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weiweihuanghuang / Work-Sans

A grotesque sans.
http://weiweihuanghuang.github.io/Work-Sans/
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Inclusion of cased glottal stop #65

Closed ind-nt closed 3 years ago

ind-nt commented 3 years ago

Hi Wei,

Very nice Work! I'm particularly impressed by this projects support for Indigenous rights in Australia.

I had a request from the Northwest Territories -- the font with its proper implementation of combining diacritics works really well with the Indigenous languages here. Only one character is missing -- the cased glottal stops at 0241 and 0242. If they are included, I would wholeheartedly recommend that this font be adopted as a standard here.

I can fork them myself and edit them in, but it would make more sense if this was part of the main project.

Thanks!

weiweihuanghuang commented 3 years ago

I will add it to the project! I need to review another large fork before I can do this one so perhaps you can edit it in for your immediate use if it's urgent.

weiweihuanghuang commented 3 years ago

OK It's been added to this repo but not pushed to google fonts yet. Just for reference do you have any example of sample texts with the glottal stop?

ind-nt commented 3 years ago

Hi,

Here’s one example of the capital version: https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/nt/saoyuehdacho

The small/lowercase is found in Chipewyan, Tłı̨chǫ, and Dene (Slavey) words like gokʼehɂe (coat), ɂadzęzah (moon), ɂah (snowshoe).

The cased forms were included in Windows systems fonts such as Calibri, Cambria, Arial, and Times New Roman.

Thanks so much!

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 12:05 AM Wei H @.***> wrote:

Ok actually I'll add it today, do you have any example of sample texts with the glottal stop?

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ind-nt commented 3 years ago

Hi Wei,

That's awesome, and I see you rolled it to all font weights. I was checking the font and just realized that for North Slavey (Great Bear Lake language), the turned E at 018E (Ǝ) and its associated lowercase form at 01DD (ǝ) are also needed (each one should also be able to have an acute combining diacritic).

Example words include bǝbí (baby), ehkǝ (boy), and Gokǝdǝ́ (language).

Thankfully these can be made by mirroring and rotating the regular E and e. That's it, and you'll have the Northwest Territories covered.

Thanks again,

weiweihuanghuang commented 3 years ago

Added

ind-nt commented 3 years ago

Thanks Wei! The font is really great for display purposes.