-*- mode:text; coding:utf-8; -*- GNU FreeFont Credits ==================== This file lists contributors and contributions to the GNU FreeFont project. * URW++ Design & Development GmbH URW++ donated a set of 35 core PostScript Type 1 fonts to the Ghostscript project , to be available under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL). Basic Latin (U+0041-U+007A) Latin-1 Supplement (U+00C0-U+00FF) Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F) Spacing Modifier Letters (U+02B0-U+02FF) Mathematical Operators (U+2200-U+22FF) Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F) Dingbats (U+2700-U+27BF) * Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega typesetting system, . Omega is an extension of TeX. Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's multilingual abilities. In Omega all characters and pointers into data-structures are 16-bit wide, instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating many of the trivial limitations of TeX. Omega also allows multiple input and output character sets, and uses programmable filters to translate from one encoding to another, to perform contextual analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not only make it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or complex languages, like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, in one document, but will also form the basis for future developments in other areas, such as native color support and hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family) and UT2 (omah family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript format and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families. Omega fonts are available subject to GPL Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF) Greek (U+0370-U+03FF) Armenian (U+0530-U+058F) Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF) Arabic (U+0600-U+06FF) Currency Symbols (U+20A0-U+20CF) Arabic Presentation Forms-A (U+FB50-U+FDFF) Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70-U+FEFF) Current info: * Valek Filippov Valek Filippov added Cyrillic glyphs and composite Latin Extended A to the whole set of the abovementioned URW set of 35 PostScript core fonts, . The fonts are available under GPL. Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F) Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF) * Wadalab Kanji Comittee Between April 1990 and March 1992, Wadalab Kanji Comittee put together a series of scalable font files with Japanese scripts, in four forms: Sai Micho, Chu Mincho, Cho Kaku and Saimaru. The font files are written in custom file format, while tools for conversion into Metafont and PostScript Type 1 are also supplied. The Wadalab Kanji Comittee has later been dismissed, and the resulting files can be now found on the FTP server of the Depertment of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo . Hiragana (U+3040-U+309F) Katakana (U+30A0-U+30FF) * Young U. Ryu Young Ryu is the author of Txfonts, a set of mathematical symbols designed to accompany text typeset in Times or its variants. In the documentation, Young adresses the design of mathematical symbols: "The Adobe Times fonts are thicker than the CM fonts. Designing math fonts for Times based on the rule thickness of Times = , , + , / , < , etc. would result in too thick math symbols, in my opinion. In the TX fonts, these glyphs are thinner than those of original Times fonts. That is, the rule thickness of these glyphs is around 85% of that of the Times fonts, but still thicker than that of the CM fonts." TX fonts are are distributed under the GNU public license (GPL). . Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF) Mathematical Symbols (U+2200-U+22FF) * Angelo Haritsis Angelo Haritsis has compiled a set of Greek Type 1 fonts, available on . The glyphs from this source has been used to compose Greek glyphs in FreeSans and FreeMono. Angelo's licence says: "You can enjoy free use of these fonts for educational or commercial purposes. All derived works should include this paragraph. If you want to change something please let me have your changes (via email) so that they can go into the next version. You can also send comments etc to the above address." Greek (U+0370-U+03FF) * Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich In 1999, Yannis Haralambous and Virach Sornlertlamvanich made a set of glyphs covering the Thai national standard Nf3, in both upright and slanted shape. The collection of glyphs have been made part of GNU intlfonts 1.2 package and is available under the GPL at . Thai (U+0E00-U+0E7F) * Shaheed R. Haque Shaheed Haque has developed a basic set of basic Bengali glyphs (without ligatures), using ISO10646 encoding. They are available under the XFree86 license at . Copyright (C) 2001 S.R.Haque . All Rights Reserved. