Spleen 1.9.1 (2021-06-13)
- Tweak wsfont export program to account for the new block in the 6x12 version
- Mention that Haiku now uses Spleen 12x24 in the trivia section
- Fix paths to wsfont generators
- Add an 'otb' target to generate OTB files for all sizes using fonttosfnt
- Also remove generated .otb files in the 'clean' target
- Generate .dfont files again in release tarballs
- Generate OTB versions in release tarballs
- Also remove generated .dfont files in the 'clean' target
Spleen 1.9.0 (2021-03-12)
- Set WEIGHT_NAME property to "Medium" for all sizes
- Increment STARTPROPERTIES to account for WEIGHT_NAME addition
- Enlarge vertical line for consistency with other small sizes (5x8 version)
- Add full support for the Latin-1 Supplement Unicode block (6x12 version)
Spleen 1.8.2 (2020-07-31)
- Fix size of the lower case 'ae' character in the 16x32 and 32x64 versions
- Fix size of the lower case 'oe' character in the 16x32 and 32x64 versions
- Add 'AE' and 'ae' characters with acute accent
- Add 'AE' and 'ae' characters with macron
- Add 'A', 'a', 'E', 'e', 'I', 'i', 'O', 'o', 'R', 'r', 'U', 'u' with
inverted breve
- Add 'A', 'a', 'O', 'o' characters with dot above
- Add 'O' and 'o' characters with ogonek
- Add 'O' and 'o' characters with ogonek and macron
- Shorten parentheses, square brackets, braces, slash, backslash in the
8x16 version, fixing alignment issues
- Shift vertical line and double vertical line characters one pixel
up (8x16 version)
Spleen 1.8.1 (2020-07-16)
- Center tilde vertically for all sizes, as modern fonts do
- Add black triangles in the 25E2-25E5 range
- Add single angle quotation mark characters
- Add white and black circle characters
- Add inverse bullet and inverse white circle characters
- Add 'A', 'a', 'O', 'o', 'U', 'u' characters with caron
- Add 'I', 'i', 'G', 'g', 'j' characters with caron
- Add 'H', 'h', 'K', 'k', characters with caron
- Add 'E' and 'e' characters with cedilla
- Add 'A', 'a', 'E', 'e', 'I', 'i', 'O', 'o', 'R', 'r', 'U', 'u' with
double grave
- Add "almost equal to" character
- Add 'G' and 'g' characters with acute accent
- Add 'O' and 'o' characters with stroke and acute
- Add double vertical bar and double exclamation mark characters
- Add stand alone breve, dot above, ogonek, small tilde, and double
acute accent
Spleen 1.8.0 (2020-06-29)
- Add Initial 6x12 version, containing printable ASCII characters, the
Braille Patterns Unicode block, and light Box Drawing characters
- Improve ampersand character, making it more consistent with other
sizes (5x8 version)
- Add instructions on how to use Spleen in the NetBSD console
Spleen 1.7.1 (2020-06-21)
- Add some Powerline characters (arrows symbols and padlock) (5x8 version)
- Fix duplicate character names for Powerline symbols
- Uppercase ISO in the FONT property so fonts can be processed through
ucs2any(1)
- Add "Black Diamond" and "Lozenge" characters for all sizes
- Add "Black Heart Suit" and "Black Diamond Suit" characters for all sizes
- Remove strain pixel on the '5' digit (5x8 version)
- Improve the Esszet character (8x16, 12x24, 16x32, and 32x64 versions)
Spleen 1.7.0 (2020-02-13)
- Improve generated PSF files so that box-drawing characters are correctly
displayed
- Add the FONT_VERSION XFLD property for all BDF sizes
- Generate OpenType (OTF) versions for the 8x16, 12x24, 16x32 and 32x64 sizes
- Stop generating .dfont files, OTF versions should be used instead
- Add links to Debian and Ubuntu packages
Spleen 1.6.0 (2019-12-02)
- Make it clear that .dfont files are provided in release tarballs
- Initial SFD version converted from the 8x16 BDF file
- Add a 'otf' target in the Makefile to generate an OTF version
- Mention the OTF version in the README, in notes for Windows users
Spleen 1.5.0 (2019-10-01)
- Shift the middle bar of the digit '3' one pixel up, for better
alignement (12x24 version)
- Tweak the digit '7' for consistency with other sizes (5x8 version)
- Make the 'Z', 'z' and derived characters more balanced, as is the
case with other sizes (12x24 version)
- Tweak the digit '2' for consistency with other sizes (12x24 version)
- Make the slash inside the digit '0' one pixel thiner (32x64 version)
- Add light box drawings characters in the 5x8 version
- Add full support for the Braille Patterns Unicode block in the 5x8 version
- Add branch, LN, and padlock icons for Powerline users
- Also provide a fonts.alias file, along with fonts.alias-spleen
Spleen 1.4.0 (2019-09-24)
- Add left and right single quotation mark characters, both identical to
an apostrophe
- Add left and right double quotation mark characters, both identical to
ASCII quotation mark
- Add bullet and horizontal ellipsis characters
- Add the eight trigrams
- Add full support for the Block Elements Unicode block
OK kamil@
ChangeLog:
- Add link to instructions on how to enable bitmap fonts support on Ubuntu
- Add a Makefile target to generate a specimen file
- Add full support for the Braille Patterns Unicode block
- Add light box drawings characters for the 16x32 and 32x64 versions
OK kamil@
ChangeLog:
- Add full support for the Latin Extended-A Unicode block
- Add euro symbol
- Character at position CB is 'E' with diaeresis, not with tilde (12x24 version)
- Character at position D6 is 'O' with diaeresis, not with tilde (12x24 version)
- Character at position DC is 'U' with diaeresis, not with tilde (12x24 version)
- Fix tilde alignment in the 'o' with tilde character (32x64 version)
- Fix middle bar thickness in the upper case 'eth' character (12x24 version)
- Fix ring alignment for the 'A' and 'a' characters (16x32 and 32x64 versions)
- Remove strain pixel on the '3' and 'k' characters (32x64 version)
- Remove fillers for characters other than ISO 8859-1 ones (5x8 version)
OK kamil@
ChangeLog:
- Initial support for the Latin Extended-A Unicode block, all sizes but
5x8 now have all Polish characters available
- Shift the middle bar of the upper case 'G' one pixel down (12x24 version)
- Shift lower case 'k' character right, for better alignment (12x24, 16x32,
and 32x64 versions)
- Make upper case 'X' thicker (16x32 and 32x64 versions)
- Make upper case 'V' thicker (32x64 version)
- Make lower case 'g' character smoother (16x32 and 32x64 versions)
- Add some artefacts on each side of the lower case 'i'
- Also add artefacts on each side of accented lower case 'i' characters
OK kamil@
From maintainer in private mail.
- Remove quotation marks around XLFD font names
- Remove strain pixels on the inner upper part of parentheses (16x32 version)
- Harmonize the 'v' and 'V' characters across all sizes
- Remove artefacts from the 'c' in the copyright sign (8x16, 12x24, 16x32, and
32x64 versions)
- Make the upper left corner of the 'R' sharp in the registered sign (16x32,
and 32x64 versions)
- Provide generated fonts in PCF, PSF, and .dfont formats
Spleen is a monospaced bitmap font available in 5 sizes:
5x8, 8x16, 12x24, 16x32 and 32x64.
fonts/spleen provides font files in the PCF format for use with X11.
