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FONTLOG for News Cycle
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This file provides detailed information on the News Cycle Font Software.
This information should be distributed along with the News Cycle fonts
and any derivative works.
Basic Font Information
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News Cycle is a realist, sans-serif typeface based primarily on a revival of the
1908 News Gothic face by American Type Founders (ATF).
The package currently contains the Regular and Bold weights.
ChangeLog
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26 Mar 2012 (Nathan Willis)
- Merged iKern kerning for Bold Latin.
- Generating a 0.5 release which includes Bold Latin.
08 Feb 2012 (Nathan Willis)
- Bold letterspacing done for Basic Latin.
- Tweaked w, W, M
- subsetting Bold to make 0.5 release, which will contain a Latin-1-only Bold, with extended Latin, Greek and Cyrillic to follow in 0.6.
21 Dec 2011 (Nathan Willis)
- Bold glyphs generally completed for Basic Latin.
- Metrics have NOT yet been adjusted for Bold.
07 Dec 2011 (Nathan Willis)
- branching for 0.4 release
- cloned initial Bold from News Cycle Regular
03 Oct 2011 (Nathan Willis)
- finished Greek, Coptic, Math glyphs
- regularized metrics
- exported gigantic namelist
25 Jul 2011 (Nathan Willis)
- finished Cyrillic glyphs
- began working on remaining basic mathematical glyphs
04 Jul 2011 (Nathan Willis)
- basic Cyrillic added, upper and lower case
- started archaic & extended Cyrillic
- cleanup of existing mathematical symbols (stroke & vertical alignment)
- added a few additional mathematical symbols
- added a few Greek glyphs
07 Apr 2011 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.2
- cleanup completed
- vertical metrics fixed
- reserved font name corrected in metadata
- auto-hinting and auto-instructing by FF
28 Jan 2011 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.9
- doing cleanup for first supported public release
- added Latin Extended B glyphs (except those using hook or loop).
- added wynn, kra, Latin long s, some miscellaneous math
- added ff, fi, ffl, ffi ligatures
- adjusted stroke width on ordinals, ring, copyright, reserved, trademark, @, and other misc letterlike symbols
17 Jan 2011 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.8
- added more Latin Extended B glyphs, Greek and Cyrillic duplicate glyphs.
- cleanup on spacing and accents for Eastern European languages and non-alphabetic characters.
02 Oct 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.7 - added several European and African glyphs, regularized all curved baselines & heights; basic spacing complete.
03 Sep 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.6
- added punctuation, Icelandic glyphs.
01 Sep 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.5
- tentatively happy with basic glyph outlines, working on metrics.
20 Aug 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.3
- Finished basic Latin alphabet import.
04 Aug 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version .002
- Changed name to News Cycle.
- Added most of Latin alphabet characters and some punctuation. Missing are specimens of (4 J Z b c j q w x) and several punctuation marks.
02 Jul 2010 (Nathan Willis) Newsworthy Version .001
- Initial release of font "Newsworthy" with the characters (a d h e s i o n H O R X M Q 3 5 6)
traced from the out-of-copyright ATF 1912 specimen of News Gothic.
- Outlines created in Inkscape.
- Initial metrics auto-generated by FontForge, with additional tweaks added by hand.
Acknowledgements
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N: Nathan Willis
E: nwillis@glyphography.com
W: http://www.freesoftwhere.org
D: Instigator - glyphs and code
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