googlefonts/changa-vf

Variable font fork of the Changa typeface (Latin, Arabic)

The Changa Fonts Project (Eli's Fork)

This information should be distributed along with the Changa fonts and any derivative works.

Changa is a typeface family intended for headlines, titles and other display settings and supports the Latin and Arabic scripts.

The Latin was developed with a singular height so that you can create display texts with minimum line spacing. The lowercase has short ascenders and descenders and the letters are inscribed within a square. The uppercase is also sturdy and squat. The counter shapes are rectangular, featuring small curves in opposite vertexes which accompany and break the shapes, evoking a contemporary style.

The Arabic was also drawn by Eduardo Tunni in Buenos Aires in collaboration with M. Gaber in Cairo.

Changa could be expanded to support other styles and scripts.

Changa is available from Google Fonts at http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Changa

Source files are available from https://github.com/etunni/Changa

To contribute to the project, please visit https://github.com/etunni/Changa/issues

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.

History

28 June 2016 (Eduardo Tunni)

• Minor fixes in arabic letters "yeh" and "yehHamzaabove-ar.init"

3 March 2016 (Eduardo Tunni, Dave Crossland) Changa v2.001

• Minor metadata fixes

27 February 2015 (Eduardo Tunni) Changa v2.001

• Expanded to 7 weights
• Expanded to Arabic script with consulting from Gaber

31 October 2012 (Eduardo Tunni) Changa v1.001

• Initial release of Regular as a single weight family

2 Sept 2011 (Eduardo Tunni) Changa One v1.001

• Initial release of ExtraBold as a single weight family

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.

N: Eduardo Tunni
E: [email protected]
W: http://www.tipo.net.ar
D: Original Type Designer

changa-vf's Issues

Wrong Arabic rendering when used with diacritics

An example with this word
النُّورَ

Shaddah and any other diacritics character that come in direct succession will cause a gap to appear right after, even in the middle of the word