Three levels of glyph sets were developed in June 2016 as a new baseline standard for fonts in the Google Fonts library. Exising fonts in the library can be upgraded to these as part of a drive towards new quality standards. All new fonts submitted to the library must now support the Plus level as a minumum requirement.
Three sets are available in this directory: Plus, Pro and Expert.
Inside [filter lists](./filter\ lists) are text files with a list of glyphs for each set. Open Glyphs and in the left bottom sidebar, create a new list filter, and paste the contents of these TXT files to check if your fonts supports these characters. A ✓ will indicate you are all set. Otherwise ctrl + click on the numbers to generate missing glyphs.
N.B. If you get an error while creating new glyphs, select all glyphs in your font, from the top menu choose Glyph -> Update Glyph Info. Try again. If updating Glyph Info didn't work make sure [ ] Use custom naming is unckecked in Font Info > Other Settings.
See TROUBLESHOOTING.md for more details.
Structure and Hierarchy of Glyph Sets for Latin:
- Core A Basic Latin set for Western Europe
- Plus For all fonts in the library, an Extended Latin with wide language support (Central and Eastern European languages and Vietnamese)
- Pro For casual and headline fonts that need a little more typographic sophistication, an extra 171 glyphs
- Expert For text and workhorse typefaces that must supply everything typographers need, such as small caps, an additional 300 glyphs
| Glyph Set | Drawn | Composite | Either/Or | From Core | From Core contingency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | 150 | 70 | |||
| Plus | 215 | 360 | 19 | 65 | 19 |
| Pro | 26 | 116 | 4 | 23 | 23 |
| Expert | 62 | 207 | 4 | 153 | 27 |
| Total | 303 | 683 | 27 |
- Western & Central European
- Vietnamese
- Currencies (₡ ₣ ₤ ₦ ₧ ₩ ₫ ₭ ₱ ₲ ₵ ₹ ₺ ₼ ₽)
- Alternate Numerals: Proportonal Lining
Includes characters from the following unicode ranges:
- Latin-1
- Latin Extended A
- Latin Extended B
- Latin Extended Additional
- Latin-1 Supplement
Optional additions:
- Uppercase Accents, 25
- Slashed zero (zero.zero)
To quickly create base glyphs for lining figures, press Cmd + G, and paste in this code:
| Type | Paste this code |
|---|---|
| Lining Figures | zero=zero.lf one=one.lf two=two.lf three=three.lf four=four.lf five=five.lf six=six.lf seven=seven.lf eight=eight.lf nine=nine.lf |
See tutorials/README.md for more details
In case your IJ diagraph is really ligated, or has a special form (like shortened I) you will need to add these glyphs: I_J.loclNLD i_j.loclNLD Iacute_J.loclNLD iacute_j.loclNLD. Glyphs (versions 2.3.1 or later) will automate the OT code. If your font includes small caps, make sure to add .sc glyphs too.
Read more about this in the GlyphsApp Ligated Dutch IJ Tutorial
Language support for the following Latin-based languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Onĕipŏt, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami (Inari Sami), Sami (Lule Sami), Sami (Northern Sami), Sami (Southern Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni
- Math symbols and Units of Measure (∆ Ω π ℓ ℮ ∞ ∂ ∫ √ ∑ ∏ ◊ ∅)
- Latin General Use Extensions (U+1E08 to U+1EC9)
- Superiors and Inferiors (⁰ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ₀ ₁ ₂ ₃ ₄ ₅ ₆ ₇ ₈ ₉)
- Scientific Inferiors as ".subs" (₀ ₁ ₂ ₃ ₄ ₅ ₆ ₇ ₈ ₉)
- Spacing Modifier Letters (ʻ ʼ ʾ ʿ ˈ ˊ ˋ ˌ)
- Typographic Spaces (figure, punctuation, thin, hair, zero-width)
- Additional General Punctuation (‐ ‒ ― ′ ″)
- Alternate Punctuation Glyphs for Capitals
- Numerators and Denominators
Instructions for OT code in the GF Latin Pro set using unencoded glyphs:
| feature name | created | sub one by ... |
|---|---|---|
.sups |
auto | one.sups |
.subs |
auto | one.subs |
.sinf |
manually | one.subs |
- Case Punctuation
.case
- Additional Unicode Fractions (⅓ ⅔ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞)
- Arrows (← ↑ → ↓)
- Geometric Shapes (■ □ ▲ △ ▶ ▷ ▼ ▽ ◀ ◁ ◆ ◇)
- Small Capitals
- Discretionary Ligatures (T_h c_t c_h s_t)
Structure and Hierarchy of Glyph Sets for Cyrillic:
- Core is the existing default set, a Basic Cyrillic
- Plus includes added language coverage for Slavic, Non-Slavic, and Uralic languages
