FONTLOG for News Cycle ------- --- ---------- This file provides detailed information on the News Cycle Font Software. This information should be distributed along with the News Cycle fonts and any derivative works. Basic Font Information ----- ---- ----------- News Cycle is a realist, sans-serif typeface based primarily on a revival of the 1908 News Gothic face by American Type Founders (ATF). ChangeLog --------- 07 Apr 2011 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.2 - cleanup completed - vertical metrics fixed - reserved font name corrected in metadata - auto-hinting and auto-instructing by FF 28 Jan 2011 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.9 - doing cleanup for first supported public release - added Latin Extended B glyphs (except those using hook or loop). - added wynn, kra, Latin long s, some miscellaneous math - added ff, fi, ffl, ffi ligatures - adjusted stroke width on ordinals, ring, copyright, reserved, trademark, @, and other misc letterlike symbols 17 Jan 2011 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.8 - added more Latin Extended B glyphs, Greek and Cyrillic duplicate glyphs. - cleanup on spacing and accents for Eastern European languages and non-alphabetic characters. 02 Oct 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.7 - added several European and African glyphs, regularized all curved baselines & heights; basic spacing complete. 03 Sep 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.6 - added punctuation, Icelandic glyphs. 01 Sep 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.5 - tentatively happy with basic glyph outlines, working on metrics. 20 Aug 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version 0.1.3 - Finished basic Latin alphabet import. 04 Aug 2010 (Nathan Willis) News Cycle Version .002 - Changed name to News Cycle. - Added most of Latin alphabet characters and some punctuation. Missing are specimens of (4 J Z b c j q w x) and several punctuation marks. 02 Jul 2010 (Nathan Willis) Newsworthy Version .001 - Initial release of font "Newsworthy" with the characters (a d h e s i o n H O R X M Q 3 5 6) traced from the out-of-copyright ATF 1912 specimen of News Gothic. - Outlines created in Inkscape. - Initial metrics auto-generated by FontForge, with additional tweaks added by hand. Acknowledgements ---------------- N: Nathan Willis E: nwillis@glyphography.com W: http://www.freesoftwhere.org D: Instigator - glyphs and code