motaitalic / vesper-libre

vesper-libre

Vesper Devanagari was began by Rob Keller in 2006, initially inspiring Vesper's Latin letterforms. The Devanagari character set was completed in 2014 through the collaboration with Kimya Gandhi. Vesper has a classical foundation, but with an entirely modern appearance, making reading comfortable, but never boring.

Vesper Libre is a special web version that has been optimized for online use. Tiny details have been simplified and the character set is reduced for the perfect balance of beautiful web typography with fast page loading.

August 2014: Update: The character set was reduced more to remove most existing linear conjuncts and some combinations of letters & marks that are produced using only components. These can all still be made in the exact same way thanks to anchors and kerning, so there's no loss of typographic quality, but the file size is more optimized for web usage.

March 2015: Major release: added some characters, deleted a few, adjusted anchors, made some new contextual alternates, and fixed a ton of opentype bugs. Small enhancements may be implemented in the future, but for now, this is the final release for Vesper Libre.

vesper-libre's Issues

Minor changes

• NAME table IDs with platformID=1 should be removed
• ttfautohint settings should be recorded in the NAME table ID 5
• Heavy style should be renamed to Black
• Heavy style should not be style linked as Medium Bold, only Regular-Bold and Italic-BoldItalic should be style linked

error in view word Given in image

Vertical Metrics not ymin/ymax of family

The vertical metrics may cause clipping because they are not the ymin/ymax of the font:

Parameter              VesperLibre-Bold.ttf    VesperLibre-Heavy.ttf    VesperLibre-Medium.ttf    VesperLibre-Regular.ttf    
ymax                   2241                    2330                     2184                      2097                       
hhea.ascent            1922                    1922                     1922                      1922                       
OS/2.sTypoAscender     1922                    1922                     1922                      1922                       
OS/2.usWinAscent       1922                    1922                     1922                      1922                       
ymin                   -1473                   -1550                    -1424                     -1345                      
hhea.descent           -1005                   -1005                    -1005                     -1005                      
OS/2.sTypoDescender    -1005                   -1005                    -1005                     -1005                      
OS/2.usWinDescent      1005                    1005                     1005                      1005                       
hhea.lineGap           0                       0                        0                         0                          
OS/2.sTypoLineGap      0                       0                        0                         0                          
hhea total             2927                    2927                     2927                      2927                       
typo total             2927                    2927                     2927                      2927                       
win total              2927                    2927                     2927                      2927                       
UPM:Heights            2048:3714               2048:3880                2048:3608                 2048:3442                  
UPM:Heights %          181 %                   189 %                    176 %                     168 %                      

High Glyphs
VesperLibre-Bold.ttf: uni09010930094D uni09450930094D uni09490930094D uni094909020930094D
VesperLibre-Heavy.ttf: uni09010930094D uni09450930094D uni09490930094D uni094909020930094D uni0901
VesperLibre-Medium.ttf: uni09010930094D uni09450930094D uni09490930094D uni094909020930094D
VesperLibre-Regular.ttf: uni09010930094D uni09450930094D uni09490930094D uni094909020930094D

Low Glyphs
VesperLibre-Bold.ttf: uni093C094D uni093C094D0930 uni093C094D09300941 uni093C094D09300942
VesperLibre-Heavy.ttf: uni093C094D uni093C094D0930 uni093C094D09300941 uni093C094D09300942
VesperLibre-Medium.ttf: uni093C094D uni093C094D09300941 uni093C094D09300942
VesperLibre-Regular.ttf: uni093C094D uni093C094D09300941 uni093C094D09300942

Please set all 3 vertical metrics to 2330/-1550

Improve release versioning

Github has a release versioning system - https://www.google.com/search?q=github+releases - which would be good to use.

I also recommend adopting the www.semver.org version numbering convention.

UFOs won't build with RoboFont

fontforge/fontforge#1515 (comment)

No Italics

Since I found this font on Google Fonts, I wonder if it's planned to make the Italics open source, too? I would rather live without the medium and heavy weights than without the italics. Unfortunately, a font without italics is in most scenarios not really applicable. In my opinion, more people would use the font if the typical basic styles like bold and italic are available and you can keep “expert” styles or additional character sets for commercial use.

Inconsistent copyright strings

The copyright strings should match in

• the LICENSE file
• the source .glyphs file
• the binaries' NAME tables

The string should be Copyright (c) 2007, Rob Keller ([email protected])

Non Zero fsType

The fstype is 0 in VesperLibre-Bold.ttf which is good, but it is 8 in the other 3 TTFs. Please change them to 0 :)

Some Nukta positions

With the current version, the nukta position of these glyphs looks like it can be improved :)

ऴ्फ़ ऴ्य़ ऴ्ज़ ऴ्क़ ऴ्ख़

Image from http://www.impallari.com/testing/index-devanagari.php :

Glyphs files are missing

According to fontforge/fontforge#1515 (comment) the source files are Glyphs App files?

र्‍य not rendered properly.

The consonant part of letter र i.e., र् if comes in conjunction with य in certain cases (always in the beginning) should be rendered as it appears in other fonts like Eczar. It is entered as र + ् + zwj. But vespar-libre font doesn't render them as it should.

Improve comparison page in Testing PDF

https://github.com/motaitalic/vesper-libre/blob/master/Samples/VesperLibreTest.pdf is awesome, but the line breaking of the comparison page 5 with Adobe Devanagari is different in either sample, so its inconvenient to locate the corresponding glyphs. Perhaps the line breaking could be the same, or instead of

aaaaa
bbbbb
ccccc

xxxxx
yyyyy
zzzzz

you could interleave them like

aaaaa
xxxxx
bbbbb
yyyyy
ccccc
zzzzz

k_t_ta-deva naming

Sign k_t_ta-deva should be renamed to k_ta-deva
So ng_k_t_ta-deva should be renamed to ng_k_ta-deva

Kerning concerns

@motaitalic

• My name contains Té. Te is kerned, but not Té. Have you checked kerning on diacritics?
• It seems like Vo and Va or similar could use some neg.kerning
• U + lowercase could use neg.kerning

Consonants question

In http://www.impallari.com/testing/index-devanagari.php here is the rendering of

ऱ्क ऱ्ख ऱ्ग ऱ्घ ऱ्ङ ऱ्च ऱ्छ ऱ्ज ऱ्झ ऱ्ञ ऱ्ट ऱ्ठ ऱ्ड ऱ्ढ ऱ्ण ऱ्त ऱ्थ ऱ्द ऱ्ध ऱ्न ऱ्ऩ ऱ्प ऱ्फ ऱ्ब ऱ्भ ऱ्म ऱ्य ऱ्र ऱ्ऱ ऱ्ल ऱ्ळ ऱ्ऴ ऱ्व ऱ्श ऱ्ष ऱ्स ऱ्ह ऱ्क़ ऱ्ख़ ऱ्ग़ ऱ्ज़ ऱ्ड़ ऱ्ढ़ ऱ्फ़ ऱ्य़

with the current version from this repo:

Here is the Devanagari MT mac default:

These look very different... why do they look so different? :)