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.