Veleka

Font Veleka is a part of the project LOCAL FONTS for development of free-to-use fonts with the modern Bulgarian letterform model in the the Cyrillic Unicode range. The project as a whole is based on well known fonts published under licenses which permit modifications and derivative works. The Veleka font family is based on Charis SIL, copyrighted by SIL International, 1997-2014 under SIL Open Font License (OFL). Although Charis SIL is intended to be a multilingual font, it has some limitations, which were the reason to create the Veleka font. The Veleka font family contains two models of Cyrillic glyphs. The base range of the Cyrillic glyphs (uni0410:uni044F) represents the modern Bulgarian letterform model. The international Cyrillic letterform model is included as a local feature for Russian language and as a Stylistic Set 01. In the future the project will be develop as a multilingual font for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts with a special attention to local features in OpenType.

What is new in Veleka (v.1.0)

• Support for Greek in the Unicode range uni0370:uni03CE.
• Two models of Cyrillic scripts for the range uni0410:uniuni044F (Bulgarian Cyrillic one and international Cyrillic one).
• Two ways to switch between the Bulgarian and international Cyrillic (either by using locl feature for Russin language, or by using Style Set 01 feature).
• Support for OpenType features: Latin All Caps (case + cpsp), Ligatures, Discretionary Ligatures, Fractions, Ordinals, Swash, Titling Alternates, Contextual Alternates, Small Caps, All Small Caps, Slashed Zero, Stylistic Set 01, Stylistic Set 02, Superscript/Superior, Subscript/Inferior, Numerator, Denominator, Proportional Oldstyle, Proportional Lining, Tabular Oldstyle, Tabular Lining, Default Figure Style.
• A lot of new glyphs in all the main Unicode ranges: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, IPA etc.
• Glyphs are rearranged according to Unicode 9.0.

Examples

See images and Gallery.

Acknowledgements

If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (if you have one) (E), web-address (if you have one) (W), twitter handle (if you have one) (T) and description (D).

Project Manager

• N: Stefan Peev
• E: context.bg@gmail.com
• W: https://localfonts.eu
• T: https://twitter.com/localfonts
• D: Project Manager and Designer

License

SIL Open Font License OFL

Local Fonts Project

• Coval
• Libra Sans
• Linguistics Pro
• Perun
• Pliska
• Veleka
• Common Sans
• Common Serif
• Repo

Donations

If you apreciate the project, please feel free to donate: PayPal.