README.txt

Kurinto Font Folio - Read-Me File

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README.txt file for Kurinto

Kurinto (http://www.Kurinto.com) is a large folio of free, open-source fonts designed for straightforward typesetting of text in digital and printed publications.
The focus is on consistent, quality typography for documents that primarily use Latin scripts (characters in Western and Eastern European languages), but also contain text in other languages that may use diverse character sets. Typesetting academic text is an ideal use of Kurinto.

Each of the primary typefaces -  Book, News, Text, Sans, and Mono - serves a general purpose when typesetting text. The primary typefaces are "pan-Unicode": they contain all 136,755 characters in the Unicode 10.0 standard, covering 139 modern and historic character sets.

The secondary typefaces - Semi, Slab, Bank, ?Frak?, and ?Cali? - are more specialized. They are designed for headings or text that stands out from the main body text. These fonts have substantial, but not complete, coverage of Unicode 10.0. There is also a utility font, Kurinto Last, which serves as an open-source "Last Resort" font.

Kurinto fonts are open-source: available at no cost and licensed under the SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL).
The OFL allows these fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves.
You may download and embed these fonts in digital documents, use them in commercial projects (including mobile apps), and bundle them (with or without modification) for re-distribution under the terms of the OFL. Most of the characters within these fonts are inherited from other font projects that have been distributed under compatible open-source licenses.

The main goal of Kurinto is reliable, straightforward typesetting. To achieve this, Kurinto uses a core of font features that work consistently on a wide range of desktop publishing applications. While some applications are beginning to support advanced font features, the user interface for controlling these features can be complex, and the results can vary dramatically between applications.

These fonts can be used to generate digital documents (such as PDF) that display well on most contemporary computer systems, can be searched, and print well on most contemporary printers. Line spacing and character metrics remain consistent when switching beween languages and between different typefaces in the Kurinto folio.

One extraordinary feature is that all the fonts cover all the character code-points defined for Unicode 10.0. There are cases where a font does not have an appropriate character, because:
1. it is a secondary typeface that does not provide the character,
2. you need to switch to a different typeface to access that character, or
3. you are trying to access a character that is only in a version of Unicode later than 10.0.
In these cases, a "fallback" character is displayed. This is a recognizable, square character that flags
the character as "not available" and provides some information as to how to get the character. Sometimes,
these are called "last resort" characters. This "fallback" feature avoids situations in some applications which attempt to be helpful by automatically substituting fonts. The result of the helpful substitutions is often disasterous to the layout and integrity of the document. The character from the substituted font may look entirely different than the surrounding characters. The height of the character may cause the line height to change abruptly. And there is often no indication that the substitution has been made, and no way to locate these situations.

Kurinto does not focus on display, script, mimicry, or special-effects typefaces, nor does it have optical sizes for small-print. Because the font files are large, using Kurinto fonts for Web pages requires significant bandwidth.

See www.Kurinto.com to access the fonts and additional information.