Samaano Monospace Variable Multilingual Font

Samaano Latin Ǝẍŧëňđểð देवनागरी Ελληνικά தமிழ் Кириллица

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.

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
• 4 5 supported Scripts- Latin Extended, Devanagari, Greek,Tamil, and Cyrillic
• 9 - Font files, 8 Masters and 1 Variable
• 14 - named instances in stat table, 2 along slant axis, 5 along width, and 7 along weight.
• 16 18 - supported glyphsets - 7 by Adobe (Greek 1, Greek 2, Latin 1,Latin 2, Latin 3, Latin 4, Cyrillic 1), 9 by Google fonts (Greek core, Latin Kernel, Latin Core, Latin Plus, Latin Vietnamese, Latin PriAfrican, Latin African, Phontic SinoExtension, Cyrrilic Core), and 2 by Koeberlin (Latin S and M)
• 1921 - opentype layout features (abvs, akhn, blwf, blws, ccmp, dlig, frac, half, haln, locl, nukt, ordn, pres, psts, rkrf, rphf, sinf, sups, abvm, blwm and mark)
• 70 - possible combinations of named instances
• 100 - Hundred percent created using Open Source Software - mainly Fontra and Fontforge.
• 814 844 - Languages supported as per Shaperglot, 798 Latin based, 2 Greek based, 28 Cyrillic based, 16 Devanagari Based, and Tamil
• 1527 1644 - unicode codepoints covered
• 13684 14952 glyphs made - considering all masters
• 1.2 million - 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

About

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

Samano Variable Font testing pages

• Fontspector Report
• Diffenator2 Report

Changelog

10 October 2024 - Version 1.000

First Release

13 November 2024 - Version 2.000

• 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

20th March 2025 - Version 2.302

• Addition of Monotonic Greek
• Extension of Latin to include PanNigerian, Pinyin and DIN91379
• Addition of Arrows, Geometric shapes and Mathametical Operators

July 2025 - Version 2.400

• Extension of Latin to include most African languages
• Extension of Greek to include polytonic greek
• Addition of Tamil

October 2025 - Version 2.500

• Addition of Cyrillic
• Bug fixing in Latin

Road Map for Version 3

• Addition of Odia
• Extension of Latin

License

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