FONTLOG Andika v1.000 ========================== This file provides detailed information on the Andika family of fonts. This information should be distributed along with the Andika fonts and any derivative works. Basic Font Information ---------------------- Andika ("Write!" in Swahili) is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font designed especially for literacy use, taking into account the needs of beginning readers. The focus is on clear, easy-to-perceive letterforms that will not be easily confused with one another. A sans serif font is preferred by some literacy personnel for teaching people to read. Its forms are simpler and less cluttered than some serif fonts can be. For years, literacy workers have had to make do with fonts that were available but not really suitable for beginning readers and writers. In some cases, literacy specialists have had to tediously cobble together letters from a variety of fonts in order to get the all of characters they need for their particular language project, resulting in confusing and unattractive publications. Andika addresses those issues. After receiving many insightful comments on the Design Review and Basic fonts, we have refined Andika's final letterforms, with alternate shapes still available for some characters. With the SIL TypeTuner utility (see http://scripts.sil.org/TypeTuner), you can select which alternates to use as Andika's default letterforms. This font now contains the same character set as Charis SIL and Doulos SIL. One font from this typeface family is included in this release: * Andika Regular Work is ongoing to provide italic, bold and bold-italic weights. Features -------- Andika supports all of the smart font features that the Doulos SIL font supports. It also contains features specific to Andika. These are: Capital Q alternate Lower case j serif alternate Lower case q alternate No-tail t and y alternates Numeral 0 1 4 6 7 9 alternates Tail i and l alternates More detail on features can be seen at http://scripts.sil.org/SILUnicodeRF_Features. A Note Regarding the Open Font License and TypeTuner ---------------------------------------------------- The OFL prohibits the use of Reserved Font Names "Andika" and "SIL" in the name of any font that is derived from the Original Version of Andika. However, SIL International (the Copyright Holder) grants through this separate written agreement the right to use the Reserved Font Names in any Modified Version of this font created by using TypeTuner as long as the feature information contained in the Original Version is used, unmodified, as the source for TypeTuner feature information, and "Andika" is not the resulting font family name. TypeTuner-produced fonts created in this manner are still bound by the terms of the OFL. Specifically, the use of Reserved Font Names is prohibited when making derivatives of a TypeTuner-produced font. Anyone making a derivative of a TypeTuner font will need to find a different name. For example a TypeTuner-produced font may be named "Andika Non-Literacy SomeFarAwayPlace" but a derivative of that font made with other tools would not be allowed to use the "Andika" or "SIL" Reserved Font Names and would have to be named something like "Write Sans". ChangeLog ---------- (This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.) 8 July 2011 (SIL NRSI team) Andika Regular version 1.000 - Released under SIL Open Font License. 2 May 2008 (SIL NRSI team) Andika Basic Regular version 1.0 - Released under SIL Open Font License. 19 January 2007 (SIL NRSI team) Andika Design Review version 0.001 - Released under Open Font License. Five new fonts containing revisions of some glyphs and different combinations of others. 7 Aug 2006 (SIL NRSI team) Andika Design Review version 0.001 - Released under Open Font License. Acknowledgements ----------------- (Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description (D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.) N: Don Collingsworth E: nrsi@sil.org W: http://scripts.sil.org/ D: Contributed some extended Latin glyphs N: Victor Gaultney E: victor_gaultney@sil.org W: http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/ D: Original Designer N: Eric Hays E: nrsi@sil.org W: http://scripts.sil.org/ D: Contributed some extended Latin glyphs N: Annie Olsen E: andika@sil.org W: http://scripts.sil.org/ D: Lead Designer N: Julie Remington E: nrsi@sil.org W: http://scripts.sil.org/ D: Contributed some extended Latin glyphs N: SIL font engineers E: nrsi@sil.org W: http://scripts.sil.org/ D: Graphite, OpenType, and TypeTuner code, and build support The Andika and Andika Basic fonts are maintained by SIL International. For more information please visit the Andika page on SIL International's Computers and Writing Systems website: http://scripts.sil.org/andika Or send an e-mail to