Libertine Open Fonts Project --
http://www.linuxlibertine.org
Changes to create libertine-legacy distribution of 5.1.2 by Bob Tennent
(
[email protected]) (2011-12-19)
- directories "libertine" re-named to "libertine-legacy"
- filenames {fxbuni, fxiuni, fxkuni, fxluni}.inc changed to
{fxbuni_legacy, fxiuni_legacy, fxkuni_legacy, fxluni_legacy}.inc to avoid
conflicting with more recent versions.
Changes to version 5.1.2 (2011-06-06)
- fixing probelm with OS2 table.
Changes to version 5.0.0 (2011-05-20)
Again a lot of improvements, just mentioning the most obvious:
- Improved Libertine Italic
- New Libertine Bold Italic. Former style => Semibold Italic
- m, n, p, r => improvements in upper left serif. It is now more dynamically moving in the vertical stem.
- New style of the Libertine Regular for high grades (16pt upwards): Libertine Regular Display
- Additional output formats:
- WOFF (Web Open Font Format) => you will always find a recent copy to link with your websites at:
http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/fonts/
Thanks to Zoltan you may eventually find them on www.google.com/webfonts, too.
- SVG Fonts
- Libertine I and BI: fractions improved
- Additions to the Biolinum Keyboard: Mouse-Symbols (two and three button mice with emphasized one and two finger-click)
- Initials created (Display Glyphs with fine external contour) in range A-Z + some accented glyphs from latin1 encoding
Changes to (unpublished) version 4.8.0 (2010-04-30)
201009 complete redesign of Libertine Bold
all common letters are now further embolded. The former Bold style is now
regarded as Semi-Bold.
- Libertine Bold -> Libertine Semibold
- new Libertine Bold
- A-Z and accented gylphs
- a-z and accented glyphs
- 0-9 and derivates
Libertine stemwidth put into perspective: Regular (80) - Semibold (110) - Bold
(130)
- public domain and creative commons sign added
20100630 Libertine regular:
- k is now wider (as wide as the n)
- s right border increased from 32 -> 40
- c right border increased from 25 -> 30
- y left border decreased from 20 -> 16
- z more organic shape an better grey value
- n,m,h,u 6 EM wider
- Bug #3019031: emacron with wrong accent (mark instead of base)
- Bug #3014435: y.alt adapted to new glyph form and added to opentype
substitution tables "salt" and "alt"
- Hebrew letters improved
- Bug #3004241: opentype substitution -> f.short and dotlessi will now be
substituted by the relating small capital forms
- Bug #3012358: Line spacing problem on windows photoshop. Try: Use
Linespacing-field 0-> 180 (at first only in Libertine Regular for testing)
- T, Z changes to the serifs and more organic shape
- Added A.alt as a test of a more organic A
- improved Hebrew glyphs and mark to base positioning
- numbers scaled up by 5% because many complanied they were to small
- new Indian Rupee symbol uni20A8
- improvements in the Biolinum bold
- moved styleset 04 > 06
- new style set 04: versal eszett and small capital eszett is substituted by
double S (SS) resp. double smal caps ss (ss).
-q_u.sc Xavier points out, that a small caps qu-ligature is missing. Added to
codepoint uniE094. Added Qu.sc to Libertine Bold
-uni2124 etc. for bold, bolditalic...
- Xi was slightly unsymmetric: corrected
Changes to version 4.8.0 regular(-) & italic(/) & capitals (C) (20100430)
201009 complete redesign of Libertine Bold
all common letters are now further embolded. The former Bold style is now
regarded as Semi-Bold.
- Libertine Bold -> Libertine Semibold
- new Libertine Bold
- A-Z and accented gylphs
- a-7 and accented glyphs
- 0-9 and derivates
Libertine stemwidth put into perspective: Regular (80) - Semibold (110) - Bold
(130)
- public domain and creative commons sign added
20100630 Libertine regular:
- k is now wider (as wide as the n)
- s right border increased from 32 -> 40
- c right border increased from 25 -> 30
- y left border decreased from 20 -> 16
- z more organic shape an better grey value
- n,m,h,u 6 EM wider
- Bug #3019031: emacron with wrong accent (mark instead of base)
- Bug #3014435: y.alt adapted to new glyph form and added to opentype
substitution tables "salt" and "alt"
- Hebrew letters improved
- Bug #3004241: opentype substitution -> f.short and dotlessi will now be
substituted by the relating small capital forms
- Bug #3012358: Line spacing problem on windows photoshop. Try: Use
Linespacing-field 0-> 180 (at first only in Libertine Regular for testing)
- T, Z changes to the serifs and more organic shape
- Added A.alt as a test of a more organic A
- improved Hebrew glyphs and mark to base positioning
- numbers scaled up by 5% because many complanied they were to small
- new Indian Rupee symbol uni20A8
- improvements in the Biolinum bold
- moved styleset 04 > 06
- new style set 04: versal eszett and small capital eszett is substituted by
double S (SS) resp. double smal caps ss (ss).
