Berka v1.1.0

Interactive showcase

• Redesign the GitHub Pages site around the four official Berka families.
• Add an editable specimen lab with family, weight, size, and ligature controls.
• Add a concise family comparison, ambiguity guide, and copyable install command.
• Improve responsive behavior and add dedicated social preview and favicon assets.

Refreshed specimens

• Regenerate repository screenshots for Instrument, Focus, Closer, and Text.
• Show current numerals, ambiguous glyphs, punctuation, and programming ligatures in each specimen.

The font binaries are unchanged from v1.0.1; this release focuses on the showcase and specimen experience.

Full changelog: v1.0.1...v1.1.0

Berka v1.0.1

Patch release updating all four official families—Instrument, Closer, Focus, and Text—to use a stemmed barred 7. Includes TTF and WOFF2 builds plus SHA-256 checksums.

Berka v1.0.0

Berka v1.0.0

This release establishes four official families going forward:

• Berka Mono Instrument
• Berka Mono Closer
• Berka Mono Focus
• Berka Text

Numeral refresh

• Baseless, angled 1
• Open, non-crossing 4
• Long-dotted 0
• Bent 7 with a short upright stem
• Consistent numeral construction across all four official families

Family and website cleanup

• Remove Compact, SemiCondensed, Narrow, Control, and Retina builds.
• Remove their source plans, TTF/WOFF2 artifacts, specimens, screenshots, installer choices, and website entries.
• Rebuild all official TTF and WOFF2 files with Iosevka 34.6.1 and ttfautohint 1.8.4.
• Regenerate the four retained website screenshots.
• Update build scripts, installer tests, examples, documentation, and website copy for the four-family lineup.

Verification

• ./scripts/test-install.sh
• Shell syntax checks for build and install scripts
• 38 TTF and 38 WOFF2 files validated across four families
• 18 px HarfBuzz numeral renders reviewed for all four Regular styles
• Local Chrome render verified the homepage and all four final WOFF2 families
• Retired-family reference scan returned no matches

Berka Mono Closer v0.10.0

What's Changed

• Add Berka Mono Instrument as the recommended coding family.
• Add Instrument TTF and WOFF2 files across Book, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold styles.
• Update the website font list and default specimen to include Instrument.
• Update installer, build scripts, examples, README setup docs, and VS Code screenshot.
• Add an Instrument ligature audit documenting 124/157 audited sequence coverage.

Verification

• ./scripts/test-install.sh
• git diff --cached --check
• HarfBuzz audit: total=157 covered=124 missing=33
• Release archive contains 164 TTF/WOFF2 font files.

Berka Mono Closer v0.9.0

What's new

• Adds Berka Text, a prose-first quasi-proportional family for blogs and long-form reading.
• Includes Berka Text TTF and WOFF2 files in Regular, Book, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, and Italic styles.
• Updates the website with a dedicated article preview for Berka Text.
• Updates build, WOFF2, and installer scripts for the new Text family.

Package

• BerkaMonoCloser-v0.9.0-TTF-WOFF2.zip includes all checked-in TTF and WOFF2 font families.

Berka Mono Closer v0.8.0

Adds Berka Mono Focus, a debugging-first coding cut tuned for ambiguity reduction, compact scan density, high-DPI weight, and restrained operator ligatures. Includes all TTF and WOFF2 font files for Closer, Compact, SemiCondensed, Narrow, Control, Retina, and Focus.

Berka Mono Closer v0.7.0

Changes

• Added Berka Mono Closer Narrow, a genuinely narrow width-520 family.
• Added TTF and WOFF2 builds for Narrow.
• Updated installer, build scripts, website preview, terminal examples, and README docs.
• Refreshed README screenshots and added the Narrow specimen image.

Validation

• Built Narrow from Iosevka source.
• Verified Narrow Regular exposes family name "Berka Mono Closer Narrow" and advance width 520.
• Generated WOFF2 files and packaged TTF/WOFF2 release archive.

Berka Mono Closer v0.6.0

Adds Berka Mono Retina, a high-DPI coding cut with slightly heavier optical strokes, tight leading, a Book weight, oblique italics, full programming ligatures, README documentation, a specimen screenshot, and both TTF and WOFF2 assets.

Berka Mono Closer v0.5.0

Adds WOFF2 web font assets for all Berka Mono Closer families: Closer, Compact, SemiCondensed, and Control. Includes a repeatable scripts/build-woff2.sh helper, README updates, and the full TTF + WOFF2 release archive.

Berka Mono Closer v0.4.0

Adds Berka Mono Closer SemiCondensed, a denser width-585 variant for tighter terminal/editor columns. Includes 8 SemiCondensed TTF styles, source build plan, install/build script updates, docs, and specimen assets.