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL S.R.HAQUE BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Except as contained in this notice, the name of S.R.Haque shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from S.R.Haque. Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) * Sam Stepanyan Sam Stepanyan created a set of Armenian sans serif glyphs visually compatible with Helvetica or Arial. Available on . On 2002-01-24, Sam writes: "Arial Armenian font is free for non-commercial use, so it is OK to use under GPL license." Armenian (U+0530-U+058F) * Mohamed Ishan Mohamed Ishan has started a Thaana Unicode Project and among other things created a couple of Thaana fonts, available under FDL or BDF license. Thaana (U+0780-U+07BF) * Sushant Kumar Dash (*) Sushant Dash has created a font in his mother tongue, Oriya. As he states on his web page : "Please feel free to foreword this mail to your Oriya friends. No copyright law is applied for this font. It is totally free!!! Feel free to modify this using any font editing tools. This is designed for people like me, who are away from Orissa and want to write letters home using Computers, but suffer due to unavailability of Oriya fonts.(Or the cost of the available packages are too much)." Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) * Harsh Kumar Harsh Kumar has started BharatBhasha - an effort to provide "FREE software, Tutorial, Source Codes etc. available for working in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Bangla. You can type text, write Web pages or develop Indian Languages Applications on Windows and on Linux. We also offer FREE help to users, enthusiasts and software developers for their work in Indian languages." Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F) Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) * Prasad A. Chodavarapu Prasad A. Chodavarapu created Tikkana, a Telugu font available in Type 1 and TrueType format on . Tikkana exceeds the Unicode Telugu range with some composite glyphs. Available under the GNU General Public License. Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F) * Frans Velthuis and Anshuman Pandey In 1991, Frans Velthuis from the Groningen University, The Netherlands, released a Devanagari font as Metafont source, available under the terms of GNU GPL. Later, Anshuman Pandey from the Washington University, Seattle, USA, took over the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found on CTAN, . I converted the font to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace program and removed some redundant control points with PfaEdit. Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) * Hardip Singh Pannu In 1991, Hardip Singh Pannu has created a free Gurmukhi TrueType font, available as regular, bold, oblique and bold oblique form. Its license says "Please remember that these fonts are copyrighted (by me) and are for non-profit use only." Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F) * Jeroen Hellingman Jeroen Hellingman created a set of Malayalam metafonts in 1994, and a set of Oriya metafonts in 1996. Malayalam fonts were created as uniform stroke only, while Oriya metafonts exist in both uniform and modulated stroke. From private communication: "It is my intention to release the fonts under GPL, but not all copies around have this notice on them." Metafonts can be found on CTAN, and . Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F) * Thomas Ridgeway <> (*) Thomas Ridgeway, then at the Humanities And Arts Computing Center, Washington University, Seattle, USA, (now defunct), created a Tamil metafont in 1990. Anshuman Pandey from the same university took over the maintenance of font. Fonts can be found at CTAN, . Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF) * Berhanu Beyene <1beyene AT informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, Prof. Dr. Manfred Kudlek , Olaf Kummer , and Jochen Metzinger Beyene, Kudlek, Kummer and Metzinger from the Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, prepared a set of Ethiopic metafonts, found on . They also maintain home page on the Ethiopic font project, , and can be reached at . The current version of fonts is 0.7 (1998), and they are released under GNU GPL. I converted the fonts to Type 1 format using Péter Szabó's TeXtrace-A program and removed some redundant control points with PfaEdit. Ethiopic (U+1200-U+137F) * Maxim Iorsh In 2002, Maxim Iorsh started the Culmus project, aiming at providing Hebrew-speaking Linux and Unix community with a basic collection of Hebrew fonts for X Windows. The fonts are visually