View the project on Google Summer of Code website.
This project aims to bring full support for the Greek script, including polytonic for the typeface Eczar.
Eczar is an open-source type family designed by Vaibhav Singh, produced by David Březina, and published by Rosetta Type Foundry. You can view the original Github repository of the project here and the fonts on Google Fonts.
As a typeface, Eczar has a strong personality, with five weights from Regular to Extra-Bold and can be used to set text from body copy to display. At the moment, not many Serif fonts that support Greek are available from Google Fonts; the goal of this project is to expand this collection.
Eczar already supports Latin and Devanagari. Devanagari are designed with an axis mirrored in relation to the Latin; this provides a good basis for certain letterforms that could be transferred into the Greek design, rendering a balanced outcome for all the supported scripts.
May 30 – June 29
Uppercase, lowercase and polytonic for Regular Weight
June 30
Phase 1 Evaluation
July 3 – July 27
Uppercase, lowercase and polytonic for Extra-Bold Weight, kerning and initial interpolation tests.
July 28
Phase 2 Evaluation
July 31 – August 28
Fix interpolation compatibility issues, completion of the 5 weights, documentation.
August 29
Finish
You can find the detailed, week by week, timeline for the project here.
Also, a daily diary is kept with process updates here
- Alexios Zavras
- Diomidis Spinellis
- Irene Vlachou
- Emilios Theofanous
Open Technologies Alliance - GFOSS
The fonts and related code are licensed under Open Font License. See LICENSE.txt for licensing information.