FONTLOG for the Libre Baskerville fonts

This file provides detailed information on the Libre Baskerville Font Software.

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

Basic Font Information:
Libre Baskerville is a webfont family optimized for body text. Based on 1941 ATF Baskerville Specimens, it has a taller x height, wider counters and minor contrast that allow it to work on small sizes in any screen.

Libre Baskerville characters set covers 103 Latin languages:
Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Comorian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino/Tagalog, Finnish, Flemish, French, Gaelic (Irish / Manx / Scottish), Gagauz, German, Gikuyu, Gilbertese/Kiribati, Greenlandic, Guarani, Haitian_Creole, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igo/Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Kashubian, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luba/Ciluba/Kasai, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Marquesan, Marshallese, Moldovan/Moldovian/Romanian, Montenegrin, Nauruan, Ndebele, Norwegian, Oromo, Palauan/Belauan, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Sami, Samoan, Sango, Serbian, Sesotho, Setswana/Sitswana/Tswana, Seychellois_Creole, SiSwati/Swati/Swazi, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok_Pisin, Tongan, Tsonga, Tswana, Tuareg/Berber, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Uzbek/Usbek, Wallisian, Walloon, Welsh, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu.

Join the project at:
http://www.impallari.com/projects/overview/libre-baskerville

Documentation can be found at www.impallari.com

To contribute to the project contact Pablo Impallari at impallari@gmail.com

ChangeLog

24 Sep 2012 (Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida) Libre Baskerville v0.16
- Initial public Beta release
- First draft for caps and lowercase.

29 Nov 2012 (Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida) Libre Baskerville v1.0
- Regular, Italic and Bold styles
- All ikerned
- Initial v1.0 release

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.

- 19 Sep 2014 (Bhikkhu Pesala), Balava v 1.0

- Initial public release
- Changed font name to Balava ("Strong" in the Pali language)
- Changed funits/em from 1000 to 2048 and removed hinting
- Added Petite Capitals based on the x-height: Latin, Basic Greek, some Latin Extended
- Added Small Capitals @ 80% of Caps Height: Latin, Basic Greek, some Latin Extended
- Added true superscripts, subscripts, and denominators for fractions
- Added Superscripts for Ordinals (A-Z, a-z, Èè Úú)
- Added Basic Greek character set 
- Added some Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, and full Latin Extended Additional
- Added some spacing modifier letters and combining diacritics for Latin Extended
- Added full set of low profile diacritics and stacking diacritics for Vietnamese
- Replaced Ring-Acute accent with separate glyphs. 
- Added some General Punctuation
- Added full set of Currency Symbols for Unicode 7.0 
- Added some Maths Symbols, basing metrics on Tabular Figure Widths 
- Added some Letterlike Symbols
- Added full set of Number Forms: Roman Numerals, and Precomposed Fractions for Unicode 7.0
- Added some Technical symbols
- Added all Arrows, Geometric Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols, and Dingbats.
- Added some common Mathematical Operators: 
- Added some Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs for Sunrise and Lunar Phases
- Added OldStyle Figures and Tabular Figures
- Added some Latin Extended D and Medieval Ligatures from Medieval Unicode Font Initiative
- Added Standard Ligatures fff, fffl for German in Alphabetic Presentation Forms
- Added many Discretionary Ligatures in Private Use Area
- Added full set of Alternative Fractions (aka Stacking Fractions or Nut Fractions) for 1/2 to 63/64
- Added Class-based kerning pairs > 26,000 to replace existing kerning pairs
- Added hinting with autohinter.exe in FontCreator 8.1 

- 02 October 2014 (Bhikkhu Pesala), Balava v 1.13 
- Improved superscripts and denominators to use proportional spacing like the digits.

- 03 October 2014 (Bhikkhu Pesala), Balava v 1.14 
- Improved ligatures, making them a consistent design for all four styles

- 09 October 2014 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.15
- Improved stacking diacritics
- Improved Dingbats
- Added custom naming fields (Font subfamily name for several languages)
- Fixed Some Bugs

- 23 October 2014 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.22
- Redesigned Roman Numerals as ligatures

- 7 March 2015 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.23
- Fixed some bugs in width of space characters in General Punctuation.

- 17 May 2015  (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.30
- Completed Latin Extended Additional and Dingbats to Unicode 7.0
- Added six glyphs to Latin Extended B for  ff [Fula], and ha [Hausa] language support
- Removed Localised Forms for Roman Numerals as it proved problematic
-  Improved glyph metrics for lowercase a-z bold italics
- Added Web OTF and WOFF versions with only a few symbols.

- 20 June 2015 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.30
- Completed Latin Extended Additional character set for Unicode 8.0
- Completed Currency Symbols characer set for Unicode 8.0
- Completed Number Forms character set for Unicode 8.0
- Completed Dingbats Character set for Unicode 8.0
- Added Titling Capitals feature using Single Adjustment of +10%

- 18 January 2016 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.31
- Fixed bug in eight spoked asterisk ($2733)
- Updated OpenType Fractions Feature

- 17 March 2016 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.33
- Improved stylistic sets.

- 5 November 2016 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.34
- Fixed kerning classes
- Made glyphs for double grave and acute accents more upright
- Added some kerning pairs

3 December 2016 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.40
- Added Romanian Language for localized forms 
- Added fij and ijacute ligatures for Dutch.
- Improved Turkish Lira and Georgian Lari Glyphs
- Added kerning class for 1/4 to 7/8 afrc
- Reduced size of cedilla and ogonek accents for smcp and pcap

4 February 2017 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.50
- Add Oo and Ee ogonek with acute for Nordic
- Adjusted some ogonek accents

6 March 2017 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.60
- Changed Stylistic Sets (salt) to Character Variants (cv01)
- Changed precedence of Historical Ligatures
- Improved spacing of Small Capitals and Petite Capitals
- Added many kerning pairs
- Added EO and eo ogonek acute for Nordic
- Removed hinting from WOFF versions (Add with ttfautohint if needed)

15 June 2017 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.70
- Replaced Romanian localised forms with a Stylistic Set.(Serif Apps don't support locl)
- Replaced contextual ligatures (on by default) with a Stylistic Set (off by default) for Velthuis encoded Pali text.
- Irony punctuation reversed question mark is a Standard Ligature substitution for ??, while -
Interrobang replaces ?! and inverse interrobang replaces ¿¡.
- Super/subscript glyphs (×÷) and thin space were added for use with fractions.(Apply this feature only to the text that needs to use it)
- Kerning pairs were added for subscripts and fractions that use them.
- Character Variants were improved and are now included in the Web and WOFF versions.

17 October 2017 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.80
- Fixed some bugs with kerning of ligatures, fi, fl, etc.
- Improved spacing for Qu dlig

23 October 2017 (Bhikkhu Pesala) Balava v 1.81
- Fixed some bugs with kerning of ei, el, etc.
- Add Glyphs for Bitcoin, Stupa and Pagoda Transport and Map Symbols

N: Bhikkhu Pesala
E: pesala@aimwell.org
W: http://www.softerviews.org/Fonts.html
D: Contributor

N: Pablo Impallari
E: impallari@gmail.com
W: http://www.impallari.com
D: Designer

N: Rodrigo Fuenzalida
E: hello@rfuenzalida.com
W: http://www.rfuenzalida.com
D: Designer
