fonts/tools/encodings/GF Glyph Sets

Google Fonts 2016 Glyph Sets

Three levels of glyph sets were developed in June 2016 as a new baseline standard for fonts in the Google Fonts library. Exising fonts in the library can be upgraded to these as part of a drive towards new quality standards. All new fonts submitted to the library must now support the Plus level as a minumum requirement.

Three sets are available in this directory: Plus, Pro and Expert.

Glyphs App Tip

Inside [filter lists](./filter\ lists) are text files with a list of glyphs for each set. Open Glyphs and in the left bottom sidebar, create a new list filter, and paste the contents of these TXT files to check if your fonts supports these characters. A ✓ will indicate you are all set. Otherwise ctrl + click on the numbers to generate missing glyphs.

N.B. If you get an error while creating new glyphs, select all glyphs in your font, from the top menu choose Glyph -> Update Glyph Info. Try again. If updating Glyph Info didn't work make sure [ ] Use custom naming is unckecked in Font Info > Other Settings.

See TROUBLESHOOTING.md for more details.

Latin

Structure and Hierarchy of Glyph Sets for Latin:

1. Core A Basic Latin set for Western Europe
2. Plus For all fonts in the library, an Extended Latin with wide language support (Central and Eastern European languages and Vietnamese)
3. Pro For casual and headline fonts that need a little more typographic sophistication, an extra 171 glyphs
4. Expert For text and workhorse typefaces that must supply everything typographers need, such as small caps, an additional 300 glyphs

Glyph Set	Drawn	Composite	Either/Or	From Core	From Core contingency
Core	150	70
Plus	215	360	19	65	19
Pro	26	116	4	23	23
Expert	62	207	4	153	27
Total	303	683	27

GF Latin Plus (568 glyphs total + 25 optional)

• Western & Central European
• Vietnamese
• Currencies (₡ ₣ ₤ ₦ ₧ ₩ ₫ ₭ ₱ ₲ ₵ ₹ ₺ ₼ ₽)
• Alternate Numerals: Proportonal Lining

Includes characters from the following unicode ranges:

• Latin-1
• Latin Extended A
• Latin Extended B
• Latin Extended Additional
• Latin-1 Supplement

Optional additions:

• Uppercase Accents, 25
• Slashed zero (zero.zero)

Glyphs App Tip

To quickly create base glyphs for lining figures, press Cmd + G, and paste in this code:

Type	Paste this code
Lining Figures	zero=zero.lf one=one.lf two=two.lf three=three.lf four=four.lf five=five.lf six=six.lf seven=seven.lf eight=eight.lf nine=nine.lf

See tutorials/README.md for more details

Ligated Dutch IJ

In case your IJ diagraph is really ligated, or has a special form (like shortened I) you will need to add these glyphs: I_J.loclNLD i_j.loclNLD Iacute_J.loclNLD iacute_j.loclNLD. Glyphs (versions 2.3.1 or later) will automate the OT code. If your font includes small caps, make sure to add .sc glyphs too.

Read more about this in the GlyphsApp Ligated Dutch IJ Tutorial

Language support for the following Latin-based languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Onĕipŏt, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami (Inari Sami), Sami (Lule Sami), Sami (Northern Sami), Sami (Southern Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni

GF Latin Pro (+145 for 713 glyphs total + 17 optional .case)

• Math symbols and Units of Measure (∆ Ω π ℓ ℮ ∞ ∂ ∫ √ ∑ ∏ ◊ ∅)
• Latin General Use Extensions (U+1E08 to U+1EC9)
• Superiors and Inferiors (⁰ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ₀ ₁ ₂ ₃ ₄ ₅ ₆ ₇ ₈ ₉)
• Scientific Inferiors as ".subs" (₀ ₁ ₂ ₃ ₄ ₅ ₆ ₇ ₈ ₉)
• Spacing Modifier Letters (ʻ ʼ ʾ ʿ ˈ ˊ ˋ ˌ)
• Typographic Spaces (figure, punctuation, thin, hair, zero-width)
• Additional General Punctuation (‐ ‒ ― ′ ″)
• Alternate Punctuation Glyphs for Capitals
• Numerators and Denominators

Instructions for OT code in the GF Latin Pro set using unencoded glyphs:

feature name	created	sub one by ...
.sups	auto	one.sups
.subs	auto	one.subs
.sinf	manually	one.subs

Optional glyphs in the GF Latin Pro set include:

• Case Punctuation .case

GF Latin Expert (+271 for 984 total)

• Additional Unicode Fractions (⅓ ⅔ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞)
• Arrows (← ↑ → ↓)
• Geometric Shapes (■ □ ▲ △ ▶ ▷ ▼ ▽ ◀ ◁ ◆ ◇)
• Small Capitals
• Discretionary Ligatures (T_h c_t c_h s_t)

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Cyrillic

Structure and Hierarchy of Glyph Sets for Cyrillic:

1. Core is the existing default set, a Basic Cyrillic
2. Plus includes added language coverage for Slavic, Non-Slavic, and Uralic languages
3. Pro for Headline typefaces, with language support more Non-Slavic languages
4. Historic provides support for historic Cyrillic, Old Church Slavonic Texts

GF Cyrillic Core (not used)

