Samaano Monospace Variable Multilingual Font

Samaano

Samaano is a way to learn creation of 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. Indic fonts are usually never made monospaced, but the designer will use his experience with developing MitraMono, the only monospaced Bengali font made way back in 2002.

Following are the Design specialities of the font

• Fully created using Open Source Software - mainly Fontra and Fontforge.

• Monospaced Font

• Three Variable axes of Weight, Width and Slant

• Simple Glyph construction using Rectangular or quadrilateral components only

About

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

Samano Variable Font testing pages

• FontBakery 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

Road Map for Version 3

• Addition of Greek, Cyrillic, Math, and Tamil

License

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