gsoc2018-cantarell
Adding Greek language support to the open source fonts of Cantarell
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Synopsis
Cantarell is a humanist sans serif typeface optimized for on-screen reading. It was originally developed by Dave Crossland in the MA Typeface Design class of 2009 at the University of Reading using free software. Subsequently, it was licensed under an SIL Open Font License and has been the standard UI typeface for the open-source desktop environment GNOME since version 3.0 in 2010.
The fonts have been redesigned for the release of GNOME 3.28 in March 2018. Post-script outline quality improved significantly, spacing has been reworked and new weights have been added.
The family is currently growing to support additional writing systems. After initially applying with extending another typeface I was invited to change my project and add Monotonic and Polytonic Greek to the three Roman masters of Cantarell during Google Summer of Code 2018.
Process
There is a detailed résumé of this project in a gist. 00_Process in this repository was the work in progress folder during Google Summer of Code. 01_GSoC FINAL comprises the status on the day of the final evaluation in mid August 2018, including the GLYPHS-file, exported UFOs and installable fonts.
Timeline
Summary of the detailed timeline
14.05. – 14.06.2018
Design lowercase and uppercase: Regular
15.06.
Phase 1 evaluation deadline
16.06. – 12.07.
Design lowercase and uppercase: Extra Bold, Thin; Interpolation test
13.07.
Phase 2 evaluation deadline
14.07. – 13.08.
Add Polytonic diacritics: Thin, Regular, Extra Bold; Kerning of the masters; Interpolation of intermediate weights
14.08.2018
Final evaluation deadline
GSoC
Mentors
Student
Florian Fecher | EsadType, Amiens | GitHub | Twitter
Organization
Open Technologies Alliance – GFOSS | GitHub | Twitter
License
The Cantarell fonts and related code are licensed under an SIL Open Font License.