-q_u.sc Xavier points out, that a small caps qu-ligature is missing. Added to
codepoint uniE094. Added Qu.sc to Libertine Bold
-uni2124 etc. for bold, bolditalic...
- Xi was slightly unsymmetric: corrected
Changes to version 4.7.0 regular(-) & italic(/) & capitals (C) (20100430)
- All styles: Reported bugs fixed.
- Libertine regular:
- added missing anchors for i, idieresis, ccaron, scaron
- added missing characters accent uni0364 and glyph uni1D15
- completed combining accented chars block 0300-036F
-ij-Ligature more space between the glyphs, dot of j is slightly higher
-i,j,... more distinctive dotaccent and higher position
-r,f,j,y changes in the drop, which became more distinctive
- h slightl wider
- e slightly wider
- moved [a-z].superior from PUA to dedicated Unicode positions
- crossed form of W for new Wikipedia-logo
- new capital Eng
- New extended latin characters
-issue 3025163fixed: placed the anchor now below the g-bowl. Same for q,
p, and j.
-180° degree symmetry for the o and O
- public domain and creative commons sign added
- Biolinum Bold: numerous improvements in following glyphs:
- a
- i, j, ä, ö, ü...
- w, v
- e
- f, Ã
- c
- m, n
- b, d
- s
- kerning faults corrected
- numbers 0 - 9
- komma , hyphen -, numbersign #
- f
- A-Z slightly thinner verticals
- R, P better bows
- added small cyrillic m (uni043C) to Biolinum and some other missing cyrillics
(not yet all done...)
- Inverted Interrobang (uni2E18) added
- Add Substitution/Transposition brackets 2E02-0A
- macroncmb (uni0304) had a wrong positioned mark anchor and was thus flying
much to high
- Problems with Fractions (ID 2665656): without a contextual chaining
substitution fractions like 1/7 or 1/10, that don't have a concrete
Unicode-posistion, were unavailible. Now solved via contextual chaining
substitution.
- bold: ck, ch-ligature's part characters were a bit close. Now some more space
between them
- diacritic U+031A was wrongly placed. Is now being positioned above-right. New
anchor is called top_rechts
- corrected s_t-ligature in biolinum bold
Ingo Preuss points out thatsome glyphs were wrongly named:
- uni0237 is now called dotlessj (instead of uniF6BE, which was wrongly named
this way)
- all references to dotlessj now point to uni0237
In the following cases names were corrected, unicode points stayed unchanged
- tcommaaccent (uni0163) is now called tcedilla
- Tcommaaccent (uni0162) is now called Tcedilla
- uni021B is now called tcommaaccent
- uni021A is now called Tcommaaccent
- the locl-OpenType-substitution for Romanian wasn't changed, because it already
worked correctly
- orthogonal is now called uni221F
- sun is now called uni263C
- I had to move that .cap-variants of the accents to the PUA, because they
covered space where Unicode in between defined new characters. So I
systematically moved the .cap-Accents to:
grave.cap uni0358 -> uniE358
acute.cap uni0359 -> uniE359
circumflex.cap and so forth
caron.cap
breve.cap
hungarumlaut.cap
space_uni030F.cap
breveinvertedcmb.cap
breve.cyrcap 360
breve.cyr
dieresis.cap
hookabovecomb.cap
dotaccent.cap
(regular, italic)
- new point accent at uni0358
- new Mark for uni0358 in many O/o-characters
- improved support for POJ (Taiwan transcription)
- now kerning for kernclasspair p.sc + a.sc
- first use of contextual chaining substitution:
- when a combining accent follows an i, the dotlessi is used to prevent an
accent crash
- when one of the accented or leftwarding glyphs such as (ä, V) follow an f,
a short neck version of f (f.alt) is being used for optical reasons
- Added U+033B COMBINING SQUARE BELOW
- there was the "space" in a left kern class (together with dot, etc.). This
resulted in too few visible room when a "space" should seperate a word from the
now beginning quotation.
