Junicode version 2.204

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI), with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Version 2.204 incorporates the latest additions to the MUFI recommendation, plus various changes suggested by users, the most significant of which is a revision to Stylistic Set 7 (Underdotted) that expands Latin coverage and completely covers Greek. In addition, this release includes a little utility for LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX users that loads Junicode, accepting various options to customize it. The file “Encoded Characters” has been deleted and a code chart added to the Junicode Manual as Chapter Ten.