FONTLOG
Badami, Kaveri - NLCI Kannada fonts
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This file provides detailed information on the NLCI Kannada fonts.
This information should be distributed along with the NLCI Kannada fonts and any derivative works.

Basic Font Information
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Pan Kannada font designed to support all the languages using the Kannada script.

ChangeLog
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(This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.)

16 Dec 2022 (Dev NLCI) NLCI Kannada fonts version 0.600
- Improved positioning of nuktas in the italic faces
- Change size and weight of Latin in Badami
- Latin glyphs in Badami are from Gentium Plus at 75% (https://software.sil.org/gentium/)
- Latin glyphs in Kaveri are from Exo at 71% (https://github.com/NDISCOVER/Exo-1.0)
- Additional Latin glyphs in Kaveri are from Andika at 71% (https://software.sil.org/andika/)
30 Nov 2022 (Dev NLCI) NLCI Kannada fonts version 0.500
- Improved flat joins to resolve hinting issues
- New ligatures for some matras with round top consonants
- Small improvements to many glyphs
- Improved handling of sub forms and reph
- Removed Graphite shaping
- Added U+0CDD and U+0CF3
08 Mar 2022 (Dev NLCI) NLCI Kannada fonts version 0.400
- Allow virama (acting as a vowel) to come before a length mark
- Corrected contour directions
- Remove script prefix (KNDA) from font names
- Improved OpenType and Graphite shaping
- Slightly expand and improve the character set
04 Jan 2019 (Dev NLCI) NLCI Kannada fonts version 0.300
- Provide akhand forms
- Position nuktas
- Glyphs from the legacy font files are no longer scaled up
- Glyphs from Latin fonts and Annapurna SIL are scaled 71%
03 Aug 2018 (Dev NLCI) NLCI Kannada fonts version 0.201
- Position sub sub forms better
- Include a few more characters
29 Mar 2018 (Dev NLCI) NLCI Kannada fonts version 0.200
- Add many Latin and Devanagari characters.
- Latin glyphs in Badami are from Gentium Book Basic (https://software.sil.org/gentium/)
- Latin glyphs in Kaveri are from Exo (https://github.com/NDISCOVER/Exo-1.0)
- Additional Latin glyphs in Kaveri are from Charis SIL (https://software.sil.org/charis/)
- Indian Rupee Sign is from Annapurna SIL (https://software.sil.org/annapurna/)
19 Jun 2015 (Dev NLCI) NLCI Kannada fonts version 0.100
- Latin glyphs are from Charis SIL (https://software.sil.org/charis/)

Acknowledgements
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(If you make modifications be sure to add your
name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description (D).
This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.)

N: Dev NLCI
E: dev@nlife.in
W: http://www.nlci.in/fonts/
D: NLCI designers and font engineers

N: Bobby de Vos
D: Font engineer
