Junicode version 2.209

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI), with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Version 2.209 is the last release for which the static TrueType version will be packaged in the distribution archive: future releases will include only static CFF and variable TrueType versions. The reason for this change is that there are significant and long-standing problems with the auto-hinted TrueType version (the variable TrueType version is manually hinted). However, users will be able to build the TrueType version using the scripts in Junicode’s GitHub repository.

This version of Junicode adds more than forty new glyphs for the Ansund project. It also adjusts the slant of proportional old-style figures; fixes an occasional problem with the combining dot accent; fixes a bug in the junicodevf LaTeX package; adds a couple of archaic phonetic characters; and fixes a bug that prevented the correct operation of a shortcut key combination in Adobe InDesign.

Junicode version 2.208

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI), with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Version 2.208 rearranges naming and encoding of standard f-ligatures to work better with the TeX font utility otftotfm. It also adds U+1DC4 combining macron-acute.

Junicode version 2.207

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI), with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

In version 2.207, U+02DE Modifier Letter Rhotic Hook harmonizes or ligatures with any preceding IPA vowel character.

A number of glyphs have been added: some for the Ansund project, some for a specific publishing project, some by user request. Note especially the editorial symbols U+2E00-2E0D; new shapes of U+2E4E punctus elevatus; small cap Q with extended and superextended tail (matching the uppercase forms); new "Aldine" shapes of asterisk; and generic shapes of the Tironian et/Et sign (U+2E52, U+204A, designed to fit any context and available via cv69[6-9]):

The italic face also has one significant redesign: the bar of t (with associated ligatures and digraphs) has been moved to let it harmonize better with surrounding glyphs.

Junicode version 2.206

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI), with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Version 2.206 adds 140 ligatures for the five tone modifiers (02E5 02E6 02E7 02E8 02E9). These are made from 23 components so as to keep the footprint as small as possible. The TeX junicodevf package now contains settings for 11 point sizes instead of six, for more finely tuned behavior. Documentation for the TeX packages is now included in the Junicode Manual, which has also acquired an index of OpenType features.

Junicode version 2.205

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI), with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Version 2.205 includes some improvements to metrics and kerning, an expansion of the coverage of ss20 Low Diacritics, and corrections and improvements to the TeX packages.

Junicode version 2.204

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI), with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Version 2.204 incorporates the latest additions to the MUFI recommendation, plus various changes suggested by users, the most significant of which is a revision to Stylistic Set 7 (Underdotted) that expands Latin coverage and completely covers Greek. In addition, this release includes a little utility for LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX users that loads Junicode, accepting various options to customize it. The file “Encoded Characters” has been deleted and a code chart added to the Junicode Manual as Chapter Ten.

Junicode version 2.203

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Version 2.203 completes the current to-do list for the Ansund project and improves the rendering of Irish text.

Junicode version 2.202

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Version 2.202 adds twenty-one glyphs for the Ansund project and improves support for the Turkish language.

Junicode version 2.201

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Version 2.201 adds a number of new glyphs for the Ansund project. Rustic capitals and Lombardic capitals have been moved from ss11 to salt (Stylistic Alternates).

Junicode version 2.200

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Junicode 2.200 features miscellaneous fixes and additions, and it also inaugurates a long-term program of adding glyphs for the benefit of the Ansund HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) project, which is developing tools for the automated reading of medieval manuscripts. Of the additions made so far, the ones likely to be of greatest interest to users are two series of medieval capitals, available via features ss11[1] and ss11[2]. The first series consists of rustic capitals, often used for text in late ancient and early medieval times and for rubrics (headings) in the central Middle Ages. The second consists of Lombardic capitals, used in the central and later Middle Ages for what are now called drop caps. These capitals are designed to harmonize with Junicode to the greatest degree possible while remaining faithful to the medieval sources.