sorkintype / fjallaone

FjallaOne

Fjalla is a medium contrast display sans serif. Fjalla has been carefully adjusted to the restrictions of the screen. Despite having display characteristics Fjalla can be used in a wide range of sizes.

About

Sorkin Type makes retail and Libre fonts.

Building

Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.

If you want to build fonts manually on your own computer:

• make build will produce font files.
• make test will run FontBakery's quality assurance tests.
• make proof will generate HTML proof files.

The proof files and QA tests are also available automatically via GitHub Actions - look at https://EbenSorkin.github.io/FjallaOne.

ChangeLog

27 Oct 2012 (Eben Sorkin) Fjalla v1.000

• Mastered VBF to TTF and other formats.
• hinted font Using TTFAutohint version 0.92

25 Oct 2012 (Irina Smirnova) Fjalla v1.000

• Completed first complete version of Fjalla in Fontlab ( VBF format )

28 July 2017 (eben Sorkin) v 1.001

• increased the glyphs to support addiional languages
• The diacritics are now sourced from unicode 0300 series codepoints with zero width instead of the previous default 0200 codepoints.
• Legacy diacritics (0200 codepoints) remain with some left and right spacing in case they need to be referenced in text.
• Vertical metrics have ben made consistent with current Google practice to avoid clipping.
• OpenType naming tables are added and have NID 16 & 17 entries so that Font Menus in Adobe apps say Fjalla with a style of "One"

2 March 2023 (Eben Sorkin and Emma Marichal) V1.002

• kerning added and completed
• language supported improved

Acknowledgements

If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and description (D). This list is in alphabetical order.

N: Emma Marichal E: [email protected] W: emmamarichal.fr D: Mastering

N: Irina Smirnova E: [email protected] D: Designer

N: Eben Sorkin E: [email protected] W: www.sorkintype.com D: Mastering & Design

License

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Repository Layout

This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3, modified for the Google Fonts workflow.

fjallaone's Issues

The lowercase character "ț" is identical to the uppercase variant "Ț".

The lowercase character "ț" (Unicode 021B: LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW) is identical to the uppercase variant "Ț" (Unicode 021A: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW).

This character is commonly used in Romanian texts, and such any Romanian text displayed with this font looks wrong.

Current state:

What it should look like:

Here I replaced the "ț" character with the "ţ" character (Unicode 0163: LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA). Notice that the cedilla is connected to the letter body, while the correct character has a comma separated from the letter body.

Issue can also be seen on the Google Fonts page: