FjallaOne

Fjalla is a medium contrast display sans serif. Fjalla has been carefully adjusted to the restrictions of the screen. Despite having display characteristics Fjalla can be used in a wide range of sizes.

About

Sorkin Type makes retail and Libre fonts.

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://EbenSorkin.github.io/FjallaOne.

ChangeLog

27 Oct 2012 (Eben Sorkin) Fjalla v1.000

• Mastered VBF to TTF and other formats.
• hinted font Using TTFAutohint version 0.92

25 Oct 2012 (Irina Smirnova) Fjalla v1.000

• Completed first complete version of Fjalla in Fontlab ( VBF format )

28 July 2017 (eben Sorkin) v 1.001

• increased the glyphs to support addiional languages
• The diacritics are now sourced from unicode 0300 series codepoints with zero width instead of the previous default 0200 codepoints.
• Legacy diacritics (0200 codepoints) remain with some left and right spacing in case they need to be referenced in text.
• Vertical metrics have ben made consistent with current Google practice to avoid clipping.
• OpenType naming tables are added and have NID 16 & 17 entries so that Font Menus in Adobe apps say Fjalla with a style of "One"

2 March 2023 (Eben Sorkin and Emma Marichal) V1.002

• kerning added and completed
• language supported improved

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: Emma Marichal E: bonjour@emmamarichal.fr W: emmamarichal.fr D: Mastering

N: Irina Smirnova E: irina.v.sm@gmail.com D: Designer

N: Eben Sorkin E: sorkineben@gmail.com W: www.sorkintype.com D: Mastering & Design

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.