                   FONTLOG for the Deiphobus fonts

This file provides detailed information on the Deiphobus Font Software. This information should be distributed along with the Deiphobus fonts and any derivative works.


Basic Font Information

Deiphobus is an all caps geometric display typeface with bold blocky shapes. The initial design was for Latin script and has since been extended to Cyrillic, Greek, Tifinagh and N'Ko script.

This release supports:

- the Unicode blocks
  * Basic Latin,
  * Latin-1 Supplement,
  * Latin Extended-A,
  * N'Ko, and
  * Tifinagh;
- parts of various Latin and IPA Unicode blocks sufficient to cover:
  * The International African Alphabet,
  * The Pan-Nigerian alphabet, and
  * ISO 6438;
- parts of the Unicode block Cyrillic sufficient to cover the character sets:
  * ISO 8859-5 and
  * Windows-1251
- as well as the letters (but not all of the special characters) of the
  * KOI8-R and
  * KOI8-U character sets;
- parts of the Unicode block Greek and Coptic sufficient to cover the character sets:
  * ISO 8859-7 and
  * Windows-1253
- and various punctuation marks and letterlike symbols to cover the
  * ISO 8859-7,
  * Windows-1251,
  * Windows-1252 and
  * Windows-1253 character sets;
- as well as modifying and combining characters that are used as components for glyphs.


ChangeLog

 2026-01-11 (Frank Bruder)  Deiphobus Version 1.4
- slight redesign of shortened base glyphs for A and O umlaut
- added wide macron glyph and rules to use it on wide glyphs
- general mark-to-base and mark-to-mark positioning rules
- Latin extensions for Africa Alphabet and Pan-Nigerian alphabet
- localisation rules for variant glyph forms in Africa Alphabet
- Tifinagh glyphs, kerning, and RTL mirroring rules
- N'Ko glyphs, positioning rules, and positional alternate rules
- low paraphrase backets and Arabic punctuation marks that see use in N'Ko text

 2024-03-10 (Frank Bruder)  Deiphobus Version 1.3
- Greek glyphs and drachma sign (ISO 8859-7)
- several vowels with diacritics above changed to shortened base glyph
- Cyrillic letters E and Ukranian Ie edited to make them more clearly distinct from Ze and Ie
- letter L edited to make changing it into an E more difficult
- slightly changed letter M and trademark sign

 2023-09-24 (Frank Bruder)  Deiphobus Version 1.2
- Latin Extended-A glyphs and some related glyphs
- Cyrillic characters U+0400 to U+045F and ghe with upturn
- various punctuation marks and letterlike symbols (CP-1251 and CP-1252 character sets)
- four arrow characters
- locale-sensitive substitution of 'i' with dotless or dotted 'I'
- mark-to-base attachment positioning rules for top marks

 2023-08-20 (Frank Bruder)  Deiphobus Version 1.1
- Latin-1 Supplement glyphs and some related glyphs

 2023-08-13 (Frank Bruder)  Deiphobus Version 1.0
- Initial release
- US-ASCII glyphs


Acknowledgements

If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and description (D). This list is in alphabetical order.

N: Frank Bruder
E: frank@frabru.de
W: http://frabru.de/
D: Designer - Design guide and original glyphs
