Version 1.2.1

This is a minor fix to Version 1.2, fixing the faulty appearance of two glyphs: U+00D8 (Ø) (#8) and U+00B5 (µ) (#10).

Other glyphs, such as Ç, will be corrected with another point release after bug fixes are made in MFEKstroke. Tracking blocker issue is MFEK/math.rlib#7.

Thanks to @dscorbett for their review.

Version 1.2

The WOFF2 zip contains web fonts. The regular zip contains traditional OpenType fonts. Fonts with "Guidelines" and "GuidelinesArrows" in their filenames have COLR/CPAL tables and can be displayed in full color.

This is a major release which fixes numerous bugs (#2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7) and also centers MFEKstroke in FRB American Cursive's build process. Now every font style requires MFEKstroke to build, it is indispensable.

The biggest change in this release is that the arrows now look correct for all glyphs and are always offset by the right amount. This was fixed by switching over to a two-pass MFEKstroke build instead of the deprecated beziers.py build.

Spacing of many letters was improved and the flow of text is greatly improved. Any letter pairs which are still very bad should be reported.

Apostrophes, when occurring in the middle of a word, now suppress the tail in the word. This makes words like "isn't" look more natural.

Font metadata is much improved. Windows users should no longer have the problem of not being able to select all the styles.

Arrows

v1.2

v1.1

(In case you're having trouble seeing the issues: note how the offset of arrows is inconsistent. The arrow is right over top of ! and one line of X. Also, in p, the arrow has an unwanted notch. Also, it runs in the wrong direction along k.)

Apostrophes

v1.2

v1.1

Spacing fixes

v1.2

v1.1

(Note g/e pair. In bolder weight, some stroke caps in v1.2 may be inferior to v1.1, I hope to fix this in a bug fix release. I'll follow it up with @MatthewBlanchard in MFEKstroke.)

ц (U+0446)

v1.2

v1.1

(Thanks to Sergej Martynov, @murrrf, for bug report.)

v1.2 contains 69 fonts. 229MB total. Single styles, e.g. Regular, are only 332KB. The color fonts tend to be larger, 1MB+. Fonts with dots or arrows for splines can be 9MB+.

Version 1.1

Bug fix release.

Degree sign now looks correct.

Various signs added: Bitcoin sign, rupee sign, mathematical pi.

Eth overlap fixed.

Makefile order bug fixed which stopped 11 fonts from being generated in the initial release.

69 fonts

Initial release (20210215, v1.0)

FRB American Cursive is finally here!

This font family began its life in 2018. It was put on hold as I waited for free software to catch up. It did, and in six months between Q4 2020 and Q1 2021 I finished the font.

58 fonts included. GPL3