- Pro for Headline typefaces, with language support more Non-Slavic languages
- Expert for text and workhorse typefaces, includes Small Caps
- Historic with support for historic Cyrillic
Supports the following Cyrillic languages: Balkar, Belarusian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Cyrillic), Bulgarian, Croatian (Cyrillic), Erzya, Karachay, Kumyk, Macedonian, Moksha, Montenigrin, Nanai, Nogai, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian (Cyrillic), Ukrainian, West Polesian
Supports the following 90 Cyrillic languages: Abaza, Adyghe, Agul, Akhvakh, Altay, Andi, Archi, Avar, Azerbaijani (Cyrillic), Bagvalal Balkar, Bashkir, Belarusian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Cyrillic), Botlikh, Budukh, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chamalal, Chechen, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic), Croatian (Cyrillic), Dargwa/Dargin, Dungan, Erzya, Gagauz (Cyrillic), Godoberi, Hinukh, Hunzib, Ingush, Juhuri/çuhuri (Cyrillic), Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Karaim (Cyrillic), Karakalpak (Cyrillic), Karata, Kazakh, Ket (Cyrillic), Khakas (Cyrillic), Khinalugh, Komi, Krymchak, Kryts, Kubachi, Kumyk, Kurdish (Cyrillic), Kurdish (Cyrillic), Kyrgyz (Cyrillic), Lak, Lezgian, Lingua Franca Nova (Cyrillic), Macedonian, Mari (Hill and Meadow), Moksha, Moldovan (Cyrillic), Mongolian (Cyrillic), Montenigrin (Cyrillic), Nanai, Nogai, Ossetian, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Serbian (Cyrillic), Shor, Slovio, Tabassaran, Tajik, Talysh (Cyrillic), Tat, Tatar, Tindi, Tofa, Tsakhur (Cyrillic), Tsez, Turkmen, Tuvan/Tuvinian, Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Urum, Uyghur (Cyrillic), Uzbek (Cyrillic), Votik (Cyrillic), Wakhi (Cyrillic), West Polesian, Yaghnobi (Cyrillic), Yukaghir (Northern and Southern).
Includes currencies: ₮, ₴, ₸.
The ruble sign (₽ U+20BD) is not included, since it is already present in the Latin Plus set.
Additional characters in this set provide support for the following 18 languages: Abkhaz, Chukchi, Enets, Eskimo, Even, Evenki, Itelmen, Khanty, Kildin Sami, Koryak, Mansi, Nganasan, Nenets, Oroch, Orok, Sakha/Yakut, Tati, Yukaghir, Yupik Ulch,
Full list of supported 110 Cyrillic languages: Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Agul, Akhvakh, Altay, Andi, Archi, Avar, Azerbaijani (Cyrillic), Bagvalal Balkar, Bashkir, Belarusian (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Cyrillic), Botlikh, Budukh, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chamalal, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar (Cyrillic), Croatian (Cyrillic), Dargwa/Dargin, Dungan, Enets, Erzya, Eskimo, Even, Evenki, Gagauz (Cyrillic), Godoberi, Hinukh, Hunzib, Ingush, Itelmen, Juhuri/çuhuri (Cyrillic), Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Karaim (Cyrillic), Karakalpak (Cyrillic), Karata, Kazakh, Ket (Cyrillic), Khakas (Cyrillic), Khanty, Khinalugh, Kildin Sami, Komi, Koryak, Krymchak, Kryts, Kubachi, Kumyk, Kurdish (Cyrillic), Kurdish (Cyrillic), Kyrgyz (Cyrillic), Lak, Lezgian, Lingua Franca Nova (Cyrillic), Macedonian, Mansi, Mari (Hill and Meadow), Moksha, Moldovan (Cyrillic), Mongolian (Cyrillic), Montenigrin (Cyrillic), Nanai, Nenets, Nganasan, Nogai, Oroch, Orok, Ossetian, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Sakha/Yakut, Serbian (Cyrillic), Shor, Slovio, Tabassaran, Tajik, Talysh (Cyrillic), Tat, Tatar, Tati, Tindi, Tofa, Tsakhur (Cyrillic), Tsez, Turkmen, Tuvan/Tuvinian, Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Ulch, Urum, Uyghur (Cyrillic), Uzbek (Cyrillic), Votik (Cyrillic), Wakhi (Cyrillic), West Polesian, Yaghnobi (Cyrillic), Yukaghir (Northern and Southern), Yukaghir, Yupik.
Provides support for Pre-Petrine Old Church Slavonic Texts.
See RECOMMENDED.md
GF Glyph Sets defined by Alexei Vanyashin (@alexeiva) and Kalapi Gajjar (@kalapi) from 2016-06-27 to 2016-10-11, with input from Dave Crossland, Denis Jacquerye, Frank Grießhammer, Georg Seifert, Gunnar Vilhjálmsson, Jacques Le Bailly, Michael Everson, Nhung Nguyen (Vietnamese lists), Pablo Impallari (Impallari Encoding), Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (@mekkablue), Thomas Jockin, Thomas Phinney (Adobe Cyrillic lists), and Underware (Latin Plus Encoding)