Fjalla is a medium contrast display sans serif. Fjalla has been carefully adjusted to the restrictions of the screen. Despite having display characteristics Fjalla can be used in a wide range of sizes.
Sorkin Type makes retail and Libre fonts.
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 buildwill produce font files.make testwill run FontBakery's quality assurance tests.make proofwill generate HTML proof files.
The proof files and QA tests are also available automatically via GitHub Actions - look at https://EbenSorkin.github.io/FjallaOne.
27 Oct 2012 (Eben Sorkin) Fjalla v1.000
- Mastered VBF to TTF and other formats.
- hinted font Using TTFAutohint version 0.92
25 Oct 2012 (Irina Smirnova) Fjalla v1.000
- Completed first complete version of Fjalla in Fontlab ( VBF format )
28 July 2017 (eben Sorkin) v 1.001
- increased the glyphs to support addiional languages
- The diacritics are now sourced from unicode 0300 series codepoints with zero width instead of the previous default 0200 codepoints.
- Legacy diacritics (0200 codepoints) remain with some left and right spacing in case they need to be referenced in text.
- Vertical metrics have ben made consistent with current Google practice to avoid clipping.
- OpenType naming tables are added and have NID 16 & 17 entries so that Font Menus in Adobe apps say Fjalla with a style of "One"
2 March 2023 (Eben Sorkin and Emma Marichal) V1.002
- kerning added and completed
- language supported improved
If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and description (D). This list is in alphabetical order.
N: Emma Marichal E: [email protected] W: emmamarichal.fr D: Mastering
N: Irina Smirnova E: [email protected] D: Designer
N: Eben Sorkin E: [email protected] W: www.sorkintype.com D: Mastering & Design
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
This font repository structure is inspired by Unified Font Repository v0.3, modified for the Google Fonts workflow.