Jura Font Specimen

Open-source font by Daniel Johnson and Alexei Vanyashin
North Carolina

Wright brothers were the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible
First in flight
Most of the kite tests were unpiloted, with sandbags or chains and even a local boy as ballast
Aerodynamics
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Glyph Repertoire

Latin characters

Standard (automatic) ligatures
fi fl ff

Numerals

Arabic figures
π ≈ 3·14159265358979323…

Fractions
½ ¼ ¾
Superscript and Subscript
¹²³⁴

Typographical equipment


Punctuation and quotation marks
.…,·•:;¡!¿?{}[]()\/—–-_*‹›«»‚‘’„“”'"

Other
|¦@&†‡¶§^~©®™

Currencies
₵23 ¢20 ₡32 1¤ $23 32₫ €23 ƒ23 23₣ 43₲ 100₭ ₤33 ₺34 ₼45 ₦45 55₧ 54₱ 54₽ 54₹ £54 ₩42 ¥34

Units of measure
47µF 100kΩ 21°C #19 №38 240g

Mathematical
≈~=≠∙÷¬−+±×∕>≥<≤%‰

Ordinals
ª º

OpenType features

(view in Firefox or Chrome)
Figures and characters (proportional)
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Ordinals
8a 9o > 8a 9o

Capital Eszett as contexual alternate
AßEN > AßEN

Case specific forms (centered/scaled to uppercase letters)
n· ¡n¿ {n} [n] (n) —nl–n- «n» ‹n› |n@
H· ¡H¿ {H} [H] (H) —H–H- «H» ‹H› |H@

Dutch ij- and IJ-digraph with acute
íj ÍJ > íj ÍJ

Turkish dotted i and dotless ı capitalisation
ı i I İ > ı i I İ

Catalan punt volat
cel·la CEL·LA > cel·la CEL·LA

Moldovan and Romanian -cedilla
Ş ş Ţ ţ > Ş ş Ţ ţ

List of supported Latin-based languages:
Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Onĕipŏt, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami (Inari Sami), Sami (Lule Sami), Sami (Northern Sami), Sami (Southern Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni

Worklog

The new version of Jura has been improved and extended to support more languages, including Vietnamese. This worklog tells the story of the process.
View full worklog on GF Discussions thread

Origins

Graphical features of Jura are closely related to the Kayah Li part, with an offset to the diagonal nature of some strokes, unique for this script. Another detail, Kayah Li lacks the roundness of Latin.

Monoline Master

I discovered a better method for generating this master: with the remove overlap option off. This produces a much cleaner result, and eliminates the need for a post-filter cleanup.

Vietnamese

In a case of a modular typeface like Jura I tried to go with as few accent variants as possible. However some custom accents were built for this set.

Finish Line

The font inspector script was a great helper for refining metrics. I hope this time investment will pay off, and make kerning a lesser hassle.