Tac

Tac is a single-weight, bold San serif inspired by the wordmark of one of the most significant festivals in Africa's post-colonial history, Festac '77. It's a partial revival that expands upon the six lowercase letters, single quotes and number 7 in the wordmark, resulting in a full Google SSA character set. Tac is the second project from Afrotype.

About

Afrotype, founded by Seyi Olusanya, intends to subvert cliches around African graphic design by creating typefaces grounded in African history and culture. David Udoh and Eyiyemi Adegbite collaborated on the design and drawing work. Tac was produced with Mirko Velimirović, who provided technical, drawing, and font engineering assistance.

Building

Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.

If you want to build fonts manually on your own computer:

• make build will produce font files.
• make test will run FontBakery's quality assurance tests.
• make proof will generate HTML proof files.

The proof files and QA tests are also available automatically via GitHub Actions - look at https://Afrotype.github.io/festacrevival.

Changelog

When you update your font (new version or new release), please report all notable changes here, with a date. Font Versioning is based on semver. Changelog example:

26 May 2021. Version 2.13

• MAJOR Font turned to a variable font.
• SIGNIFICANT New Stylistic sets added.

License

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Repository Layout

This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3, modified for the Google Fonts workflow.