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The document provides information for developers interested in contributing to the Andika font project, which is licensed under the SIL Open Font License allowing free use, modification, and redistribution. It outlines the process for building fonts from source code available on GitHub and encourages contributions such as new glyphs and bug fixes, while emphasizing quality control and adherence to the Contributor License Agreement. Additional resources for setup and contribution guidelines are also mentioned.

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Developer

The document provides information for developers interested in contributing to the Andika font project, which is licensed under the SIL Open Font License allowing free use, modification, and redistribution. It outlines the process for building fonts from source code available on GitHub and encourages contributions such as new glyphs and bug fixes, while emphasizing quality control and adherence to the Contributor License Agreement. Additional resources for setup and contribution guidelines are also mentioned.

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Andika - Developer information

Welcome font developers!


We welcome other developers who wish to get involved in supporting and enhancing these fonts or who
want to modify them.

Permissions granted by the OFL


SIL’s fonts are licensed according to the terms of the SIL Open Font License. The OFL allows the fonts to be
used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. For details see
the [Link] and [Link] files in the package.

Building the fonts from source code


The full source code for our Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic fonts is available on Github:

• Charis SIL Github repository


• Doulos SIL Github repository
• Gentium Plus Github repository
• Andika Github repository

Font sources are in the UFO3 format with font family structures defined using designspace. OpenType
source code is stored in the .fea format in the UFO ([Link]) but is maintained in a separate file using the
more efficient and powerful .feax format.

The fonts are built using a completely free and open source workflow using industry-standard tools
(fonttools), a package of custom python scripts (pysilfont), and a build and packaging system (Smith). The
whole system is available in a preconfigured virtual machine using VirtualBox and Vagrant.

Full instructions for setting up the tools and building SIL fonts are available on a dedicated web site: SIL Font
Development Notes.

Contributing to the project


We warmly welcome contributions to the fonts, such as new glyphs, enhanced smart font code, or bug fixes.
The brief overview of contributing changes is a good place to begin. The next step is to contact us by
responding to an existing issue or creating an issue in the Github repository and expressing your interest. We
can then work together to plan and integrate your contributions.

Here are a few examples of contributions that would be welcomed (some more than others):

• Old style figures


• Coptic (Gentium)
• Historic/Archaic Cyrillic
• Mathematical glyphs
• Additional scripts (Armenian, etc.), and any needed OpenType code

Because we want to be able to guarantee a high level of quality for our fonts, we will review submissions
carefully. Contributions will need to cover all the weights and styles of the family and in some cases all four
font projects. Please don’t be discouraged if we do not include a submission due to quality or
incompleteness, or if we ask you to make specific revisions.

To enable us to accept contributions in a way that honors your contribution and respects your copyright while
preserving long-term flexibility for open source licensing, you would also need to agree to the SIL
International Contributor License Agreement for Font Software (v1.0) prior to sending us your contribution.
To read more about this requirement and find out how to submit the required form, please visit the CLA
information page.

This guide is from the Andika project version 6.200 and is copyright © 2004-2023 SIL International.

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