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Euphemia
Canadian Syllabics & Latin Scripts
Euphemia covers most languages
which use the Canadian Syllabic script including
various Cree orthographies, Inuktitut and the historical Carrier/Dakelh
script (dulkw'ahke). Three fonts are available with free end-user licences
in TrueType-OpenType format (.ttf).
Windows/OSX
TrueType font files
[264KB][v.2.66]
· Current version
2.66
· Font family includes Regular, Bold and Italic styles.
· Character
compliment includes Unified Canadian Syllabics Unicode range, Windows 1252
Latin script codepage. Small Caps and OSF to be re-introduced in ver. 2.7.
Version 2.66 matches Vista distribution.
Character
compliment
[193KB][v.6.xi.2004]
(small caps & OSFigures not shown in this document)
· Hinted for ClearType and greyscale
rendering
NOTE: licenses for these fonts are distributed free to end-users. If you wish to re-distribute the fonts in any manner, please contact Tiro for information on distribution licenses. Redistribution of these files is prohibited without a Distribution License.
If you already have copies of
Euphemia which you downloaded previously, or which came bundled with Windows
or Mac OS X, you will always find the most up-to-date version on this website
should you want to upgrade. Fonts downloaded from the Tiro website may
not have the same name as other distributions. Versions shipped by Microsoft
or Apple or others are not guaranteed to be fully compatible with Tiro
versions (generally Tiro versions will have a larger character and glyph
set as well as other updated features).
NOTE for those using InDesign: Euphemia (and
Pigiarniq, Uqammaq) have a default space glyph which is designed to work
with syllabic texts. This space will seem too wide for Latin-based texts.
To deal with this issue, all Latin characters are kerned against the space
glyph. If using InDesign, use 'Optical' spacing for syllabics and 'Metrics'
for Latin/Roman text. Turning kerning on in other applications may also
resolve the issue.
© 2004
Tiro Typeworks & Ross Mills
