PUBLIC BETA
Skeena Indigenous is a family of indigenous-first fonts for North American languages using Latin-based orthographies, published by Microsoft under the Open Font License v1.1.
Read about the background of the project:
https://www.tiro.com/articles/skeena-indigenous
The latest build of the Skeena Indigenous fonts are available from the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/microsoft/Skeena-Indigenous-Typeface/releases/latest
Along with the fonts, source, and build tools, the repo provides extensive documentation about the decision making in the type design and font making, including discussion of unique features of indigenous language texts and how these are addressed.
https://microsoft.github.io/Skeena-Indigenous-Typeface/
Skeena Indigenous was designed with
Paul_Hanslow, based on our earlier work from 2018 and later Calibri-replacement candidate. The design was thoroughly reviewed and revised to give priority to the needs of indigenous languages.
Skeena Indigenous went public this week is to coincide with the Celebrating Salish Conferece, hosted by the Kalispel Tribe. One of the working group members, Craig Cummings, is there, showing Skeena Indigenous to attendees from various tribes and nations.
https://kalispeltribe.com/our-language/celebrating-salish-conference/
PATCH release:
Skeena Indigenous v0.901 fixes a bug in the name table style entries of the Extra Bold and Black fonts.
https://github.com/microsoft/Skeena-Indigenous-Typeface/releases/tag/v0.901-beta-patch
Skeena Indigenous v0.91 public beta update. Includes additional diacritics for more languages, bug fixes, and a complete revision of the handling of U+0315 (comma above right).
[Documentation not yet updated to reflect changes.]
https://github.com/microsoft/Skeena-Indigenous-Typeface/releases/tag/v0.91-beta
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