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GNU FreeFont Credits
====================
This file lists contributors and contributions to the GNU FreeFont project.
* URW++ Design & Development GmbH and John
Plaice
Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega typesetting
system,
* Valek Filippov
Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to
the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core fonts,
Hiragana (U+3040-U+309F)
Katakana (U+30A0-U+30FF)
* Young U. Ryu
Young Ryu is the author of Txfonts, a set of mathematical symbols
designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the
documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The
Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts
for Times based on the rule thickness of Times = , , + , / , < ,
etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX
fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times
fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of
that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts."
TX fonts are are distributed under the GNU public license (GPL).
Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, once available as
as a tarball named greekXfonts-Type1-1.1.tgz.
The glyphs from this source have been used to compose Greek glyphs in
FreeSans and FreeMono.
Angelo's licence says: "You can enjoy free use of these fonts for
educational or commercial purposes. All derived works should include
this paragraph. If you want to change something please let me have
your changes (via email) so that they can go into the next
version. You can also send comments etc to the above address."
Greek (U+0370-U+03FF)
* Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich
In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of
glyphs covering the Thai national standard Nf3, in both upright and
slanted shape. The collection of glyphs have been made part of GNU
intlfonts 1.2 package and is available under the GPL at
Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs
(without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available under
the XFree86 license at . All Rights Reserved.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL S.R.HAQUE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Except as contained in this notice, the name of S.R.Haque shall not be
used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from
S.R.Haque.
Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
* Sam Stepanyan
Sam Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually
compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on
. On
2002-01-24, Sam writes: "Arial Armenian font is free for
non-commercial use, so it is OK to use under GPL license."
Armenian (U+0530-U+058F)
* Mohamed Ishan <>
Mohamed Ishan started the Thaana Unicode Project and among other things
created a couple of Thaana fonts, available under FDL or BDF license.
Thaana (U+0780-U+07BF)
* Sushant Kumar Dash (*)
Sushant Dash has created a font in his mother tongue, Oriya. As he
states on his web page
Harsh Kumar has started BharatBhasha
Prasad A. Chodavarapu created Tikkana, a Telugu font available in Type
1 and TrueType format on and Anshuman Pandey
In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The Netherlands,
released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available under the terms of
GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the Washington University, Seattle, USA,
took over the maintenance of font. Zdeněk Wagner has provided a huge amount
of expert advice regarding the implementation of the font in FreeSerif.
Fonts can be found on CTAN,
In 1991, Hardip Singh Pannu has created a free Gurmukhi TrueType font,
available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Its license
says "Please remember that these fonts are copyrighted (by me) and are
for non-profit use only."
Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
* Jeroen Hellingman
Jeroen Hellingman created a set of Malayalam metafonts in 1994, and a
set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as
uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and
modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to
release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this
notice on them." Metafonts can be found on CTAN,
, Olaf
Kummer , and Jochen Metzinger
Beyene, Kudlek, Kummer and Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations
of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic
metafonts, found on
,
and can be reached at . The current
version of fonts is 0.7 (1998), and they are released under GNU GPL. I
converted the fonts to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace-A
program
In 2002, Maxim Iorsh started the Culmus project, aiming at providing
Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of
Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with
URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono
L families, respectively, and are released under GNU GPL license. See
also
Panayotis Katsaloulis helped fixing Greek accents in the Greek
Extended area.
Greek Extended (U+1F00-U+1FFF)
* Vyacheslav Dikonov
Vyacheslav Dikonov made a Braille unicode font that could be merged
with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely. (uniform
scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also contributed
a free syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are borrowed
from the "Carlo Ator" font by Tim Erickson.
Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing
spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g. the box drawing section, sets of
subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers.
Syriac (U+0700-U+074A)
Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F)
Braille (U+2800-U+28FF)
* Tim Erickson
Is the author of several Eurasian fonts, including "Carlo Ator".
He has given his written permission for glyphs from this font to be
included in FreeFont.
Syriac (U+0700-U+074A)
* M.S. Sridhar
M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited, Mumbai, developers of Akruti
Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released
a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati,
Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi)
under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the fonts
from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site
(http://www.gnu.org.in/akruti-fonts/) or from the Akruti website.
For any further information or assistance regarding these fonts,
please contact mssridhar AT vsnl.com.
Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F)
Kannada (U+0C80-U+0CFF)
Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
* DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt
Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site
Finally the range was completely replaced by glyphs from the sinh TeX
font, with much help and advice from Harshula Jayasuriya.
Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
* Daniel Shurovich Chirkov
Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic
glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of
the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X,
.
Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF)
* Denis Jacquerye
Denis Jacquerye added new glyphs and corrected existing ones in the
Latin Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges.
Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
* K.H. Hussain and R. Chitrajan
`Rachana' in Malayalam means `to write', `to create'. Rachana Akshara Vedi,
a team of socially committed information technology professionals and
philologists, has applied developments in computer technology and desktop
publishing to resurrect the Malayalam language from the disorder,
fragmentation and degeneration it had suffered since the attempt to adapt
the Malayalam script for using with a regular mechanical typewriter, which
took place in 1967-69. K.H. Hussein at the Kerala Forest Research Institute
has released "Rachana Normal" fonts with approximately 900 glyphs required
to typeset traditional Malayalam. R. Chitrajan apparently encoded the
glyphs in the OpenType table.
In 2008, the Malayalam ranges in FreeSerif were updated under the advise
and supervision of Hiran Venugopalan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing,
to reflect the revised edition Rachana_04.
Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
* Solaiman Karim
Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF)
Solaiman Karim has developed several OpenType Bangla fonts and
released them under GNU GPL on .
* Sonali Sonania and Monika Shah
Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
Glyphs were drawn by Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd., #101,Mahalakshmi
Mansion 21st Main 22nd "A" Cross Banashankari 2nd stage Banglore
560070, India. Converted to OTF by IndicTrans Team, Powai, Mumbai,
lead by Prof. Jitendra Shah. Maintained by Monika Shah and Sonali
Sonania of janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumbai. This font is released
under GPL by Dr. Alka Irani and Prof Jitendra Shah, janabhaaratii
Team, C-DAC, Mumabi. janabhaaratii is localisation project at C-DAC
Mumbai (formerly National Centre for Software Technology); funded by
TDIL, Govt. of India. Contact:monika_shah AT lycos.com,
sonalisonania AT yahoo.com, jitendras AT vsnl.com, alka AT ncst.ernet.in.
website: www.janabhaaratii.org.in.
* Pravin Satpute , Bageshri Salvi
, Rahul Bhalerao and Sandeep Shedmake
Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F)
Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF)
Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F)
Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F)
Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF)
In December 2005 the team at www.gnowledge.org released a set of two
Unicode pan-Indic fonts: "Samyak" and "Samyak Sans". "Samyak" font
belongs to serif style and is an original work of the team; "Samyak
Sans" font belongs to sans serif style and is actually a compilation
of already released Indic fonts (Gargi, Padma, Mukti, Utkal, Akruti
and ThendralUni). Both fonts are based on Unicode standard.
The fonts are now hosted at Sarovar.org:
http://sarovar.org/projects/samyak/
* Kulbir Singh Thind
Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F)
Dr. Kulbir Singh Thind designed a set of Gurmukhi Unicode fonts,
AnmolUni and AnmolUni-Bold, which are available under the terms of GNU
Generel Public License from the Punjabu Computing Resource Center,
http://guca.sourceforge.net/typography/fonts/anmoluni/.
* Gia Shervashidze
Georgian (U+10A0-U+10FF)
Starting in mid-1990s, Gia Shervashidze designed many
Unicode-compliant Georgian fonts: Times New Roman Georgian, Arial
Georgian, Courier New Georgian. His work on Georgian localization can
be reached at http://www.gia.ge/.
* Primož Peterlin
Primož Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g. Latin
Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono familiy), and
created the following UCS blocks:
Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF)
Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF)
Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F)
Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F)
Geometrical Shapes (U+25A0-U+25FF)
* Mark Williamson
Made the MPH 2 Damase font, from which
Hanunóo (U+1720-U+173F)
Buginese (U+1A00-U+1A1F)
Tai Le (U+1950-U+197F)
Ugaritic (U+10380-U+1039F)
Old Persian (U+103A0-U+103DF)
* Jacob Poon
Submitted a very thorough survey of glyph problems and other suggestions.
* Alexey Kryukov
Made the TemporaLCGUni fonts, based on the URW++ fonts, from which at one
point FreeSerif Cyrillic, and some of the Greek, was drawn. He also provided
valuable direction about Cyrillic and Greek typesetting.
Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF)
* George Douros
The creator of several fonts focusing on ancient scripts and symbols.
Many of the glyphs are created by making outlines from scanned images
of ancient sources.
Aegean: Phoenecian
Analecta: Gothic (U+10330-U+1034F)
Musical: Byzantine & Western
Unicode: many Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Technical, OCR,
supplemental Symbols, and Mathematical Alphanumeric symbols,
Mah Jong, and the outline of the Domino.
* Daniel Johnson
Created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with
the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to
fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont. Then he made Unified Canadian
Syllabics in Sans, and a Cherokee and Kayah Li in Mono! And never to be
outdone by himself, then did UCAS Extended and Osmanya.... What next?
Armenian (serif) (U+0530-U+058F)
Cherokee (U+13A0-U+13FF)
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (U+1400-U+167F)
UCAS Extended (U+18B0-U+18F5)
Kayah Li (U+A900-U+A92F)
Tifinagh (U+2D30-U+2D7F)
Vai (U+A500-U+A62B)
Latin Extended-D (Mayanist letters) (U+A720-U+A7FF)
Osmanya (U+10480-U+104a7)
* Yannis Haralambous and Wellcome Institute
In 1994, The Wellcome Library
The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England.
commissioned Mr. Haralambous to produce a Sinhalese font for them.
We have received 03/09 official notice from Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy
for the Wellcome Library, that Yannis' font could be included in GNU
FreeFont under its GNU license.
Thanks to Dominik Wujastyk, for providing us with feedback and contacts
to repsonsible people at the Trust.
Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
* The Sinhala font project http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/
The Sinhala font project has taken the glyphs from Yannis Haralambous'
Sinhala font, to produce a Unicode TrueType font, LKLUG. These glyphs
were for a while included in FreeFont.
Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF)
* Steve White
Filled in a lot of missing characters, got some font features working,
left fingerprints almost everywhere, and is responsible for these blocks:
Runic (U+16A0-U+16F0)
Glagolitic (U+2C00-U+2C5F)
Coptic (U+2C80-U+2CFF)
Old Italic (U+10300-U+1032F)
(The design of Runic is based roughly on one originally submitted by
Vyacheslav Dikonov)
* Pavel Skrylev is responsible for
Cyrillic Extended-A (U+2DEO-U+2DFF)
as well as many of the additions to
Cyrillic Extended-B (U+A640-U+A65F)
* Masoud Pourmoosa corrected several letters in Arabic for Persian:
Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF)
Notes:
*: The glyph collection looks license-compatible, but its author has
not yet replied and agreed on their work being used in part of
this glyph collection.
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