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
5 6 supported Scripts- Latin Extended, Devanagari, Greek,Tamil,Cyrillic and Orya
18 19 - supported glyphsets - 8 by Adobe (Cyrillic 1, Cyrillic 2, Greek 1, Greek 2, Latin 1,Latin 2, Latin 3, Latin 4, ), 9 by Google fonts (Greek core, Latin Kernel, Latin Core, Latin Plus, Latin Vietnamese, Latin PriAfrican, Latin African, Phontic SinoExtension, Cyrrilic Core), and 2 by Koeberlin (Latin S and M)
22 - opentype layout features (abvs, akhn, blwf, blws, ccmp, dlig, frac, half, haln, locl, nukt, ordn, pres, psts, rkrf, rphf, sinf, sups, abvm, blwm and mark)
70 - named instances
100 - Hundred percent created using Open Source Software - mainly Fontra and Fontforge.
844 898 - Languages supported as per Shaperglot, 823 Latin based, 2 Greek based, 61 Cyrillic based, 16 Devanagari Based languages, Tamil and Odia
1644 1852 - unicode codepoints covered
14952 16768 glyphs made - considering all masters
1.2 million - possible interpolatable instances considering only integer values in all axes (20 possible values along slant x 100 along width x 600 along weight axis ), and inumerable if decimals values are considered
First Release
Added additional axis of Slant alongwith Width and Weight
Added support for East European Latin based Languages, Indic Translitteration, and Vietnamese
Updated Devanagari Open Type Tables to version 2 with addition of GPOS features
Addition of Monotonic Greek
Extension of Latin to include PanNigerian, Pinyin and DIN91379
Addition of Arrows, Geometric shapes and Mathametical Operators
Extension of Latin to include most African languages
Extension of Greek to include polytonic greek
Addition of Tamil
Addition of Cyrillic
Bug fixing in Latin
Addition of Scientific Inferior and Horizontal Fraction Feauture
Addition of Odia
Further extension of Cyrillic.
Addition of Arabic
Further Extension of Latin and Cyrillic
Download Samaano family of fontslatest Version 2.600