Samaano is a project to learn creation of a variable font using Open Source Tools like Fontforge, Fontra and some python script.
The Name Samaano comes fron the Sanskrit word Samaan , meaning equal, indicating the advance widths are equal in this font. .
Following are some numbers associated with the of the typeface
0 - Zero Curves - Simple Glyph construction using Rectangular or quadrilateral components only
1 - Monospaced Typeface
3 - Three Variable axes of Weight, Width and Slant
6 7 supported Scripts- Latin Extended, Devanagari, Greek, Tamil,Cyrillic,Orya, and Arabic.
19 20 - supported glyphsets - 8 by Adobe (Cyrrilic 1, Cyrrillic 2, Greek 1, Greek 2, Latin 1, Latin 2, Latin 3, Latin 4), 10 by Google fonts (Arabic Core, Cyrillic Core, Greek core, Latin Kernel, Latin Core, Latin Plus, Latin Vietnamese, Latin PriAfrican, Latin African, Phonetic SinoExtension), and 2 by Koeberlin (Latin S and M)
70 -possible instances in stat table, 2 along slant axis x 5 along width axis x 7 along weight axis
100 - Hundred percent created using Open Source Software - mainly Fontra and Fontforge.
898 954 - Languages supported as per Shaperglot, 869 Latin based,60 Cyrillic based, 16 Devanagari Based, 5 Arabic Based, 2 Greek based, Odiya and Tamil.
1852 1960 - unicode codepoints covered
16768 18904 - glyphs created - considering all masters
1.2 million - possible instances, if only integer values in each axis is considered (20 possible values along slant x 100 along width x 600 along weight axis ), and inumerable if decimals values are considered
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Samaano
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