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FONTLOG
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Andika v1.000
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This file provides detailed information on the Andika family of fonts.
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This information should be distributed along with the Andika fonts and
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any derivative works.
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Basic Font Information
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Andika ("Write!" in Swahili) is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font
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designed especially for literacy use, taking into account the needs of
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beginning readers. The focus is on clear, easy-to-perceive letterforms
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that will not be easily confused with one another.
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A sans serif font is preferred by some literacy personnel for teaching
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people to read. Its forms are simpler and less cluttered than some
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serif fonts can be. For years, literacy workers have had to make do
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with fonts that were available but not really suitable for beginning
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readers and writers. In some cases, literacy specialists have had to
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tediously cobble together letters from a variety of fonts in order to
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get the all of characters they need for their particular language
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project, resulting in confusing and unattractive publications. Andika
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addresses those issues.
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After receiving many insightful comments on the Design Review and Basic
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fonts, we have refined Andika's final letterforms, with alternate shapes
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still available for some characters.
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With the SIL TypeTuner utility (see http://scripts.sil.org/TypeTuner),
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you can select which alternates to use as Andika's default letterforms.
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This font now contains the same character set as Charis SIL and
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Doulos SIL.
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One font from this typeface family is included in this release:
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* Andika Regular
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Work is ongoing to provide italic, bold and bold-italic weights.
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Features
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Andika supports all of the smart font features that the Doulos SIL
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font supports. It also contains features specific to Andika.
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These are:
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Capital Q alternate
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Lower case j serif alternate
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Lower case q alternate
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No-tail t and y alternates
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Numeral 0 1 4 6 7 9 alternates
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Tail i and l alternates
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More detail on features can be seen at
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http://scripts.sil.org/SILUnicodeRF_Features.
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A Note Regarding the Open Font License and TypeTuner
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The OFL prohibits the use of Reserved Font Names "Andika" and "SIL" in
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the name of any font that is derived from the Original Version of Andika.
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However, SIL International (the Copyright Holder) grants through
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this separate written agreement the right to use the Reserved Font Names
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in any Modified Version of this font created by using TypeTuner as long
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as the feature information contained in the Original Version is used,
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unmodified, as the source for TypeTuner feature information, and
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"Andika" is not the resulting font family name.
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TypeTuner-produced fonts created in this manner are still bound by the
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terms of the OFL. Specifically, the use of Reserved Font Names is
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prohibited when making derivatives of a TypeTuner-produced font. Anyone
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making a derivative of a TypeTuner font will need to find a different
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name. For example a TypeTuner-produced font may be named
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"Andika Non-Literacy SomeFarAwayPlace" but a derivative of that font made
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with other tools would not be allowed to use the "Andika" or "SIL"
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Reserved Font Names and would have to be named something like
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"Write Sans".
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ChangeLog
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(This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.)
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8 July 2011 (SIL NRSI team) Andika Regular version 1.000
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- Released under SIL Open Font License.
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2 May 2008 (SIL NRSI team) Andika Basic Regular version 1.0
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- Released under SIL Open Font License.
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19 January 2007 (SIL NRSI team) Andika Design Review version 0.001
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- Released under Open Font License. Five new fonts containing
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revisions of some glyphs and different combinations of others.
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7 Aug 2006 (SIL NRSI team) Andika Design Review version 0.001
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- Released under Open Font License.
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Acknowledgements
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(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications
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be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description (D).
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This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.)
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N: Don Collingsworth
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E: nrsi@sil.org
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W: http://scripts.sil.org/
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D: Contributed some extended Latin glyphs
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N: Victor Gaultney
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E: victor_gaultney@sil.org
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W: http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/
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D: Original Designer
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N: Eric Hays
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E: nrsi@sil.org
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W: http://scripts.sil.org/
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D: Contributed some extended Latin glyphs
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N: Annie Olsen
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E: andika@sil.org
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W: http://scripts.sil.org/
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D: Lead Designer
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N: Julie Remington
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E: nrsi@sil.org
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W: http://scripts.sil.org/
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D: Contributed some extended Latin glyphs
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N: SIL font engineers
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E: nrsi@sil.org
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W: http://scripts.sil.org/
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D: Graphite, OpenType, and TypeTuner code, and build support
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The Andika and Andika Basic fonts are maintained by SIL International.
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For more information please visit the Andika page on SIL
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International's Computers and Writing Systems website:
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http://scripts.sil.org/andika
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Or send an e-mail to <andika AT sil DOT org>
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