benlk / elian-wide-capitals-light

Elian Wide Capitals Light, a right-angled bare-bones font in OTF, TTF, WOFF and FontForge source files.

Elian Wide Capitals

A geometric sans-serif with the following characteristics:

• vertical-aligned (as much as possible) small letters
• horizontally-aligned large letters
• x height of half of ascender height

It does not have numerals, as numerals were never specified in C.C. Elian's original document.

Honestly, having the ascender and descender be a full x-height, and having the the stroke widths so thin, probably means that this is a display font and not a general body font. Oh well.

Notes on licensing

<img alt="Open Font License"src="http://scripts.sil.org/cms/sites/nrsi/media/OFL_logo_rect_color.png"/>

This is under the SIL Open Font License, under the name "Elian Wide Capitals Light EWCL_1", with a Reserved Font Name "EWCL_1". That means that if you want to make a derivative of this font, you can name it whatever you want, as long as it's not named a name that uses "EWCL_1".

The OFL is considered free by the Free Software Foundation, in case you were worried.

If you decide to contribute to the development of this font (Please do!), you agree to license your work under the SIL OFL.

If you decide to fork this font and take it in another direction ... you still have to use the SIL OFL, but you also have to change the name of the font.

How to contribute

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md

Thanks

• To BuzzFeed and Nicole Nguyen for writing this article:https://www.buzzfeed.com/nicolenguyen/how-you-do-dat
• To the maintainers of MyScriptFont.com: http://www.myscriptfont.com/
• To C. C. Elian, for creating this script: http://www.ccelian.com/ElianScriptFull.html
• To the SIL Open Font License authors: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=OFL-FAQ_web
• To the FontForge maintainers: https://fontforge.github.io/

elian-wide-capitals-light's Issues

character variants

Essentially, generate a variant character for all second-cycle and third-cycle characters that swaps the location of the long tail. For the fifth character in each cycle, ALL THE VARIANT LONG TAIL LOCATIONS!

Needs better punctuation

• exclamation point
• exclamation point inverted
• question mark
• question mark inverted
• parentheses
• curly braces
• square braces

Kerning adjustments!

• generate list of common kerning issues in Elian fonts

needs hyphens

needs:

• • DASH
• – EN DASH
• — EM DASH

& should be a composition of et, not etc

• remove the c from the & glyph.