Matrix Sans Typeface

FONTLOG for Libre Dot Matrix
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This file provides detailed information on the Libre Dot Matrix font software.
This information should be distributed along with the fonts and any derivative works.

Basic font information
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Libre Dot Matrix is a typeface family inspired by classic 5x7 dot matrix fonts.

It comes in four variants:
- Regular, with connected square dots
- Print, with separate circular dots
- Screen, with separate square dots
- Video, with interpolation on diagonal sections

This release supports only the Basic Latin block (ASCII), to be expanded in future releases.

Further documentation can be found at: https://github.com/FriedOrange/LibreDotMatrix

Changelog
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25 November 2022 - Version 0.215
- Improved Video style appearance
- Added additional whitespace and hyphen characters
- Fixed alignment of double acute accents
- Changed copyright and registered signs
- Updated font names
- Removed unreachable glyphs (which only existed to placate an older version of Font Bakery)
- Added Greek Delta and mu as references to existing glyphs
- Changed @ sign

15 August 2022 - Version 0.214
- Added kerning

5 August 2022 - Version 0.213
- Changed the working title from "Libre Dot Matrix" to "Matrix Sans"
- Improved the appearance of some characters in the Video style

3 August 2022 - Version 0.212
- Fixed accent placement on Ű and ű
- Increased line height
- Fixed underline position
- Added mark glyph class to the GDEF table to fix Font Bakery warning
- Fixed dot positioning in Screen style
- Increased height of dagger and double dagger

31 July 2022 - Version 0.211
- Changed build process to work around several bugs in FontForge
- The Localised Forms ('locl') OpenType feature now works correctly

28 July 2022 - Version 0.210
- Modified Dutch ij ligature
- Modified capital letter Ŋ; added localised form for Northern Sami
- Added unencoded glyphs from Google Fonts Latin Core to avoid Font Bakery error (temporary)
- Added OpenType features: ccmp, mark, locl, tnum, zero

25 July 2022 - Version 0.200
- Now supports Google Fonts Latin Core and Adobe Latin 3
- Added dotted circle (U+25CC)
- Fixed soft hyphen
- Fixed WinAscent metric

23 July 2022 - Version 0.100
- Now supports the Adobe Latin 2 character set
- Fixed character widths

21 July 2022 - Version 0.002
- Improved Video style appearance
- Lengthened hyphen by one dot
- Fixed character widths
- Fixed line height
- Updated metadata: font names, PANOSE classification, etc.

20 July 2022 - Version 0.001
- Initial test release
- Supports Basic Latin (ASCII)

Acknowledgements
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If you make modifications, be sure to add your name (N), email address (E), web address
(if you have one) (W) and description (D). This list is in alphabetical order.

N: Brad Neil
E: [email protected]
W: http://friedorange.xyz/
D: Designer - original Latin glyphs

Copyright 2022 The Matrix Sans Project Authors (https://github.com/FriedOrange/MatrixSans)

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This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
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