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Just came across Google Noto Modi font. The efforts taken are highly appreciated. Though, some characters doesn't appear for how they should be ("A" and "Ma" are not correct). What should be done to rectify the errors in the font?

How can I make my own Modi font which will be visible as the characters and not tofu, in the digital world?

Font

NotoSansModi-Regular.otf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/115d38430d957d38307457c036302b7bdbe0bbc4/phaseIII_only/unhinted/otf/NotoSansModi/NotoSansModi-Regular.otf
Date: 2020-04-02

Font version

Version 2.000

Issue

In this font, the shape of the subjoined ra depends on whether there is one consonant in the cluster or many. It should actually depend on the shape of the bottom of the base to which it attaches.

Character data

𑘏𑘿𑘨𑘝𑘿𑘏𑘿𑘨
U+1160F MODI LETTER KHA
U+1163F MODI SIGN VIRAMA
U+11628 MODI LETTER RA
U+1161D MODI LETTER TA
U+1163F MODI SIGN VIRAMA
U+1160F MODI LETTER KHA
U+1163F MODI SIGN VIRAMA
U+11628 MODI LETTER RA

Screenshot

Title

Some letters in 'Modi Script' looks wrong.

Font

NotoSansModi-Regular.ttf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/master/phaseIII_only/hinted/ttf/NotoSansModi/NotoSansModi-Regular.ttf
Date: 2020-06-12 (preferred format)

Font Version

Version 2.000

Issue

Some Letters in NotoSansModi-Regular.ttf font looks wrong. Attaching screenshots for the same.

Screenshot

Letter DDHA UTF-8:F0 91 98 9B
how it looks

how ti should be

Letter A UTF-8:F0 91 98 80
how it looks

how it looks

Letter AA UTF-8:F0 91 98 81
how it looks

how it should be

Letter LLA UTF-8:F0 91 98 AF
how it looks

how it should be

Letter TA UTF-8:F0 91 98 9D
how it looks

how it should be

Letter BA UTF-8:F0 91 98 A4
how it looks

how it should be

Font

NotoSansModi-Regular.ttf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/blob/dbfc8a1858732279842454cac5da2ea1ff691a24/hinted/NotoSansModi-Regular.ttf
Date: 2018-10-22

Font version

Version 2.000;GOOG;noto-source:20181019:f8f3770

Issue

The Modi repha interrupts consonant–vowel ligatures.

Character data

𑘧𑘰𑘨𑘿𑘧𑘰
U+11627 MODI LETTER YA
U+11630 MODI VOWEL SIGN AA
U+11628 MODI LETTER RA
U+1163F MODI SIGN VIRAMA
U+11627 MODI LETTER YA
U+11630 MODI VOWEL SIGN AA

Screenshot

Title

Shiroregha (Horizontal line above letters and digits) is missing for Digits in NotoSansModi font.

Font

NotoSansModi-Regular.ttf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/master/phaseIII_only/hinted/ttf/NotoSansModi/NotoSansModi-Regular.ttf
Date: 2020-06-12

Font Version

Version 2.000

Issue

In Modi script Shiroregha never breaks so the digits have Shiroregha same as the letters. In NotoSansModi-Regular.ttf font shiroregha is missing for the Digits.

Character data

MODI DIGIT ZERO U+11650 𑙐
MODI DIGIT ONE U+11651 𑙑
MODI DIGIT TWO U+11652 𑙒
MODI DIGIT THREE U+11653 𑙓
MODI DIGIT FOUR U+11654 𑙔
MODI DIGIT FIVE U+11655 𑙕
MODI DIGIT SIX U+11656 𑙖
MODI DIGIT SEVEN U+11657 𑙗
MODI DIGIT EIGHT U+11658 𑙘
MODI DIGIT NINE U+11659 𑙙

Screenshot

MODI DIGIT ZERO with Shiroregha(Overline)

Font

NotoSansModi-Regular.otf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/9b479a1e7c843da5ea247530a8578f288b49f870/unhinted/otf/NotoSansModi/NotoSansModi-Regular.otf
Date: 2022-03-05

Font version

Version 2.001

Issue

Kr̥ has a glyph that looks identical to dka. No similar character combinations transform similarly, so this is probably a mistake.

