Add supporting fonts for fontforge/fontforge#4668

fontforge · Apr 14, 2021 · 8dda4c6 · 8dda4c6
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diff --git a/AVAKerBol.bin b/AVAKerBol.bin
diff --git a/AVAKerBolIta.bin b/AVAKerBolIta.bin
diff --git a/AVAKerIta.bin b/AVAKerIta.bin
diff --git a/AVAKerReg.bin b/AVAKerReg.bin
diff --git a/AVAKern.bin b/AVAKern.bin
diff --git a/AVAKern.txt b/AVAKern.txt
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+Associated with FontForge bug #4668:
+ https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/4668
+
+This is a sample Mac Type 1 font suitcase with its associated outline
+files, for a font family named AVAKern with four styles: Regular,
+Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. AVAKern.bin is the font suitcase itself.
+AVAKerReg.bin, AVAKerIta.bin, AVAKerBol.bin and AVAKerBolIta.bin are
+the associated outline files.
+
+The font suitcase contains, among other data, kerning info for the
+associated outline files. Particularly, it has very obvious negative
+kerning for the following pairs in all four styles: AV, VA, av and va.
+
+In order to open the outlines in FontForge’s GUI and retain the kerning
+info, one needs to first open an outline file and then go to menu File
+> Merge Feature Info > AVAKern.bin.
+
+The fonts were generated with FontLab 5 Studio Demo, which heavily
+restricts the number of glyphs. Therefore, all four styles only have
+characters A-C, S-X, all in the shape of upper case. The outlines were
+copied from Source Sans (and then Fontlab watermarked some).
+
+All five files were MacBin-encoded so that they survive in non-Mac
+filesystems. AFAIK, FontForge can still transparently load them without
+any intermediate decoding.