FONTLOG
Ruwudu font
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This file provides detailed information on the Ruwudu font software.
This information should be distributed along with the Ruwudu font
and any derivative works.

Basic Font Information
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Ruwudu is the Manga word for "writing". This style of writing is used by the Manga 
people in Niger, West Africa. This font was initially designed as a lighter or 
companion version of Alkalami Regular (https://software.sil.org/alkalami/). The 
design is still very much influenced by the Rubutun Kano style, but was based on 
samples of footnotes from the market edition manuscripts. These were made with a 
monoline tool, likely a ball point pen or something similar. The extreme swashes 
and tails of Alkalami are replaced by more classic and reserved shapes. 

This font supports the characters known to be used by languages written in this
style of Arabic script, but may not have the characters needed for other
languages.

This font utilizes state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex
typographic issues. Font smarts are implemented using OpenType only. We have
no current plans to support Graphite.

Four weights for this typeface family are included:
     * Ruwudu Regular
     * Ruwudu Medium
     * Ruwudu SemiBold
     * Ruwudu Bold

ChangeLog
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(This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.)

### 2023-02-22 (WSTech team) Ruwudu Version 3.000
#### New
- Added 3 weights — Medium, SemiBold, and Bold
- Added OpenType language support for Hausa
- Added characters: 
  - U+0870 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED FATHA
  - U+0872 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH RIGHT MIDDLE STROKE
  - U+0874 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED KASRA
- Added mirrored glyph:
  - 2248 ALMOST EQUAL TO
#### Improved
- Updated space characters to match industry standards (emspace, enspace, etc.)
- Adjust width for some mathematical symols
  - 003C LESS-THAN SIGN
  - 003E GREATER-THAN SIGN
  - 00AC NOT SIGN
  - 00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN
  - 00F7 DIVISION SIGN
  - 2248 ALMOST EQUAL TO
  - 2264 LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO
  - 2265 GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO

### 2022-06-09 (WSTech team) Ruwudu Version 2.000 (production release)
- Split Alkalami Light font v 1.300 into a new typeface called Ruwudu. 
  Version history is available in the Alkalami font package.
- Removed non Unicode compliant solutions
- Removed unnecessary swash glyphs
- Added above nukta to isolate and final U+0767
- Reduced line spacing

Information for Contributors
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We welcome contributions to this font project, such as new glyphs, enhanced 
smart font code, or bug fixes. The best way to begin the process is to file 
an issue in the Github project (https://github.com/silnrsi/font-ruwudu) 
or respond to an existing issue and express your interest. Then we can begin 
to correspond with you regarding what all might be required and discuss how 
to best submit your contributions.

To enable us to accept contributions in a way that honors your contribution 
and respects your copyright while preserving long-term flexibility for open 
source licensing, you would also need to agree to the SIL International 
Contributor License Agreement for Font Software (v1.0) prior to sending us 
your contribution. To read more about this requirement and find out how to 
submit the required form, please visit the CLA information page
(https://software.sil.org/fontcla).

Acknowledgements
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(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications
be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description
(D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.)

N: Sharon Correll
D: Type designer and script engineer

N: Lorna Evans
D: Project manager and script engineer

N: Bob Hallissy
W: Script engineer

N: Becca Hirsbrunner Spalinger
W: http://software.sil.org/ruwudu/
D: Lead designer

N: Nicolas Spalinger
W: Script engineer

The Ruwudu font project is maintained by SIL International.

For more information see the Ruwudu website:
http://software.sil.org/ruwudu/
