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FONTLOGOld Standard font family========================

This file provides detailed information on the Old Standard family offonts. This information should be distributed along with the Old Standardfonts and any derivative works.

Basic Font Information----------------------

The Old Standard font family is an attempt to revive a specific type ofModern (classicist) style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in variouseditions printed in the late 19th and early 20th century, but almostcompletely abandoned later. Although contemporary typographers oftenconsider this lettertype obsolete and out-of-fashion, it still has at leasttwo advantages:

-- The classicist style still can be considered a good choice fortypesetting scientific papers, especially on social and humanitariansciences, as its specific features are closely associated in the people'seyes with old books they learned on;

-- the most beautiful examples of Greek and Cyrillic lettertypes were all

based on the Modern style, so that for those scripts "Modern" fontsare much more appropriate than any contemporary (e. g. Times-based)designs.

That's why the Old Standard font family has two main purposes: it isintended to be used as a specialized font for philologists (mainlyclassicists, germanists and slavists) and also as a general-purpose fontfor typesetting various editions in languages which use Greek or Cyrillicscript. For this reason Old Standard provides glyphs for a wide range ofLatin, Greek and Cyrillic characters.

The name "Old Standard" was selected as opposed to the "ObyknovennayaNovaya" ("New Standard") typeface, widely used in the Soviet typography,

which represents another, slightly different type of the same Modern style.The digital version of this font is now available from Paratype(http://www.paratype.ru). Of course this name doesn't look very original,but it seems to be a good choice for a revival of the most commonlettertype of the early 20th century.

ChangeLog---------

2008 November 24 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.0.2

* My TTF files somehow got autoinstructed with wrong settings. Thisresulted into inconsistent bearings under certain PPEM's.

2008 November 23 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.0.1

* Oops. GPOS kerning was broken in 2.0.

* If the same set of rules is shared by several features, thenuse just one lookup registered for more than one feature to store them.

2008 November 18 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 2.0


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+ A bold version is now available!

+ Added a full set of historical Cyrillic characters, as definedin Unicode 5.1;

+ Implemented Roman numerals and ancient Roman epigraphic letters(including Claudian letters).

* Switched to lookup-based representation of the OpenType datain the source files to conform the new FontForge's file format;

* Now both cubic and quadratic versions of the font outlines are storedin the same source files (one file for each style), as FontForge'snew approach to multilayered fonts allows this;

* Switched to OFL version 1.1;

* FontForge now can generate reasonably good TTF instructions (itcould not when OldStandard v. 1.0 was released). So the TTF fontsare now automatically instructed with FontForge. I still includethe old instructions for the regular version (prepared withPeter Baker's xgridfit utility) into the source package, but theyare no longer used in the font itself. This certainly makes someglyphs look worse, but improves the overall performance of the font

(especially in the antialiased mode);* Danish Aringacute redesigned (now has the acute at the top of the ringand a specially designed, reduced in size, diacritic for the capitalglyph);

* Redesigned cedilla and all combinations with this accent in the uprightfont;

* More contour cleanup;

* Added accented combinations with "W" for Welsh;

* Added several new math characters to the regular font. The intent wasto fully cover the TeX OMS encoding, but this task is still far frombeing reached;

* There is now a dedicated Unicode codepoint for capital insular "G"(U+A77D), so move the corresponding glyph to that location;

* Corrected the shape of Greek symbol phi (U+03D5). It is still notrecommended to use this glyph instead of the normal (looped) form;

* Several new characters have been added, including the Latin letter EZH(U+01B7/U+0292) and capital Es Zett for German (U+1E9E). There aresome new combining marks as well;

* I used to consider the breve accent should always take the typicallyCyrillic form when used after Cyrillic letters. However this assumptionseems to be wrong: the specific form of the diacritic is actuallyan attribute of just three letters, i. e. "short i" (Russian etc.),"Short u" (Byelorussian) and "zhe with breve" (Moldavian).

