aaronbell/hepta-slab

Hepta Slab

Description

Hepta Slab is a slab-serif revival based on specimens of antique genre types from Bruce and Co., primarily Antique 307. The family consists of 9 weights with the extremes intended for display use and the middle weights for setting text.

Features

Features include lining numerals, oldstyle numerals, case sensitive punctuation, fractions, superior and inferior numerals as well as multiple stylistic alternates.

Notes

Glyphs marked in a color are indicated on the labelkey.txt file in the sources folder. The list can be viewed in Glyphs App with the LabelKey plugin via the Glyphs Plugin Manager.

Building

Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.

If you particularly want to build fonts manually on your own computer, you will need to install the yq utility. On OS X with Homebrew, type brew install yq; on Linux, try snap install yq; if all else fails, try the instructions on the linked page.

Then:

• make build will produce font files.
• make test will run FontBakery's quality assurance tests.
• make proof will generate HTML proof files.

License

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Repository Layout

This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3, modified for the Google Fonts workflow.

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ChangeLog

When you make modifications, be sure to add a description of your changes, following the format of the other entries, to the start of this section.

1 Sep 2021 (Aaron Bell) ‘Hepta Slab’ v1.101

• Converted to UFR

23 May 2018 (Mike LaGattuta) ‘Hepta Slab’ v0.016

• Added more kerning pairs

14 May 2018 (Mike LaGattuta) ‘Hepta Slab’ v0.014

• Added T_h c_h c_t and s_t discretionary ligatures
• Wrote script to fix metrics keys on 2nd Master. (Sidebearings are currently wrong based on non-interpolated metrics keys)

9 May 2018 (Mike LaGattuta) ‘Hepta Slab’ v0.013

• Converted 3rd instance (ExtraLight) to Master for necessary corrections
• Pinching corrections

4 May 2018 (Mike LaGattuta) ‘Hepta Slab’ v0.009

• Added stylistic alternates for 1, 2, and 7
• Revised instance weights

19 April 2018 (Mike LaGattuta) ‘Hepta Slab’ v0.007

• Updated smallcaps height
• Changed oldstyle figures to half-ranging figures

27 March 2018 (Mike LaGattuta) ‘Hepta Slab’ v0.006

• Fixed @ symbol proportions
• Fixed ampersand counters
• General spacing improvements

Acknowledgements

If you make modifications, be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and description (D). This list is in alphabetical order according to last names.

N: Mike LaGattuta E: [email protected] W: https://michaellagattuta.com/ D: Designer