place of Interest' sign. I'm not a Mac user, but I think it's actually the Command key; reading up on the Option key just now, the symbol for it looks like this: ⌥.Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:I have also added a Mac Option Key symbol to the Miscellaneous Technical symbols (Place of Interest).
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⌘ (U+2318) Command Key
⌥ (U+2325) Option Key
⇧ (U+21E7) Shift Key
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Thanks Alfred.
Version 1.70 adds a glyph for the Macintosh Option key (Option Key, hex 2325) in the Miscellaneous Technical character set.
Upwards White arrow (U+21E7) Shift Key is already there in the Arrows character set.
Version 1.70 adds a glyph for the Macintosh Option key (Option Key, hex 2325) in the Miscellaneous Technical character set.
Upwards White arrow (U+21E7) Shift Key is already there in the Arrows character set.
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Version 1.83 completes the Number Forms, Currency, Latin Extended Additional, and Dingbats character sets for Unicode 8.0.
The Localised Forms for Roman Numerals were removed to avoid some bugs.
Version 1.83 fixed some more bugs, and improved kerning pairs.
The fraction feature should now work correctly. Let me know your results.
The Localised Forms for Roman Numerals were removed to avoid some bugs.
Version 1.83 fixed some more bugs, and improved kerning pairs.
The fraction feature should now work correctly. Let me know your results.
Re: Sukhumala — A Graceful Font for Body text
Nice, very nice font, but its small caps are too large, aren't they? Or it is a bug within last version?
Re: Sukhumala — A Graceful Font for Body text
I think you're confusing small caps with petite caps.2pasos wrote:Nice, very nice font, but its small caps are too large, aren't they?
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Re: Sukhumala — A Graceful Font for Body text
Since I include both Petite Capitals (x-height capitals) and Small Capitals in my fonts, I design the Small Capitals to be useful for headings rather than for acroynmns. Sukhumala includes both sizes.2pasos wrote:Nice, very nice font, but its small caps are too large, aren't they? Or it is a bug within last version?
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Re: Sukhumala — A Graceful Font for Body text
Version 2.00 fixed some more bugs and made some improvements using the new features in FontCreator 10.1.
- Added Localized Forms for Romanian
- Added fij and ij acute ligatures for Dutch
- Added a missing substitution for l middle dot in the lookups for Small Caps and Petite Caps
- Improved currency symbols for Turkish Lira and Georgian Lari
- Used smaller cedilla and ogonek accents for Small Capitals and Petite Capitals
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Version 2.10 improved some ogonek contours, added four glyphs with ogonek for Nordic, and added some more kerning pairs.
Following this discussion on Typedrawers I decided to modify the way that glyphs with ogonek were designed, making a smoother transition between the accent and the base glyph.
Following this discussion on Typedrawers I decided to modify the way that glyphs with ogonek were designed, making a smoother transition between the accent and the base glyph.
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The standard fractions were not quite right, so version 2.11 improves them.
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Re: Sukhumala — A Graceful Font for Body text
Very nice and you know far more about typography than me but ... I thought that the attachment points on the capital i and capital a might be a little wrong. On the 'Polish Diacritics : How to?' website (http://www.twardoch.com/download/polish ... gonek.html) it says :-
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Just like the ones in Kelvinch don't, I was researching the correct way to do this and it will be corrected in the new font.There are two correct ways of attaching ogonek to the base serif of capital A. The attaching point can be either placed in the centre of the stem or may be merged with the inner part of the base serif. Attaching ogonek to the outer part of the base serif are very incorrect!
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Re: Sukhumala — A Graceful Font for Body text
Version 2.20 changed these to Discretionary Ligatures as they cause some problems for Spanish.