Samaano Monospace Variable Multilingual Font

Samaano Latin Ǝẍŧëňđểð देवनागरी Ελληνικά

Samaano is a way to learn creation of a variable font using Open Source Tools like Fontforge, Fontra and some python script.

The Name Samaano comes fron the Hindi word Samaan , meaning equal indicating the spaces are equal in this font.

Samaano Sample Image

Following are some numbers associated with the of the typeface

0 - Zero Curves - Simple Glyph construction using Rectangular or quadrilateral components only
1 - Monospaced Typeface
3 - Three Variable axes of Weight, Width and Slant
3 - Three supported Scripts- Latin Extended, Devanagari, Monotonic Greek
9 - Font files, 8 Masters and 1 Variable
13 - supported glyphsets - 4 by Adobe (Greek 1, Latin 1,Latin 2, Latin 3), 7 by Google fonts (Greek core, Latin Kernel, Latin Core, Latin Plus, Latin Vietnamese, Latin PriAfrican), and 2 by Koeberlin (Latin S and M)
14 - named instances in stat table, 2 along slant axis, 5 along width, and 7 along weight.
70 - possible combinations of named instances
100 - Hundred percent created using Open Source Software - mainly Fontra and Fontforge.
554 - Languages supported as per Shaperglot, 537 Latin based,16 Devanagari Based and Monotonic Greek
1044 - unicode codepoints covered
9982 - glyphs drawn - considering all masters
1200000 - possible interpolatable instances considering only integer values in all axes (20 possible values along slant x 100 along width x 600 along weight axis ), and inumerable if decimals values are considered

Samaano Animation

Samaano Image

About

This font is created by Dr Anirban Mitra, an amateure Typographer and Free Software Enthusiast.

First Release

Added additional axis of Slant alongwith Width and Weight
Added support for East European Latin based Languages, Indic Translitteration, and Vietnamese
Updated Devanagari Open Type Tables to version 2 with addition of GPOS features

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ here