Junicode version 2.200

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Junicode 2.200 features miscellaneous fixes and additions, and it also inaugurates a long-term program of adding glyphs for the benefit of the Ansund HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) project, which is developing tools for the automated reading of medieval manuscripts. Of the additions made so far, the ones likely to be of greatest interest to users are two series of medieval capitals, available via features ss11[1] and ss11[2]. The first series consists of rustic capitals, often used for text in late ancient and early medieval times and for rubrics (headings) in the central Middle Ages. The second consists of Lombardic capitals, used in the central and later Middle Ages for what are now called drop caps. These capitals are designed to harmonize with Junicode to the greatest degree possible while remaining faithful to the medieval sources.

Junicode version 2.100

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Version 2.100 features a thorough reworking of the font's number system. The default numbers are now oldstyle (or "lowercase") proportional, and the metrics, kerning, and often the outlines of the number glyphs have been refined, along with those of glyphs typically associated with numbers (e.g. currency symbols). An alternate, more modern style of some oldstyle numbers has been supplied and made available via Stylistic Set 9 (ss09).

Junicode version 2.004

Junicode 2 is a major reworking of the widely used font for students and scholars of medieval Europe (though it also serves scholars in a number of other disciplines). This version continues to track the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is now an extended font family, with five weights (Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold) and five widths (Condensed, SemiCondensed, Regular, SemiExpanded, and Expanded). This makes for a large number of font files (19 each for roman and italic, omitting a few unsuitable styles), but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

This release includes (mainly in the italic face) revisions of metrics and kerning of numbers and of kerning around parentheses and brackets. It also fixes some spacing problems (in the roman face) with capitals in parentheses (U+1F110-U+1F129) and a few problems with disordered or wrong components.

Junicode version 2.003

Junicode 2 is a major reworking of the widely used font for students and scholars of medieval Europe (though it also serves scholars in a number of other disciplines). This version continues to track the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is now an extended font family, with five weights (Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold) and five widths (Condensed, SemiCondensed, Regular, SemiExpanded, and Expanded). This makes for a large number of font files (19 each for roman and italic, omitting a few unsuitable styles), but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

This is mostly a bug-fix version. It (1) fixes several non-functioning tag sequences; (2) fixes an incompatibility with InDesign that caused OpenType features to misbehave in that program; (3) improved several outlines and adjusted badly positioned anchors.

Junicode version 2.002

Junicode 2 is a major reworking of the widely used font for students and scholars of medieval Europe (though it also serves scholars in a number of other disciplines). This version continues to track the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is now an extended font family, with five weights (Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold) and five widths (Condensed, SemiCondensed, Regular, SemiExpanded, and Expanded). This makes for a large number of font files (19 each for roman and italic, omitting a few unsuitable styles), but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Version 2.002 adds U+0243 B with stroke (with small cap and petite cap variants) and variants of U+014A Eng (with small cap and petite cap variants). It also adds many anchors and refines and corrects many outlines (especially in roman).

Junicode version 2.001

Junicode 2 is a major reworking of the widely used font for students and scholars of medieval Europe (though it also serves scholars in a number of other disciplines). This version continues to track the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is now an extended font family, with five weights (Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold) and five widths (Condensed, SemiCondensed, Regular, SemiExpanded, and Expanded). This makes for a large number of font files (19 each for roman and italic, omitting a few unsuitable styles), but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

This release also includes compressed WOFF2 versions of the variable fonts for use in web pages. These are much quicker to download than static fonts, and they are supported by all major browsers.

Version 2.001 fixes an error in the code pages array that caused serious errors in MS Word, along with another, more minor bug. These bug fixes enable the addition of a CFF (.otf) version to the release archive. The version also adds a couple of phonetic characters.

Junicode version 2.000

Junicode 2.000 is a major reworking of the widely used font for students and scholars of medieval Europe (though it also serves scholars in a number of other disciplines). This version continues to track the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is now an extended font family, with five weights (Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold) and five widths (Condensed, SemiCondensed, Regular, SemiExpanded, and Expanded). This makes for a large number of font files (19 each for roman and italic, omitting a few unsuitable styles), but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

This release also includes compressed WOFF2 versions of the variable fonts for use in web pages. These are much quicker to download than static fonts, and they are supported by all major browsers.

Junicode v1.003

This is version 1.003 of Junicode, incorporating several improvements and bug fixes.