UnifrakturMaguntia, a Unicode Fraktur Font

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Download and Inſtallation
@font-face embedding
About the Font
Build Information
Compariſon of different verſions
Features

Download and Inſtallation

The lateſt releaſe of UnifrakturMaguntia is UnifrakturMaguntia.2012-10-19.ttfautohint.zip (for other releaſes, browſe http://sourceforge.net/projects/unifraktur/files/fonts/).

For inſtallation, doubleclick the TTF file that is included in the ZIP archive, and your OS ſhould aſk you whether you want to inſtall the font.

@font-face embedding

Since this font is available at UnifrakturMaguntia Font Family – Google Web Fonts, you can eaſily embed it on your internet ſite.

The ſafeſt way to embed the font is by placing the following line of code at the beginning of the <head> tag of your HTML code:

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=UnifrakturMaguntia' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

After that, you may uſe the font name UnifrakturMaguntia in ſubſequent CSS definitions, for inſtance like this:

p {
  font-family: UnifrakturMaguntia;
}

Or like that:

<p style="font-family: UnifrakturMaguntia">Your text</p>

About the Font

UnifrakturMaguntia is baſed on Peter Wiegel’s font Berthold Mainzer Fraktur. The main differences from Peter Wiegel’s font are the following:

UnifrakturMaguntia uſes OpenType for diſplaying the font’s ligatures.
UnifrakturMaguntia is optimized for @font-face embedding on the internet. And of courſe, it has a ſuitable licenſe, the OFL, that explicitly allows font embedding!
All letters and many other glyphs have been carefully redrawn by G. Ansmann.

Build Information

This font has been edited with FontForge, the free outline font editor.

Compariſon of different verſions

Verſion	Sample phraſe
2012-10-19	ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone – ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone
2012-10-19†	ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone – ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone
2012-10-17	ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone – ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone
2012-10-17†	ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone – ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone
2012-07-26†	ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone – ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone
2012-07-21†	ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone – ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone
2012-02-11	ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone – ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone
2010-11-24*	ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone – ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone
2010-11-24	ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone – ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone
2010-08-17	ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone – ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone
2010-07-21	ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone – ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone
2010-06-19	ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone – ſit‍zt falſche Zeit‌zone

* Google Font API distribution.

† Built with ttfautohint.

Here is what the ſample phraſe ſhould look like. It is a ſcreenſhot from Firefox 15.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.8:

The ſample phraſe uſes the following code:

ſit&zwj;zt falſche Zeit&zwnj;zone

This allows the teſting of ſeveral features:

Are required ligatures (ſuch as ‹tz›) displayed? They ſhould always be displayed, irreſpective of the letterſpacing.
Are normal ligatures (ſuch as ‹ſi›) displayed correctly? They ſhould only be displayed when the letterſpacing is normal.
Does the &zwj; trigger a ligature?
Does the &zwnj; inhibit a ligature?
Remain &zwj; and &zwnj; non-ſpacing when letterſpacing is increaſed?

Features

This is an overview of the OpenType Layout features that are implemented in UnifrakturMaguntia 2012-10-19.

Feature	Sample	Code
Feature	Sample	CSS	XeLaTeX
Common ligatures**	hat‌te → hatte	`"liga"`	`Ligatures=Common`
Required ligatures**	Schat‌z → Schatz	`"ccmp"`	(always on)
No common ligatures	hatte → hatte	`"liga" off`	`Ligatures=NoCommon`
Historic ligatures	etc. → etc.	`"hlig"`	`Ligatures=Historic`
Monospaced numbers	12345 → 12345	`"tnum"`	`Numbers=Monospaced`
Uppercase numbers	12345 → 12345	`"lnum"`	`Numbers=Uppercase`
Long ſ	schönstes → schönstes	`"cv01"`	`CharacterVariant=1`
Round r	error → error	`"cv02"`	`CharacterVariant=2`
Special š	š → š	`"cv03" 1`	`CharacterVariant=3:0`
	š → š	`"cv03" 2`	`CharacterVariant=3:1`
	š → š	`"cv03" 3`	`CharacterVariant=3:2`
	š → š	`"cv03" 4`	`CharacterVariant=3:3`
	š → š	`"cv03" 5`	`CharacterVariant=3:4`
Historic u and v	Und bevor → Und bevor	`"ss01"`	`StylisticSet=1`
Historic i and j	Ist bejaht → Ist bejaht	`"ss02"`	`StylisticSet=2`
Historic ä ö ü	ä ö ü → ä ö ü	`"ss03"`	`StylisticSet=3`
Historic Ä Ö Ü	Ä Ö Ü → Ä Ö Ü	`"ss04"`	`StylisticSet=4`
Alternative s diacritics	š ś ŝ ṡ → š ś ŝ ṡ	`"ss05"`	`StylisticSet=5`
Long š ś ŝ	š ś ŝ → š ś ŝ	`"ss06"`	`StylisticSet=6`
Alternative ď ť	ď ť → ď ť	`"ss07"`	`StylisticSet=7`

** Theſe features ſhould be activated by default. Their explicit activation ſhould (theoretically) not be required.

A CSS ſetting – for inſtance for the long ſ – may look as follows:

-moz-font-feature-settings: "cv01";
-webkit-font-feature-settings: "cv01";
-ms-font-feature-settings: "cv01";
font-feature-settings: "cv01";

Setting the features in XeLaTeX requires the package fontspec. One poſſibility of ſetting the features may be ſeen in the file UnifrakturMaguntia-features.tex.

The exact configuration of the features may be ſubject to changes in future verſions of the font.