FONTLOG for Vollkorn
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This file provides detailed information on the Vollkorn Font Software.
This information should be distributed along with the Vollkorn fonts and any derivative works.
Basic Font Information
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Vollkorn is a quiet, modest and well working body copy typeface for bread and butter use. It has dark and meaty serifs and a bouncing and healthy look and might be used as body type as well as for headlines or titles. More than 2000 glyphs per font support a wide range of languages in Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts.
»Vollkorn« [pronounce ‘follkorn’] is German for “wholemeal”. It refers to the old term “Brotschrift” [literally ‘bread type’] which described the small fonts for every day use in the days of hand-compositing.
Vollkorn came into being as Friedrich Althausen’s first type designing attempt while his studies at Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany. The Regular style was initially published in 2005 under a Creative-Commons-License. When GoogleFonts launched in 2010 Vollkorn was one the first twenty featured fonts.
Since 19 May 2010 Vollkorn is published under the OFL.
Original Designers address: Friedrich Althausen, friedrichalthausen.de, Germany
vollkorn-typeface.com
ChangeLog
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(This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.)
22nd March 2017 (Friedrich Althausen) Vollkorn Version 4.014
- Fixed vert Metrics
- Fixed Semibold Italic’s usWeightClass
- Added SC Instances
1st March 2017 (Friedrich Althausen) Vollkorn Version 4.012
- Support of »GoogleFonts Latin Pro«, »GoogleFonts Latin Plus«, »GoogleFonts Latin Expert«, »GoogleFonts Cyrillic Pro«, »GoogleFonts Cyrillic Plus«, »GoogleFonts Greek Core«, »GoogleFonts Vietnamese«, »Adobe Latin 3«, »Adobe Cyrillic 3« and more
- Smallcaps
- character count increase from 535 up to over 2000
- etc.
18 March 2014 (Friedrich Althausen) Vollkorn Version 3.005
- fixing of catalan l•l and L•L
- fixing of version counters and style linking
- added underlinePosition and underlineThickness
5 February 2014 (Friedrich Althausen) Vollkorn Version 3.003
- fix dot of j again
31 January 2014 (Friedrich Althausen) Vollkorn Version 3.002
- minor changes: semibold name fix, corrected small g-commaaccent, tidied up automatic metrics
7 January 2014 (Friedrich Althausen) Vollkorn Version 3.001
- minor corrections (added non-breaking space, hinting stuff)
- now on own webpage: vollkorn-typeface.com
29 December 2013 (Friedrich Althausen, Potsdam) Vollkorn Version 3.0
- adding several characters (now 533 in the romans, 456 in the italics)
- full support of “Adobe Latin 3”
- basic cyrillic in the roman styles
- interpolation of 4 new styles: medium, medium italic, semibold, semibold italic
- new tt-hinting with the ttf-autohinter
15 September 2010 (Yanone) Vollkorn Version 2.1
- fixing TT-Hinting: droping-out horizontal strokes at 14 px
07 September 2010 (Friedrich Althausen, supported by Yanone) Vollkorn Version 2.1
- Initial release of the styles Vollkorn Italic and Bold-Italic
- Small improvements in the Regular and Bold styles
19 May 2010 (Friedrich Althausen, supported by Yanone) Vollkorn Version 2.0
- Initial release of the fonts Vollkorn Regular and Bold under the SIL OFL 1.1
late 2005 (Friedrich Althausen) Vollkorn Version 1.0
- First release of Vollkorn under the Creative Commons License “Attribution 2.0 Germany”
Acknowledgements
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(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description (D). This list is sorted by las
