Menaion is a typeface modelled after the script of Putyatya's Menaion (National Library of Russia, Sof. 202; eleventh century). It provides both Cyrillic and Glagolitic characters and is intended for representing text from Ustav-era Church Slavonic manuscripts.
Menaion was designed by the Manuscript project at Udmurt State University. It was reencoded for Unicode by Aleksandr Andreev with permission from the original authors as part of the Slavonic Computing Initiative and edited, released under SIL OFL v. 1.1. Further edited by Aleksandr Andreev and Nikita Simmons.
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at https://openfontlicense.org/.
The font source is stored in a FontForge SFD file in the sources/ directory. All modifications should be made in FontForge, resulting in an updated SFD file. This file is then converted to UFO format by running the convert script. From terminal:
cd your/local/project/directory
./convert.sh
The font can then be built using fontmake and gftools by running:
make build
Note that this requires Python and will install all of the necessary libraries and tools into a virtualenv at venv/.
To delete the virtualenv and the results of the build, run:
make clean
To build the sample image the sits at the top of this README, run:
make images
The commands make update and make update-project-template update the repository structure and Python dependencies and should be run periodically.
Google's master repository also had a GitHub workflow for building the fonts in the cloud on push, but this seems to always fail because of incorrect dependencies, so has been disabled. Instead, built binaries are stored on GitHub in the fonts/ directory.
- The font provides a number of ligatures, which are made by inserting the Zero Width Joiner (U+200D) between two characters.
See the main repository and the website.