Italic: Correction of schwa
Changes to version 4.4.1 regular(-) & italic(/) & capitals (C) (20090321)
- First release of Linux Biolinum and its bold variant
- New paragraphs signs (uni00A7 and uni00B6)
- nicer guillemets uni00AB and 00BB as well as the single ones
- improved "copyright"-sign and "registered"-sign
- improved micro-sign
- further improvements in the small capitals set
- superior/inferior h, i, j, n, r has now new serifs, too
- new dotaccent.cap-glyph (slightly bigger than dotaccent) for capital glyphs
- j slightly improved upper serif (now similar to i)
- improvements in row of IPA-signs (recent serifs etc)
- Asterisk has now f-height (a bit lower than before) and lost bearing left and
right
- 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 slight improvements
- tilde, slight improvements
- cedilla improved (now somewhat thicker)
- ae improved
- C, c, e, t new finely bulged runner (or however you might call the thin end of
these letters)
- brought some ligatures up to recent baseglyph form
- florin improved
- dansk ring accent improved -> aring
- comma accent improved, in characters with this accent the latter have now the
same vertical position
- roman numbers improved
- and many smaller things I forgot to note
- as well as hopefully all that I marked as "solved" in the bug tracker
- same height for underbar in unicode positions as well in combined chars with
uni0331 (same with italic)
- frac-table: wrong entry "three fraction eight -> fiveeights" corrected
- Glyph-naming synchronized for
Biolinum Re, Biolinum Bd,
- uni0361 (ligature symbol) and 035C (ligature aubsymbol)added
- uni033B (quadratic subaccent) added
- vertical position of combining-accent-macron and true macron-unicode-glyphs
equalized
Changes to version 4.1.8 regular(-) & italic(/) & capitals (C) (20081103)
- finer and more organic serifs for nearly all glyphs
- basic EM-background proportion changed to 726 (above base line) and 472 (below
the baseline)
- Fonts bounds/linespacing in TTF and OTF adjusted
- E, F: a bit thinner now
- A,V,W,v,w design improvements in diagonals
- some small improvements in spacing of small basic latin charakters
- reduced overshoot for wide-round contours
- a, e: small designchange
- m is a little wider now
- basic working EM is now 1000 instead of 2048
- tz-ligature
- z's diagonal is a bit thicker, the horizontals a bit thinner, now
- new glyphs like curl for bible studies
- shortened few overbounding glyphs
- improvements in polytonic greek
- J, j: change in design of the bow and drop
Changes to version 2.9 (unreleased) regular(-) & italic(/) & capitals (C)
(20080619)
- There was a compiling-problem with the LinLibertine_Re-2.8.14.otf that caused
a unusable GSUB-table. Though outline-information seemed to be unaffected MacOSX
didnât want to intall it. This version should be without this bug, the reason
for the old bug could not be discovered.
- Change in the OpenType-Substitution table (different order of interpretation:
sups and sinf should be substituted even if oldstyle flag is also set.
/ True Cyrrillic italics for the italic variant
/ new âaâ for the italic, also thinner p, n, m and e
/ Some stylistic improvements for italic numbers
/ new @ for the italic
- further kerning
/ improved accented characters in the italic variant
- Qâs tail is now more harmonic and looks as drawn out of the O and not as just
clipped to the bottom
- Qu (Q_u) has been improved and is now standard ligature
- new form for s_t- and c_t-ligature, Thanks to Nathan!
- OpenType-GSUB-table has been improved. New functionality for Romanian and
Moldavian (comma-accent instead of cedilla), for Turky (idotaccent.sc is chosen
when Tyrkish is default language, otherwiese i.sc is the small capital form
used; f_i_()-ligatures are set off in Turkish because it hinders the
differenciation of f-i and f-dotlessi in that language.
/ Italic variant now uses the same perfect OpenType-GSUB as the regular.
/ new a.sc for the italic. Adding missing sc-glyphs, bring others to the latest
design.
Changes to version 2.8.14 regular(|) & italic(/) & capitals (20080619)
- TTF-Hinting improvements because of better TTF-Instruction of FontForge
- some small kerning improvements
- glyphs U+02BE and U+02BF are no combining charakters > corrected
- kerning problem with 9 in italic corrected
- some small corrections as usual
- slavonic church signs added
- Added cartouches for numbers between 0 and 99 at uniE128 till uniE12A
- Change punctuationspace to width of fullstop (.) It is now 450 of width and
not 350.
Changes to version 2.7.9 regular(|) & italic(/) & capitals (20071228)
>Inconsistent/incorrect glyph names 2.7.9 Private: (?)
