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AUTHORS.md

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 # Authors
 
-* Santhosh Thottingal <[email protected]>
+* Santhosh Thottingal <[email protected]>
+
+---
+
+This is the official list of project authors for copyright purposes.
+This file is distinct from the CONTRIBUTORS.txt file.
+See the latter for an explanation.

CONTRIBUTORS.md

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 # Contributors
+
+* Name `<email address>`
+
+---
+
+This is the list of people who have contributed to this project,
+and includes those not listed in AUTHORS.txt because they are not
+copyright authors.
+
+Names should be added to this file as:
+Name `<email address>`

FONTLOG.md

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+# FONTLOG for Nupuram
+
+This file provides detailed information on the Nupuram font software. This
+information should be distributed along with the Nupuram fonts and any derivative
+works.
+
+## Basic Font Information
+
+Nupuram is a Malayalam typeface with regular, bold, thin variants. Nupuram means anklet. This is the third font after Chilanka and Manjari fonts by Santhosh Thottingal.
+
+Designer: Santhosh Thottingal
+
+Nupuram development is currently hosted at:
+http://gitlab.com/smc/fonts/Nupuram
+
+Released versions of this font is available at [smc.org.in/fonts](smc.org.in/fonts) for download. For old versions and detailed changelog, see https://gitlab.com/smc/fonts/Nupuram/-/releases. Feature requests, bug reports and patches should be directed to our issue
+tracker.
+
+## Acknowledgements
+
+(in no particular order)
+
+* [Donald Ervin Knuth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth) for inspiration, TeX, Metafont, for his detailed books on these topics.
+* John D. Hobby. [A METAFONT-like System with PostScript Output](http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb10-4/tb26hobby.pdf). TUGboat, 10(4), 1989.
+* [MetaType1](https://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/utilities/metatype1/), a font development system using MetaPost, by Bogusław Jackowski, Janus M. Nowacki, Piotr Strzelczyk. The metapost macros(`plain_ex.mp) from metatype1 package made this font feasible.
+* John D. Hobby. [METAPOST — A User’s Manual](http://www.tug.org/docs/metapost/mpman.pdf.), 2008.
+* Swathanthra Malayalam computing and its volunteers for all help and support.
+* [Latin letter construction](https://www.kellscraft.com/EssentialsofLettering/EssentialsofLetteringCh02.html)
+* [Of the Just Shaping of Letters  Author: Albrecht Dürer](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37103/37103-h/37103-h.htm)
+* [The Recursive project](https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/) from where I learned a lot on technical aspects and copied the documentation style.
+* [Wakamai Fondue](https://wakamaifondue.com) for variable font testing.
+* [Axis Praxis](https://axis-praxis.org/) for variable font testing.
+* [DJR's color font customizer](https://tools.djr.com/color-font-customizer/) for Color font testing
+* [DJR's Bungee font](https://github.com/djrrb/Bungee) font for studying the Color font gradient concepts
+* more to add...
+
+For a complete list of authors who contributed to the project, see CONTRIBUTORS.md