Junicode version 2.206

The Junicode font is primarily for scholars and students of the Middle Ages, but it serves users with a wide variety of interests. It tracks the development of the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI), with its wealth of specialized medieval characters, but it also provides many OpenType features that allow users to access MUFI characters in accessible ways.

Junicode is an extended font family, with five weights and five widths. This makes for a large number of font files, but the font also comes in a variable version, in which all the capabilities of the traditional “static” version—and more!—are packaged in just two files. The variable version is especially suitable for web use, but variable fonts can also be used in Adobe InDesign, LibreOffice, LuaTeX, and other text-processing apps (see the file JunicodeManual.pdf for details).

Version 2.206 adds 140 ligatures for the five tone modifiers (02E5 02E6 02E7 02E8 02E9). These are made from 23 components so as to keep the footprint as small as possible. The TeX junicodevf package now contains settings for 11 point sizes instead of six, for more finely tuned behavior. Documentation for the TeX packages is now included in the Junicode Manual, which has also acquired an index of OpenType features.