Gelasio

Gelasio is an original typeface which is metrics compatible with Georgia in its Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic weights. Medium, Medium Italic, SemiBold and SemiBold Italic have now been added as well but these don't have equivalents in Georgia.

Gelasio supports Google Fonts Latin Pro glyph set, enabling the typesetting of English, Western, Eastern and Southern European languages as well as Vietnamese and 130+ other languages.

Notes:

• This design will retain the purpose of being metrics compatible with Georgia in Regular and Bold weights while expanding somewhat past what Georgia can do in some areas such as having case sensitive punctuation and a few more numbers styles.

• However to remain a fuctional match to Georgia, Gelasio will not include kerning.

• The new Georgia found in Windows 10 ( in 2018 ) has some features and glyphs not present in Gelasio such as support for Greek and Cyrillic, Small caps for all three scripts and some additional symbols, and box drawing glyphs. Later I hope to make Gelsio fully equivalent in these ways as well.

• I also hope to make a font based on this work with a new name that is

• not metrics compatible with Georgia
• is a variable font
• has kerning
• is tuned to contemporary screen use rather than the relatively low resoution (72 dpi and 96 dpi) screens typical of mid-90s.

About

The project is being made by Eben Sorkin @ Sorkin Type Viviana Monsalve was also a contributor. To contribute ideas and feedback, see https://github.com/EbenSorkin/Gelasio

Languages

According to Hyperglot made by Rosetta Type Gelasio has base support for 344 of the 459 languages of Latin script. These include:

Arbëreshë Albanian, Eastern Abnaki, Afar, Arvanitika Albanian, Western Abnaki, Achinese, Achuar-Shiwiar, Acheron, Eastern Arrernte, Afrikaans, Aguaruna, Gheg Albanian, Tosk Albanian, Amahuaca, Yanesha', Amis, Amarakaeri, Uab Meto, Apinayé, Aragonese, Mapudungun, Karo, Asu (Tanzania), Asturian, Waorani, Anuta, Awetí, Southern Aymara, Central Aymara, South Azerbaijani, North Azerbaijani, Balinese, Batak Toba, Bemba (Zambia), Bena (Tanzania), Bari, Bikol, Bini, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Batak Dairi, Batak Mandailing, Batak Simalungun, Batak Karo, Garifuna, Kaqchikel, Catalan, Chachi, Chavacano, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Cashinahua, Candoshi-Shapra, Cebuano, Czech, Falam Chin, Chiga, Chamorro, Ojitlán Chinantec, Chuukese, Cimbrian, Chokwe, Central Kurdish, Hakha Chin, Asháninka, Montenegrin, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Caquinte, Pichis Ashéninka, Crimean Tatar, Seselwa Creole French, Chiltepec Chinantec, Kashubian, Tedim Chin, Welsh, Danish, Taita, German, Andaandi, Dongolawi, Dehu, Dimli, Lower Sorbian, Jola-Fonyi, Embu, Standard Estonian, English, Ese Ejja, Basque, Faroese, Nobiin, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Kven Finnish, French, Western Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz, Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo, West Central Oromo, Guadeloupean Creole French, Gilbertese, Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Galician, Manx, Gooniyandi, Ga’anda, Swiss German, Wayuu, Paraguayan Guaraní, Gusii, Gwichʼin, Hän, Eastern Oromo, Haitian, Hawaiian, Northern Qiandong Miao, Hiligaynon, Southern Qiandong Miao, Hani, Caribbean Hindustani, Hopi, Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Hungarian, Huastec, Ibibio, Igbo, Iloko, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Jamaican Creole English, Javanese, Shuar, Japanese, Kara-Kalpak, Kalaallisut, Kamba (Kenya), Makonde, Kabuverdianu, Kekchí, Kaingang, Khasi, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Kirmanjki, Kalenjin, Kimbundu, Northern Kurdish, Kongo, Konzo, Kaonde, Karelian, Shambala, Kölsch, Kituba (DRC), Kuanyama, Ladino, Latin, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Lakota, Ladin, Lombard, Otuho, Lozi, Latgalian, Luxembourgish, Luba-Lulua, Ganda, Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Mizo, Standard Latvian, Madurese, Marshallese, Mam, Matsés, Meru, Mauritian Creole, Makhuwa-Meetto, Minangkabau, Mískito, Malagasy, Maltese, Montagnais, Mohawk, South Marquesan, Maori, North Marquesan, Totontepec Mixe, Creek, Murrinh-Patha, Mirandese, Kala Lagaw Ya, Ixcatlán Mazatec, Naga Pidgin, Neapolitan, Navajo, South Ndebele, North Ndebele, Ndonga, Low German, Central Nahuatl, Niuean, Ao Naga, Dutch, Norwegian, Nomatsiguenga, Pedi, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Orma, Oroqen, Mezquital Otomi, Pampanga, Papiamento, Palauan, Páez, Picard, Pijin, Pintupi-Luritja, Paluan, Piemontese, Polish, Pohnpeian, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Upper Guinea Crioulo, Pipil, Ashéninka Perené, K'iche', Quechua, Cook Islands Māori, Balkan Romani, Vlax Romani, Romansh, Romanian, Rotokas, Rundi, Istro Romanian, Macedo-Romanian, Rwa, Sango, Samburu, Sangu (Tanzania), Sicilian, Sena, Seri, Secoya, Shipibo-Conibo, Pite Sami, Ume Sami, Shawnee, Slovak, Slovenian, Southern Sami, Northern Sami, Lule Sami, Inari Sami, Samoan, Shona, Soninke, Somali, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sardinian, Saramaccan, Sranan Tongo, Swati, Sundanese, Maore Comorian, Congo Swahili, Swedish, Swahili, Silesian, Tahitian, Atayal, Tetun Dili, Teso, Tetum, Tagalog, Tiv, Tokelau, Tsakhur, Talysh, Toba, Tonga (Zambia), Tojolabal, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Papantla Totonac, Tok Pisin, Tswana, Tsonga, Purepecha, Muslim Tat, Turkmen, Tumbuka, Turkish, Tuvalu, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Meriam Mir, Umbundu, Munsee, Northern Uzbek, Venetian, Venda, Veps, Vietnamese, Makhuwa, Võro, Walser, Waray (Philippines), Warlpiri, Wik-Mungkan, Ho-Chunk, Walloon, Wallisian, Mwani, Wolof, Wiradjuri, Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa, Xavánte, Xhosa, Kenzi, Mattokki, Soga, Yao, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Makwe, Yoruba, Yucateco, Zapotec, Ngazidja Comorian, Malaysian, Záparo, Standard Malay, Zulu, Zuni

Building

Fonts are built automatically by GitHub Actions - take a look in the "Actions" tab for the latest build.

If you want to build fonts manually on your own computer:

• make build will produce font files.
• make test will run FontBakery's quality assurance tests.
• make proof will generate HTML proof files.

The proof files and QA tests are also available automatically via GitHub Actions - look at https://SorkinType.github.io/Gelasio.

Changelog

When you update your font (new version or new release), please report all notable changes here, with a date. Font Versioning is based on semver. Changelog example:

10 May 2022. Version 1.007

• MAJOR Font turned to a variable font.
• SIGNIFICANT New Language support.

License

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at https://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Repository Layout

This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3, modified for the Google Fonts workflow.