Supports the following Cyrillic languages: Balkar, Belarusian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Cyrillic), Bulgarian, Croatian (Cyrillic), Erzya, Karachay, Kumyk, Macedonian, Moksha, Montenigrin, Nanai, Nogai, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian (Cyrillic), Ukrainian, West Polesian

GF Cyrillic Plus (184 Unicode characters in 277 glyphs including Small Caps + 40 localized variants: 317 total)

Supports the following 90 Cyrillic languages: Abaza, Adyghe, Agul, Akhvakh, Altay, Andi, Archi, Avar, Azerbaijani (Cyrillic), Bagvalal Balkar, Bashkir, Belarusian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Cyrillic), Botlikh, Budukh, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chamalal, Chechen, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic), Croatian (Cyrillic), Dargwa/Dargin, Dungan, Erzya, Gagauz (Cyrillic), Godoberi, Hinukh, Hunzib, Ingush, Juhuri/çuhuri (Cyrillic), Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Karaim (Cyrillic), Karakalpak (Cyrillic), Karata, Kazakh, Ket (Cyrillic), Khakas (Cyrillic), Khinalugh, Komi, Krymchak, Kryts, Kubachi, Kumyk, Kurdish (Cyrillic), Kurdish (Cyrillic), Kyrgyz (Cyrillic), Lak, Lezgian, Lingua Franca Nova (Cyrillic), Macedonian, Mari (Hill and Meadow), Moksha, Moldovan (Cyrillic), Mongolian (Cyrillic), Montenigrin (Cyrillic), Nanai, Nogai, Ossetian, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Serbian (Cyrillic), Shor, Slovio, Tabassaran, Tajik, Talysh (Cyrillic), Tat, Tatar, Tindi, Tofa, Tsakhur (Cyrillic), Tsez, Turkmen, Tuvan/Tuvinian, Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urum, Uyghur (Cyrillic), Uzbek (Cyrillic), Votik (Cyrillic), Wakhi (Cyrillic), West Polesian, Yaghnobi (Cyrillic), Yukaghir (Northern and Southern).

Includes currencies: ₮, ₴, ₸.

The ruble sign (₽ U+20BD) is not included, since it is already present in the Latin Plus set.

GF Cyrillic Pro (+82 glyphs for 399 glyphs total)

Additional characters in this set provide support for the following 18 languages: Abkhaz, Chukchi, Enets, Eskimo, Even, Evenki, Itelmen, Khanty, Kildin Sami, Koryak, Mansi, Nganasan, Nenets, Oroch, Orok, Sakha/Yakut, Tati, Yukaghir, Yupik Ulch,

Full list of supported 110 Cyrillic languages: Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Agul, Akhvakh, Altay, Andi, Archi, Avar, Azerbaijani (Cyrillic), Bagvalal Balkar, Bashkir, Belarusian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Cyrillic), Botlikh, Budukh, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chamalal, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic), Croatian (Cyrillic), Dargwa/Dargin, Dungan, Enets, Erzya, Eskimo, Even, Evenki, Gagauz (Cyrillic), Godoberi, Hinukh, Hunzib, Ingush, Itelmen, Juhuri/çuhuri (Cyrillic), Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Karaim (Cyrillic), Karakalpak (Cyrillic), Karata, Kazakh, Ket (Cyrillic), Khakas (Cyrillic), Khanty, Khinalugh, Kildin Sami, Komi, Koryak, Krymchak, Kryts, Kubachi, Kumyk, Kurdish (Cyrillic), Kurdish (Cyrillic), Kyrgyz (Cyrillic), Lak, Lezgian, Lingua Franca Nova (Cyrillic), Macedonian, Mansi, Mari (Hill and Meadow), Moksha, Moldovan (Cyrillic), Mongolian (Cyrillic), Montenigrin (Cyrillic), Nanai, Nenets, Nganasan, Nogai, Oroch, Orok, Ossetian, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Sakha/Yakut, Serbian (Cyrillic), Shor, Slovio, Tabassaran, Tajik, Talysh (Cyrillic), Tat, Tatar, Tati, Tindi, Tofa, Tsakhur (Cyrillic), Tsez, Turkmen, Tuvan/Tuvinian, Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Ulch, Urum, Uyghur (Cyrillic), Uzbek (Cyrillic), Votik (Cyrillic), Wakhi (Cyrillic), West Polesian, Yaghnobi (Cyrillic), Yukaghir (Northern and Southern), Yukaghir, Yupik.

GF Cyrillic Historic ( 37 glyphs )

Provides support for Pre-Petrine Old Church Slavonic Texts.

Recommended Additions

See RECOMMENDED.md

Acknowledgements:

GF Glyph Sets defined by Alexei Vanyashin (@alexeiva) and Kalapi Gajjar (@kalapi) from 2016-06-27 to 2016-10-11, with input from Dave Crossland, Denis Jacquerye, Frank Grießhammer, Georg Seifert, Gunnar Vilhjálmsson, Jacques Le Bailly, Michael Everson, Nhung Nguyen (Vietnamese lists), Pablo Impallari (Impallari Encoding), Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (@mekkablue), Thomas Jockin, Thomas Phinney (Adobe Cyrillic lists), and Underware (Latin Plus Encoding)