[cantarell-fonts] Clean up README somewhat.
- From: Nikolaus Waxweiler <nwaxweiler src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [cantarell-fonts] Clean up README somewhat.
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 14:47:51 +0000 (UTC)
commit ce241fac1693ac5802b80f3fff872977a51e53aa
Author: Nikolaus Waxweiler <madigens gmail com>
Date: Sat Jan 9 15:47:27 2016 +0100
Clean up README somewhat.
README | 48 +++++++++---------------------------------------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/README b/README
index 26ba422..72e4112 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-FONTLOG for Cantarell GNOME 0.0.5
-=================================
+FONTLOG for Cantarell GNOME
+===========================
This file provides detailed information on the Cantarell font
software. This information should be distributed along with the
@@ -36,17 +36,6 @@ fonts feature known as @font-face [5]. As Dave's very first typeface
design, the typeface has many faults, yet he asserts it achieves
his goal of improving readability on this device.
-The regular member of the family has had recieved the most focus, and a bold
-family has been developed quickly to provide better somewhat better results
-that an operating system's automatic bolding. In the case of oblique, we
-decided to rely on the system generated variant for now. An actual italics
-variant is planned.
-
-The Regular font fully supports the following writing systems:
-Basic Latin, Western European, Catalan, Baltic, Turkish, Central
-European, Dutch and Afrikaans. To date, Pan African Latin has
-only 33% glyph coverage.
-
Since the design is aimed at display on-screen at small sizes, the
printed output (especially of the bold and oblique) may not work
well. Fonts tuned to the needs of printing will be developed in
@@ -79,32 +68,13 @@ Developer information
---------------------
The original src/Cantarell-Regular.sfdir directory has the master
-sources as Cubic (PostScript) Bezier splines. There are temporary
-layers and a 'Spiro' layer in this file, containing forms used to
-create the master Cubic Bezier glyphs; the Spiro layer contains
-forms in Spiro splines, and much of the original typeface design
-by Dave Crossland was done by drawing in Spiro splines. However
-today the master drawing spline format is Cubic Bezier, and Spiro
-splines are used to inform their creation.
-
-The Cantarell-Regular.sfdir directory is the _master_ source, and was
-used to generate Cantarell-Bold.sfdir which is now a hard fork.
-
-All development occurs by making changes to these drawing files.
-When OTF binaries are compiled, they are copied to the
-Cantarell-*-OTF.sfd files and then a build process applied.
-
-This means that there should be a 1:1 match between these files,
-the OTF files in the otf/ directories, and the
-output of generating new OTF files from FontForge.
-
-The build process is simple; the Spiro and temp layers are
-removed, and then all glyphs have the Simplify, Add Extrema,
-Round to Int, and Correct Direction operations applied.
-
-In the future a build script will be developed to do this in an
-automated way, which will be important for adding OpenType
-Layout features through a feature.fea file.
+sources as Cubic (PostScript) Bezier splines. It was used to generate
+Cantarell-Bold.sfdir which is now a hard fork and the bold master. Many
+glyphs were imported back from Pooja Saxena's Cambay.
+
+All development occurs by making changes to these drawing files. Produce
+.otf font files with "make" at the command line. It will automatically
+generate obliqued variants of the masters.
ChangeLog
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