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UniFraktur • Free fraktur font reſources

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Motivation

The goal of the UniFraktur project is providing free reſources ſo blackletter font developers can add ſmart features to their fonts. It focuſes eſpecially on covering a wide range of ſmart font technologies. Since there is no ſingle ſtandard for ſmart font technologies, compability will benefit when a font includes different technologies. Currently, UniFraktur includes OpenType, Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) and Graphite.

Blackletter fonts may ſeem outdated or even reactionary. That’s preciſely why I find a tongue-in-cheek pleaſure at combining them with the moſt advanced ſmart font technologies available. Don’t leave blackletter to the outdated and reactionary people – reappropriate it!

News

2012-02-11
New releaſe:

Major improvements of all Latin letters (A–Z, a–z, long ſ, round ꝛ) and their ligatures by Gerrit Ans‌mann:

  • Simplification, ſmoothing and alignment of all glyphs;
  • new hinting, including "BlueValues" (global hinting ſettings);
  • improvement of glyph width;
  • ſignificant changes to the bar height on f, k, t, long ſ;
  • ſignificant changes or new deſign of many glyphs, including: s, I, J, Æ, Œ, Ø, Þ, Ð, ø, æ, œ, /, <, >, all ligatures, all accents (except i-dot and diaereſis) and accented letters;
  • the following glyphs have been removed: ƒ, all ligatures with ſſ, ll (replaced by a kerning pair), ſch, ſs;
  • new glyphs: ſj, ij, IJ, ſeveral accented glyphs.

Overhaul of the OpenType features by Georg Duffner:

  • cv01 will turn round s into long ſ except at the ends of words – manual override: ZWNJ;
  • cv02 will turn regular r into round ꝛ after round letters and r;
  • cv03 will turn capital Ä Ö Ü into Ae Oe Ue;
  • ss01 will uſe hiſtoric ſtyliſtic variants of u U v V;
  • ss02 will uſe hiſtoric ſtyliſtic variants of i I j J;
  • hlig will turn etc. into ꝛc.;
  • dlig will turn nn and mm into n̄ m̄ (formerly hlig).

AAT and Graphite ſupport has been dropped for the normal releaſe which is intended for web uſe ſince no browſer ſupports them. In the future, a ſpecial releaſe with AAT and Graphite ſupport is planned (mainly for LibreOffice). The previous releaſe, UnifrakturMaguntia.2010-11-24.zip, ſupports AAT and Graphite.

2011-04-11
German translation; a few changes to fraktur letterſpacing; follow-up changes. The coding has been poſſible thanks to the help found at Pascal Fellerich’s page Apache Multiview – the .htaccess file I have uſed can be ſeen at unifraktur.htaccess.txt.
2010-12-14
Since there is now UnifrakturCook Font Family – Google Web Fonts, I have changed the ſite ſtyle to load UnifrakturCook through the Google Font API. Additionally, the pages on UnifrakturMaguntia and UnifrakturCook now have ſections that compare the different verſions of the reſpective fonts.
2010-12-05
Since there is now UnifrakturMaguntia Font Family – Google Web Fonts, I have changed the ſite ſtyle to load UnifrakturMaguntia through the Google Font API. Additionally, the page Unifraktur-Teſt has been deleted from the navigation ſince it has been ſuperſeeded by the Fraktur letterſpacing page.
2010-11-24
New releaſes:

Licenſe change: The fonts are now OFL only (with kind conſent by Peter Wiegel); the font names have no ſpaces in order to prevent troubles.

2010-09-18
Additional browſer teſts on the fraktur letterſpacing page:
2010-08-17
New releaſes:

The ZWJ has been added to the ligature mapping tables as appropriate, in accordance to the Implementation Notes of the “The Unicode Standard”, Verſion 5.2. Chapter 16: Special Areas and Format Characters, p. 506.

2010-08-14
New ſection to the page about Fraktur letterſpacing: Support in miſcellaneous applications.
2010-08-13
New page about Fraktur letterſpacing.
2010-07-21
New releaſes:

Theſe releaſes include the following changes:

  • The ſt-ligature is included with the required ligatures („rlig“ in OpenType, „required ligatues“ in AAT).
  • All ligatures of the OpenType „rlig“ feature are included a ſecond time in the „liga“ feature in order to achieve compatibility in applications that only recognize the latter.
  • FontForge autohinting has been added.

Additionally, there are two new pages for the fonts: UnifrakturMaguntia and UnifrakturCook.

2010-07-17
This page is now online. The recent releaſes of the fonts Unifraktur Maguntia and Unifraktur Cook can be downloaded at the UniFraktur Files on SourceForge.net. The UniFraktur-Forum (in German) is online.

Contact

You can reach me through e-mail at: j_maREMch_OVEwuTHISst@sharedTEXT-files.de.

For queſtions concerning UniFraktur, you may alternatively addreſs the UniFraktur-Forum (though it is in German, feel free to write in Engliſh).