/opensansfpbc

This is an Open Sans variant to add coverage for all the orthographies of the languages of the First Peoples of British Columbia.

Apache License 2.0Apache-2.0

IMPORTANT NOTICE

2022-12-10

Go to this repo to get files with complete IPA coverage

https://github.com/jonwhipple/opensansipa

DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION

Please contact me via email if you have questions about this work. jon@jonwhipple.com

Open Sans – First Peoples of British Columbia

This is an Open Sans variant to add coverage for all the orthographies of the languages of the First Peoples of British Columbia. British Columbia is unique within Canada when it comes to Indigenous language diversity. In the context of Canada, B.C.’s languages make up more than 50% of the approximately 61 languages indigenous to this country. • There are 34 First Nations languages within 7 distinct unrelated language families. • There are 3 languages once spoken that are now sleeping. • Languages Indigenous to other parts of Canada are now spoken in B.C. because of migration. ( (Report on the Status of B.C. First Nations Languages 2018, Third Edition, Fact Sheet) [https://fpcc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/FPCC-Fact-Sheet-Language-Report-2018.pdf] – PDF ).

Goals

The primary goal of this project is to expand the language coverage of Open Sans to support the orthographies of all the languages of all the First Peoples of British Columbia.

The secondary, but no less important goal, is to complete and test the expanded fonts and submit to Google Fonts for reintegration into Open Sans.

Language Coverage

At time of this writing (2022-11-26), the fonts provide qualified coverage for Hul’q’umi’num’ / Halq'eméylem / hən̓q̓əmin̓əm, as well as International Phonetic Alphabet, in addition to the coverage of normally provided by Open Sans.

Qualified coverage means that some weights are complete and others are not yet, but have sufficient coverage for use in https://www.vpl.ca

The following weights provide coverage for Hul’q’umi’num’ / Halq'eméylem / hən̓q̓əmin̓əm:

  • Light
  • LightItalic
  • Bold
  • BoldItalic

The following weights provide only partial coverage for Hul’q’umi’num’ / Halq'eméylem / hən̓q̓əmin̓əm:

  • Regular
  • Italic
  • Semibold
  • Semibold-Italic
  • ExtraBold
  • ExtraBold-Italic

Directory Structure

dist contains compressed (.zip) archives of compiled binaries in 4 flavours:

  • OpenType Font (.otf)
  • TrueType Font (.ttf)
  • Web Open Font Format File (.woff)
  • Web Open Font Format 2.0 File (.woff2)

documentation contains the design brief as well as other notes and files.

fonts contains compiled binary font files as a reference (see Google Fonts Quick Start ).

sources contains source .glyphs files.