TUGboat 45:2 (2024)
The Communications of the TeX Users Group

Title: Packaging Arsenal fonts for (Xe/Lua)LaTeX

Summary: discussion and examples of this award-winning Ukrainian font.

Full text of article: publicly available now.

Author: Boris Veytsman

Publication: TUGboat volume 45, number 2 (2024), pages 271–273

DOI (this page): 10.47397/tb/45-2/tb140veytsman-arsenal
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Category: Fonts

Difficulty: Introductory

Abstract: The decolonization of art is important not just for the decolonized people, but for the rest of us as well, making our common inheritance richer. I wanted to participate in this process by including in TeX distributions a distinctively Ukrainian font. While there is a number of such fonts today, most of them are commercial. Free Ukrainian fonts are often released under licenses incompatible with TeXLive. Fortunately there was a high quality font, Arsenal, recently released under Open Font License (OFL). It has a quite interesting history, which we will briefly touch here.

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