compatible with URW++ Century Schoolbook L, URW++ Nimbus Sans L and URW++ Nimbus Mono L families, respectively, and are released under GNU GPL license. See also . Hebrew (U+0590-U+05FF) * Panayotis Katsaloulis Panayotis Katsaloulis helped fixing Greek accents in the Greek Extended area. Greek Extended (U+1F00-U+1FFF) * Vyacheslav Dikonov Vyacheslav Dikonov made a Braille unicode font that could be merged with the UCS fonts to fill the 2800-28FF range completely. (uniform scaling is possible to adapt it to any cell size). He also contributed a free syriac font, whose glyphs (about half of them) are borrowed from the "Carlo Ator" font freely downloadable from . Vyacheslav also filled in a few missing spots in the U+2000-U+27FF area, e.g. the box drawing section, sets of subscript and superscript digits and capital Roman numbers. Syriac (U+0700-U+074A) Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F) Braille (U+2800-U+28FF) * M.S. Sridhar M/S Cyberscape Multimedia Limited, Mumbai, developers of Akruti Software for Indian Languages (http://www.akruti.com/), have released a set of TTF fonts for nine Indian scripts (Devanagari, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Oriya, and Gurumukhi) under the GNU General Public License (GPL). You can download the fonts from the Free Software Foundation of India WWW site (http://www.gnu.org.in/akruti-fonts/) or from the Akruti website. For any further information or assistance regarding these fonts, please contact mssridhar AT vsnl.com. Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F) Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF) Telugu (U+0C00-U+0C7F) Kannada (U+0C80-U+0CFF) Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F) * DMS Electronics, The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, and Noah Levitt Noah Levitt found out that the Sinhalese fonts available on the site are released under GNU GPL, or, precisely, "Public Domain under GNU Licence Produced by DMS Electronics for The Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project" (taken from the font comment), and took the effort of recoding the font to Unicode. These glyphs were later replaced by those from the LKLUG font Finally the range was completely replaced by glyphs from the sinh TeX font, with much help and advice from Harshula Jayasuriya. Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF) * Daniel Shurovich Chirkov Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic glyphs needed for conformance to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X, . Cyrillic (U+0400-U+04FF) * Denis Jacquerye Denis Jacquerye added new glyphs and corrected existing ones in the Latin Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges. Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF) * K.H. Hussain and R. Chitrajan `Rachana' in Malayalam means `to write', `to create'. Rachana Akshara Vedi, a team of socially committed information technology professionals and philologists, has applied developments in computer technology and desktop publishing to resurrect the Malayalam language from the disorder, fragmentation and degeneration it had suffered since the attempt to adapt the Malayalam script for using with a regular mechanical typewriter, which took place in 1967-69. K.H. Hussein at the Kerala Forest Research Institute has released "Rachana Normal" fonts with approximately 900 glyphs required to typeset traditional Malayalam. R. Chitrajan apparently encoded the glyphs in the OpenType table. In 2008, the Malayalam ranges in FreeSerif were updated under the advise and supervision of Hiran Venugopalan of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, to reflect the revised edition Rachana_04. Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F) * Solaiman Karim Bengali (U+0980-U+09FF) Solaiman Karim has developed several OpenType Bangla fonts and released them under GNU GPL on . * Sonali Sonania and Monika Shah Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) Glyphs were drawn by Cyberscape Multimedia Ltd., #101,Mahalakshmi Mansion 21st Main 22nd "A" Cross Banashankari 2nd stage Banglore 560070, India. Converted to OTF by IndicTrans Team, Powai, Mumbai, lead by Prof. Jitendra Shah. Maintained by Monika Shah and Sonali Sonania of janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumbai. This font is released under GPL by Dr. Alka Irani and Prof Jitendra Shah, janabhaaratii Team, C-DAC, Mumabi. janabhaaratii is localisation project at C-DAC Mumbai (formerly National Centre for Software Technology); funded by TDIL, Govt. of India. Contact:monika_shah AT lycos.com, sonalisonania AT yahoo.com, jitendras AT vsnl.com, alka AT ncst.ernet.in. website: www.janabhaaratii.org.in. * Pravin