Andika Basic
AndikaBasicR-FAQ-KI
Andika Basic Regular v 1.0
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Where does the name "Andika" come from?
Andika -- pronounced ahn-DEE-kah
Swahili -- spoken widely in southeastern regions of the African continent,
among other places. (See http://www.ethnologue.com/)
Meaning - "Write!"
What characters are included in this release?
Andika Basic covers some 630 commonly-used (in the SIL world) Roman
characters. See http://scripts.sil.org/Andika_technical for the full listing.
What are all the stages of release for the Andika fonts?
Andika Design Review -- completed
Andika Basic -- where we are now
Andika Regular
Andika Basic Bold, Basic Italic, and Basic Bold Italic
Andika Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic
Why is the line spacing so much looser than other fonts?
Our SIL Unicode Roman fonts include characters with multiple stacked
diacritics that need a much looser line spacing (for example, U+1EA8 LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND HOOK ABOVE). We cannot make the line
spacing tighter without experiencing clipping of those characters. You may
be able to overcome this by adjusting the line spacing in the application.
For example, in Microsoft Word select Format / Paragraph and set the line
spacing to use the Exactly setting and a value more suited to your needs.
For example, if the font size is 12 pt, select line spacing of Exactly 13 pt.
This will give a tighter line spacing. You can adjust the value up or down
depending on how many diacritics you need to stack. Another solution would
be to use SILs TypeTuner utility, which allows choosing a line spacing
setting as well as choosing default glyphs.
Does this font have straight quotes as well as curly ones?
Yes, there are both. Here are the Unicode codepoints (in order) and their
character names included in this font:
U+0022 QUOTATION MARK
U+0027 APOSTROPHE
U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
Can I use Andika in my print publication?
Andika Basic is released under the SIL Open Font License
(see http://scripts.sil.org/OFL), which permits use for any publication,
whether electronic or printed. For more answers to usage questions, see the
OFL-FAQ (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL-FAQ). The license, along with
information specific to Andika Basic, is in the release package.
Can I use Andika on my website?
Yes. You can create web pages that request that Andika Basic be used to
display them (if that font is available on the users system). According to
the license, you are even allowed to place the font on your site for people
to download it. We would strongly recommend, however, that you direct users
to our site -- http://scripts.sil.org/Andika_download to download the
font. This ensures that they are always using the most recent version with
bug fixes, etc.
Can I make changes to Andika?
Yes! That is allowed as long as you abide by the conditions of the SIL Open
Font License (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL). We would be very interested in
seeing any changes you might make. See "Notes to contributors"
(http://scripts.sil.org/Andika_download) for more information.
Known Issues
We know of the following problems. Please report any others you encounter:
There has been no manual hinting done, but we have improved the overall
autohinting parameters. Still, onscreen display may at times be somewhat
distorted. Please evaluate the letterforms from printed text, but let us
know if you find severe distortions. In any case, the fonts should look
fine when printed.
Opening the font with FontLab 5.0.x, then closing it, crashes FontLab.
We are working to get this bug fixed in the next version of FontLab.
A workaround is to open the font, save as a .vfb file, close (which
still causes a crash). Then restart FontLab and open the .vfb file.
There are no alternate versions of fi and fl ligatures at this time.
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