Features of the ‘BukyVede’ Font Sebastian Kempgen

Documentation for v. 2.001 of the BukyVede font, released April. 2014

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The blueprint for the Bukyvede typeface

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Acknowledgements The BukyVede font is the typeface used by the journal «Polata knigopisnaja» (Mario Capaldo and William R. Veder, eds.), published by William R. Veder & Michael Bakker, Slavisch Seminarium, Amsterdam. The digital font is based on CyrillicaOhrid and GlagolicaBulgarian (with additions from Rumen Lazov), adapted to Unicode 5.1 and enhanced by William R. Veder, Chicago; additional touches, more characters, technical and design updates, font generation and maintainance by Sebastian Kempgen, Bamberg, 2008-2014. Bold weight created by Sebastian Kempgen 2011, Latin ABC created by Sebastian Kempgen 2013 and added to v. 2.0. All rights reserved. Unicode 7.0 updates in the Cyrillic-Extended B block added to v. 2.001. All superscripts slightly larger. Greek punctuation added. Copyright and Legal All rights to their individual contributions remain with the original authors. The font is free to use, but not in the public domain. Unicode Blocks On the next pages, the Unicode blocks supported by the font are given. Above each cell, you will see the Unicode code associated with a given glyph.

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Cyrillic (see Private Use Area for certain alternate character variants)

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Cyrillic Supplemental --- (no Slavonic characters in this block) Cyrillic Extended B (letters, superscripts, and combining superscripts; Unicode 7.0 updates marked)

Nota bene: the “jers” added in Unicode 7.0 are spacing characters, not combining super-scripts. According to the official Unicode documentation, they are for Lithuanian dialecto-logy but may be useful for Slavicists nevertheless. Cyrillic Extended A (more combining superscripts)

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Glagolitic

Private Use Area (combining diacritics for uppercase characters, Cyrillic and Glagolitic character variations, more superscripts)

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Basic Latin

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General Punctuation

Supplemental Punctuation (editorial marks)

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Combining Diacritics

Combining Diacritics Supplemental (Comb. Half Marks)

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Samples (copy and paste)

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✎ Bibliographische Angaben / Bibliographical Entry: Sebastian Kempgen: Features of the BukyVede Font (v. 2.001). Published electronically, University of Bamberg 2014. 10 pp.

Copyright und Lizenz / Copyright and License: © Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kempgen 2014 Bamberg University, Germany, Slavic Linguistics http://www.uni-bamberg.de/slavling/personal/prof-dr-sebastian-kempgen/ mailto:sebastian.kempgen@uni-bamberg.de License: by-nc-nd

April 2014, v. 2.1

Font Download:

http://kodeks.uni-bamberg.de/AKSL/Schrift/BukyVede.htm