Satpute , Bageshri Salvi , Rahul Bhalerao and Sandeep Shedmake Devanagari (U+0900-U+097F) Gujarati (U+0A80-U+0AFF) Oriya (U+0B00-U+0B7F) Malayalam (U+0D00-U+0D7F) Tamil (U+0B80-U+0BFF) In December 2005 the team at www.gnowledge.org released a set of two Unicode pan-Indic fonts: "Samyak" and "Samyak Sans". "Samyak" font belongs to serif style and is an original work of the team; "Samyak Sans" font belongs to sans serif style and is actually a compilation of already released Indic fonts (Gargi, Padma, Mukti, Utkal, Akruti and ThendralUni). Both fonts are based on Unicode standard. You can download the font files (released under GNU/GPL License) from http://www.gnowledge.org/Gnoware/localization/font.htm * Kulbir Singh Thind Gurmukhi (U+0A00-U+0A7F) Dr. Kulbir Singh Thind designed a set of Gurmukhi Unicode fonts, AnmolUni and AnmolUni-Bold, which are available under the terms of GNU Generel Public Licens from the Punjabu Computing Resource Center, http://guca.sourceforge.net/typography/fonts/anmoluni/. * Gia Shervashidze Georgian (U+10A0-U+10FF) Starting in mid-1990s, Gia Shervashidze designed many Unicode-compliant Georgian fonts: Times New Roman Georgian, Arial Georgian, Courier New Georgian. His work on Georgian localization can be reached at http://www.gia.ge/. * Primož Peterlin Primož Peterlin filled in missing glyphs here and there (e.g. Latin Extended-B and IPA Extensions ranges in the FreeMono familiy), and created the following UCS blocks: Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F) IPA Extensions (U+0250-U+02AF) Arrows (U+2190-U+21FF) Box Drawing (U+2500-U+257F) Block Elements (U+2580-U+259F) Geometrical Shapes (U+25A0-U+25FF) * Mark Williamson Made the MPH 2 Damase font, from which Hanunóo (U+1720-U+173F) Buginese (U+1A00-U+1A1F) Tai Le (U+1950-U+197F) Ugaritic (U+10380-U+1039F) Old Persian (U+103A0-U+103DF) * Jacob Poon Submitted a very thorough survey of glyph problems and other suggestions. * Alexey Kryukov Made the TemporaLCGUni fonts, based on the URW++ fonts, from which at one point FreeSerif Cyrillic, and some of the Greek, was drawn. He also provided valuable direction about Cyrillic and Greek typesetting. * George Douros The creator of several fonts focusing on ancient scripts and symbols. Many of the glyphs are created by making outlines from scanned images of ancient sources. Aegean: Phoenecian Analecta: Gothic (U+10330-U+1034F) Musical: Byzantine & Western Unicode: many Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Technical, supplemental Symbols, and Mathematical Alphanumeric symbols, Mah Jong, and the outline of the Domino. * Daniel Johnson Created by hand a Cherokee range specially for FreeFont to be "in line with the classic Cherokee typefaces used in 19th century printing", but also to fit well with ranges previously in FreeFont. Then he made Unified Canadian Syllabics in Sans, and a Cherokee and Kayah Li in Mono! And never to be outdone by himself, then did UCAS Extended and Osmanya.... What next? Armenian (serif) (U+0530-U+058F) Cherokee (U+13A0-U+13FF) Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (U+1400-U+167F) UCAS Extended (U+18B0-U+18F5) Kayah Li (U+A900-U+A92F) Tifinagh (U+2D30-U+2D7F) Vai (U+A500-U+A62B) Latin Extended-D (Mayanist letters) (U+A720-U+A7FF) Osmanya (U+10480-U+104a7) * Yannis Haralambous and Wellcome Institute In 1994, The Wellcome Library The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, England. commissioned Mr. Haralambous to produce a Sinhalese font for them. We have received 03/09 official notice from Robert Kiley, Head of e-Strategy for the Wellcome Library, that Yannis' font could be included in GNU FreeFont under its GNU license. Thanks to Dominik Wujastyk, for providing us with feedback and contacts to repsonsible people at the Trust. Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF) * The Sinhala font project http://sinhala.sourceforge.net/ The Sinhala font project has taken the glyphs from Yannis Haralambous' Sinhala font, to produce a Unicode TrueType font, LKLUG. These glyphs were for a while included in FreeFont. Sinhala (U+0D80-U+0DFF) * Steve White Filled in a lot of missing characters, got some font features working, left fingerprints almost everywhere, and is responsible for these blocks: Glagolitic (U+2C00-U+2C5F) Coptic (U+2C80-U+2CFF) * Pavel Skrylev is responsible for Cyrillic Extended-A (U+2DEO-U+2DFF) as well as many of the additions to Cyrillic Extended-B (U+A640-U+A65F) Notes: *: The glyph collection looks license-compatible, but its author has not yet replied and agreed on their work being used in part of this glyph collection. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- $Id: CREDITS,v 1.28 2010/09/11 13:24:11 Stevan_White Exp $