Junicode version 2.207

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).

In version 2.207, U+02DE Modifier Letter Rhotic Hook harmonizes or ligatures with any preceding IPA vowel character.

A number of glyphs have been added: some for the Ansund project, some for a specific publishing project, some by user request. Note especially the editorial symbols U+2E00-2E0D; new shapes of U+2E4E punctus elevatus; small cap Q with extended and superextended tail (matching the uppercase forms); new "Aldine" shapes of asterisk; and generic shapes of the Tironian et/Et sign (U+2E52, U+204A, designed to fit any context and available via cv69[6-9]):

The italic face also has one significant redesign: the bar of t (with associated ligatures and digraphs) has been moved to let it harmonize better with surrounding glyphs.