>No
>The fonts do not use glyph names consistently. LinLibertineC_Re-2.7.3..ttf
>is currently especially problematic. For example,
>f_i is called uniE0B8
>f_l uniE0B9
both chars removed (senseless in a caps-font)
>Euro.fitted zero.oldstyle
>Yen.fitted one.oldstyle
>perthousandzero five.oldstyle
>zero.oldstyle six.oldstyle
>one.oldstyle seven.oldstyle
>two.oldstyle uniE022
>three.oldstyle nine.oldstyle
>four.oldstyle uniE024
>five.oldstyle uniE025
>six.oldstyle uniE026
>seven.oldstyle uniE027
>eight.oldstyle uniE028
>nine.oldstyle uniE029
All above corrected
>zero.taboldstyle uniE118
>one.taboldstyle uniE119
>two.taboldstyle uniE11A
>three.taboldstyle uniE11B
>four.taboldstyle uniE11C
>five.taboldstyle uniE11D
>six.taboldstyle uniE11E
>seven.taboldstyle uniE11F
>eight.taboldstyle uniE120
>nine.taboldstyle uniE121
All above corrected
>In LinLibertineU_Re-2.2.7.ttf, for example,
>f_f is called ff
>f_i fi
>f_l fl
>f_f_i ffi
>f_f_l ffl
>s_t st
All above corrected
>In LinLibertine_BI-2.7.2.ttf, for example,
>z.alt is called uniE093
>J.alt uniE094
>and the following names refer to blank glyphs:
>f_b
>f_h
>f_j
>f_f_b
>f_f_j
>f_f_k
>f_f_h
>f_f_t
All above corrected
>The glyph names listed as "correct" above are based on what the majority of
>the fonts in the family use. (E.g. it would actually be easier if the
>ligatures were named ff, fi, fl etc. but since only a few are named in that
>way, I assume f_f, f_i, f_l etc. are the intended names.)
These are actually the names Adobe defined for ligatures in OpenTypes always
a_b_c...
>The inconsistent naming of glyphs and the use of names for blank glyphs
>make installing for use with pdftex significantly more complex and much
>more frustrating than is necessary.
Yes, this is true. That was of course a bug.
>I don't know how it affects other uses
>of the fonts, however.
Wrong PS-Names affect just OpenType-capable programs. Normal office use is not
affected.
>The examples I've given are those which were most
>important to me when preparing metric files and virtual fonts for use with
>pdftex.
Changes to version 2.7.9 regular(|) & italic(/) & capitals (20071228)
- new Hinting! Now it is possible to use Libertine with Word on Windows
properly. The shape on screen should be clearer now on every system!
- new kern pairs for better typography
- some wrong contour directions corrected
- many small corrections
- OT "fina" has been removed from wordend-sigma
- countless small improvements
- kerning for Caps variant
- the conflict (that came up lately with a library update) between underlined
and regular is diminished
Changes to version 2.6.9 regular(|) & italic(/) & capitals (20070423)
Gernerally:
- Symbols for âpageâ, âgraphâ, âpictureâ and âtableâ added
- Oldstyle numbers (minuscle numbers) were just contained as
proportionals. Somebody wanted them also as table numbers. Ladder became
standard oldstyles now. Some of these glyphs look somewhat thinner to fit them
on the fixed width.
-bold italic variant had a wrong style entry which seemed to confuse
Mac's fonthandling, also other style confusions should be fixed now
-bold italic also had wrong metrics which resulted in a cutoff of glyph
parts and wrong line spacing.
German interests:
-groÃes Eszett hinzugefügt (uni1E9E) entsprechend Kapitälchen-Eszett
-kleines Eszett so verändert, dass es zum groÃen passt (Å¿z statt Å¿s),
das vorige Eszett ist als germandbls.alt weiterenthalten
-Im Stilsatz ss03 kann für Schweizer nun automatisch von Eszetts auf ss
umgestellt werden.
-die dt. ÃÃÃ sind nun von der Alternativposition an die rechte Stelle
gerückt. Für die nichtdeutschsprachige Nutzung empfehlen sich jetzt die (vormals
standart, jetzt aber auf die Alternativposition gewechselten Akzentuierten)
Cyrillic:
Due to A. Panovs help hopefully a lot of design impriovements for the
cyrrilic alphabet.
Mainly: РРРРРФ Ш Щ Ъ Ы Ь РЮ Ө (and its small letter derivates) For
details:
("Ь" in regular typeface has extra contour at left bottom.)
--corrected--
Lower part of "Ь" and "Ъ" (and for lowercase letters "Ñ", "Ñ",
"Ñ",
"Ñ£") differ. I think the letter "Ь" (or "Ñ" for lowercase)
should be
used as base for others.
("Ф" is still slightly asymmetric with respect to vertical axis.
It may produce artefacts with rendering.)
--corrected--
(Middle vertical stems in "Ш", "Щ" have not rounded lower
edges.)