Character data

𑘎𑘵𑘟𑘿𑘎
U+1160E MODI LETTER KA
U+11635 MODI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R
U+1161F MODI LETTER DA
U+1163F MODI SIGN VIRAMA
U+1160E MODI LETTER KA

Screenshot

Font

NotoSansModi-Regular.otf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/115d38430d957d38307457c036302b7bdbe0bbc4/phaseIII_only/unhinted/otf/NotoSansModi/NotoSansModi-Regular.otf
Date: 2020-04-02

Font version

Version 2.000

Issue

In this font, dña looks like dna. The former gets a special ligated glyph and the latter gets the regular sequence of half da and full na. Dña isn’t special: it should look like the regular sequence of half da and full ña. The current special ligated glyph could be reassigned to dna or just deleted.

All of this goes for dñā and dñu too.

Character data

𑘟𑘿𑘗𑘟𑘿𑘡
U+1161F MODI LETTER DA
U+1163F MODI SIGN VIRAMA
U+11617 MODI LETTER NYA
U+1161F MODI LETTER DA
U+1163F MODI SIGN VIRAMA
U+11621 MODI LETTER NA

Screenshot

Font

NotoSansModi-Regular.otf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/blob/cacbdb4e73916a4e929569e3368a26240ae9a9e8/phaseIII_only/unhinted/otf/NotoSansModi/NotoSansModi-Regular.otf
Date: 2018-09-26

Font version

Version 2.000

Issue

U+1163F MODI SIGN VIRAMA induces the repha or half form of the preceding consonant, even when not before a letter.

Character data

𑘗𑘿
U+11617 MODI LETTER NYA
U+1163F MODI SIGN VIRAMA

Screenshot

Font

NotoSansModi-Regular from this repo as of this date.

OS name and Application

Chrome (Version 81.0.4044.92 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Arch Linux)

Issue

Open https://vvasuki.github.io/saMskAra/mantraH/indraH/Rk/apratiratham/?&transliteration_target=modi on Chrome version described above vs firefox.

You get bad rendering (Tofus) as shown below:

Additional info

• Please note that the problem does not appear on Firefox
• Further, note that analogous problems existed on some older versions of NotoSansKannada-Regular, NotoSansTelugu-Regular, NotoSansMalayalam-Regular, NotoSansTamil-Regular etc.., but were solved when the latest fonts from this repository were used. Also see https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/issues/1752
• Please see sanskrit-coders/sanskrit-documentation-theme-hugo#7 for related discussion.

Font

NotoSansModi-Regular.otf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/notofonts/modi/releases/tag/NotoSansModi-v2.002
Date: 2022-09-20

Font version

Version 2.002

Issue

The glyphs DNaa and DNu are not used. This was probably unintentional.

Character data

𑘟𑘿𑘡𑘰𑘟𑘿𑘡𑘳
U+1161F MODI LETTER DA
U+1163F MODI SIGN VIRAMA
U+11621 MODI LETTER NA
U+11630 MODI VOWEL SIGN AA
U+1161F MODI LETTER DA
U+1163F MODI SIGN VIRAMA
U+11621 MODI LETTER NA
U+11633 MODI VOWEL SIGN U

Screenshot

Font

NotoSansModi-Regular.otf

Where the font came from, and when

Site: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/blob/fcf8d5d5568fc96efcc4cbe6f9fbd402f62de98a/phaseIII_only/unhinted/otf/NotoSansModi/NotoSansModi-Regular.otf
Date: 2020-05-06

Font version

Version 2.000

Issue

The special form of ra before -ā takes precedence in this font over the kāra ligature, leading to the incorrect rendering of kārā. It should look like the kāra ligature followed by the normal vowel sign -ā; cf. karā and kāri. L2/11-212R2, p. 9 gives an example of karā.

Character data

𑘎𑘰𑘨𑘰𑘎𑘨𑘰𑘎𑘰𑘨𑘱
U+1160E MODI LETTER KA
U+11630 MODI VOWEL SIGN AA
U+11628 MODI LETTER RA
U+11630 MODI VOWEL SIGN AA
U+1160E MODI LETTER KA
U+11628 MODI LETTER RA
U+11630 MODI VOWEL SIGN AA
U+1160E MODI LETTER KA
U+11630 MODI VOWEL SIGN AA
U+11628 MODI LETTER RA
U+11631 MODI VOWEL SIGN I

Screenshot

First of all, I want to say thank you to all you guys, for doing such excellent work of developing high quality fonts with larger Unicode coverage....!!

Noto fonts are helping us to revive rare and less explored scripts and their characteristics by giving them a digital identity. One such script is Modi. We have Noto Sans Modi for it, which is very fine, but has a 'sans approach'.

But, traditionally, Modi is written with a serif approach. It is written using 'Boru', giving it a varying width outline style. Therefore, it will be appropriate to implement it in Noto fonts.

Thanking you...
Abhishek