[Pkg-fonts-bugs] ITP: fonts-sil-andika-compact

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas.spalinger at sil.org>

* Package name    : fonts-sil-andika-compact
  Version         : 1.000
  Upstream Author : Upstream Author: Victor Gaultney, Annie Olsen, Julie
Remington, Eric Hays, Don Collingsworth, SIL font engineers - SIL
International.
* URL             : http://scripts.sil.org/Andika
* License         : Open Font License 1.1
  Description     : extended smart Unicode Latin/Greek font family for
literacy (Compact version)


Description:

Andika ("Write!" in Swahili) is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font
designed especially for literacy use, taking into account the needs of
beginning readers. The focus is on clear, easy-to-perceive letterforms
that will not be easily confused with one another.

A sans serif font is preferred by some literacy personnel for teaching
people to read. Its forms are simpler and less cluttered than some serif
fonts can be. For years, literacy workers have had to make do with fonts
that were available but not really suitable for beginning readers and
writers. In some cases, literacy specialists have had to tediously
cobble together letters from a variety of fonts in order to get the all
of characters they need for their particular language project, resulting
in confusing and unattractive publications. Andika addresses those issues.

After receiving many insightful comments on the Design Review and Basic
fonts, Andika's final letterforms have been refined with alternate
shapes still available for some characters. This font now contains the
same character set as Charis SIL and Doulos SIL.

It provides OpenType and Graphite features like smart code for diacritic
placement. It supports recent additions to Unicode and the SIL PUA, and
character assignments are updated to conform to Unicode 5.1

This is the compact version to allow more flexibility with diacritics.