2007 July 14 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 1.1 (not released)

* Added Latin letters OPEN E and OPEN O, requested by an African user;


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* New glyph for ampersand in the upright font;

* Redesigned Polish ogonek and Czech comma-like caron;

* More work on italic Greek letters;

* General contour cleanup for some glyphs.

2007 January 22 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 1.0

* Added the WHITE SQUARE (U+25A1) character;

* Minor corrections in the fonts themselves and in the PDF manual.

2006 December 12 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.9

* Added a few more Latin Extended-B characters, yogh and wynn inparticular (thanks to Peter Baker for the valuable information on thedesign of the letter yogh he provided). I also have implementeduppercase and lowercase versions of the insular "g". Thus OldStandard is now suitable for typesetting texts in Old and MiddleEnglish.

* Added Hebrew aleph and a few Fraktur characters, useful for criticalapparatus, especially in Bible/New Testament editions.

* Implemented a full set of standard f-ligatures, present in mostOpenType fonts.

* Andrew Panov has convinced me to implement a set of mathematicalglyphs, designed in the style of traditional Russian mathtypesetting. These glyphs are currently available only in the regularversion of the font.

* A PDF manual, explaining various features of the font, is nowavailable.

* Greek sampi (both uppercase and lowercase) has been redesigned.

* Implemented Greek lunate epsilon and reversed lunate epsilon (thedesign doesn't match the remaining Greek letters though). Thus allUnicode slots intended for "alternate" and mathematical Greek glyphsare now covered.

* A few improvements in the TTF instructions for the regular font(drop-out control has been enabled).

* Several minor corrections in the OpenType layouts.

2006 October 01 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.8

* Implemented a set of TrueType instructions (hints) for the regularfont (italics are still unhinted). I would like to thank Peter Bakerfor his excellent (and extremely well documented) xgridfit program(http://xgridfit.sourceforge.net), which provides a good Open Sourcesolution for gridfitting, or "hinting," TrueType fonts.

* The TrueType version of the regular font now has a separate sourcefile (OldStandard.ttf.sfd) with quadratic splines.


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* Changed the naming convention for the TrueType version: the font namenow has a "TT" suffix, so that both TTF and OTF versions can beinstalled on the same system simultaneously.

* Added a few Latin Extended-B characters, useful mainly forgermanists, in particular "b" with bar, "o" with ogonek and hwair.Also I have corrected shapes of lowercase eth and thorn. Thus OldStandard now includes all characters necessary for representing OldIcelandic texts and Gothic transliteration. Still more characters(the most important of them being uppercase and lowercase yogh) areneeded for a proper support of Old/Middle English.

* As usual, a few minor bugs have been corrected.

2006 June 09 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.7

* Added OpenType layouts for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Specialattention has been paid to correct shaping and positioning ofdiacritical marks.

* Minor corrections of glyph shapes.

2006 May 08 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.6

* Licensing changed to the SIL Open Font License.

* Added Greek glyphs, including those in the U+1F00--U+1FFF "GreekExtended" Unicode range.

* Ukrainian and Serbian Cyrillic glyphs were redesigned in order tobring them into a better correspondance with real examples ofthe early 20th century printing.

* The standard mathematical operation signs were redesigned andsignificantly enlarged, so that now their implementation contradictsto the contemporary standards, but better corresponds to the European

tradition of math typesetting.* Several additional math characters, needed to provide a full coveragefor the Mac Roman encoding, have been added.

* Ancient Greek metrical characters (U+23D1--U+23D9) have beenimplemented.

* A TTF version is released in addition to OpenType-CFF fonts. It hasno hinting at all, so don't complain for bad screen rendering!

2006 Feb 14 (Alexey Kryukov) Version 0.2

* First public release.Acknowledgements----------------(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modificationsbe sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description(D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.)

N: Alexey KryukovE: [email protected]


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W: http://www.thessalonica.org.ruD: Original Designer of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs

For more information please visit the Fonts page on Thessalonica'swebsite: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html.

Or send an email to .

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