The Shafarik font, named after Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795–1861), Slovak-born scholar and one of the founders of modern Slavic philology, is a specialized font intended for an academic presentation of Old Church Slavonic (OCS) texts written in either the Cyrillic or Glagolitic alphabets.
The font is based on CyrillicaShafarik by SynthesisSoft, 1994, subsequently redesigned by Nikita Simmons and edited by Aleksandr Andreev and Nikita Simmons as part of the Slavonic Computing Initiative.
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.
This font has been added to Google Fonts and is available for use in Google Docs and other cloud-based software.
See the documentation file for a description of the features. Presently the documentation is available as a PDF document, eventually this document will be converted to a webpage.
See the main repository and the website.