--corrected--
("Ш", "Ñ" are not quite symmetric agains middle vertical axis
(all
typefaces). "Щ", "Ñ" must be updated accordingly.)
--corrected--
(The tongue in "Ð" can have two stylistic variants: straight and
tilde-like. )
OK, then tilde-like.
(The designer decides which version should be selected. Some
other letters should follow this decision: U+0472, U+04E8, U+0404, etc.)
--corrected--
(The capital letters U+0472 and U+04E8 usually are identical,
excepting the case of archaic (before ca. XVIII century) form of U+0472.)
--corrected--
(The U+0473 frequently is narrower than "o" and U+04E9. In case
of a tilde-tongue in "Ð" a tongue in U+0404 is not flipped, i.e. it has the same
diriction as in "Ð".)
--corrected--
Small Caps:
- Some changes here for better spacing.
- FO-overlap (due to wrong kerning entry) removed
Bolded:
- Complete revision of the bold version. Should result in a clearer
shape and better thin-width-contrast
OpenType:
- Due to better support in the FontForge editor the OpenType-tables have
been completely redefined.
Changes to version 2.5.9 regular(|) & italic(/) & capitals (20070423)
- countless improvements as usual
- some unicode standard optimizations (NUL-glyph, .notdef, ...)
- U+0180 group of charakters were sometimes not the way the latest unicode wants
them so we changed them. This refers mainly to the differentiation of capital
and small letters
- Vietnamese horned vokals have been changed the way, that the horn is now
always at the same hight. All accented vietnamese glyphs were revised
- some optic improvements in placement of accents
- added a capital variant of hookabove and changed all the capital letters to
this new hookabove form. It is wider and lower for better line-holding
- kerning was greatly improved, i.e.: Kombinations like "f)", "f?", "(j"...
shouldn't overlap anymore. Capital letter words should now be better spaced.
- There was one wrong cyrrilic letter Lje (U+0409).
And there were some correct objections to the handling of the downgoing serif in
Dzhe/dzhe, De/de, Tse/tse, Shcha/shcha. These now have the same depth and
similar form
- Some small changes in cyrrilics most complex letter Zhe
but also in Ef
in the hardening and softening signs (should not look like a reversed P but like
the bud of the B),
Ya shouldn't look like a flipped R,
be had a too right tail,
breve.cyr didn't look cyrrillic enough,
ef shouldn't be too calligraphic,
dje/she have now x-hight-bars
- due to a bug U+1fc7 (an accented eta) was missing
- some eagled-eyed person had seen that the U+721 was not at its place
- perthousandzero added at U+E00E for full LaTex-support
- some accented smallcaps added to basic font table for LaTex-support (This
doesn't affect the Caps-version of Libertine, which already had all these
glyphs)
- removed a cyrrilic opentype entry that substituted N-o with the numberligature
because a stupid GNOME environment read out this table entry on a Spanish system
and messed up typography...
Changes to version 2.4.9 regular(|) & italic(/) & capitals (20070309)
- many countless improvements
- some letters are slimer now: a, k, c, r
this is especially useful for languages with longs words. German in the first
place...
- on screen letters with round parts should now look more equal on screen
-C, D, G, S have now better (shorter) serifs which are more useful for the
standart printing size of 12-10pt
- the thinnest line should now have a width of at least 50 (improvements for
12-10pt printing)
- the whole range from U+180 -> U+01BF has been reworked
-small improvements in the IPA-Extensions
-for better acception of the old greek we changed the inverted breve to a tilde
which is more widely used..., accents also have received some improvements
-The cyrillic alphabeth has had again great changes due to unsatisfied users. We
now have more equal cyrillic serifs, some letters are thinner some wider,
spacing has been renewed
-p,i have now horizontal serifs in the cyrillic
-the bold regular is greatly improved. It's now fatter, looks more elegant
- the curive has also improvements:
J is now better
many things are corresponding to the improvements in the regular
-improvements in the capital variant
Changes to version 2.3.2regular(|) & italic(/) & capitals (20060920)
Countless improvements...
-especially for the italic, the kyrillic
-polish accents ogonki are now what they should be
-new: hebrew alphabeth
-numbers
-accents brought to one hight (some dotted chars weren't)
-Same hight for capitals (already one point difference can the letter look
higher on screen. For print this doesn't play any role...
-superior/inferior numbers improved
-ae looks now different: mor organic. If you don't like this. Theres also an old
variant at the end of the font
-ij ligature isn't connected anymore
-greek accented chars improved (accents should now be optically at the same
position), kappa improved
-planet signs added
-Sternkreiszeichen hinzugefügt
-male, female,... improved
