Script Systems
Andron at a glance
The Andron font family contains 6 fonts and more than 15,400 glyphs altogether, the major share of it being in the Regular font which contains 5,400 characters.
| Regular | centre of typographic excellence κέντρο τυπογραφικής αριστείας |
|---|---|
| Italic | centre of typographic excellence κέντρο τυπογραφικής αριστείας |
| Semibold | centre of typographic excellence κέντρο τυπογραφικής αριστείας |
| Semibold Italic | centre of typographic excellence κέντρο τυπογραφικής αριστείας |
| Small Capitals | centre of typographic excellence κέντρο τυπογραφικής αριστείας |
| Italic Small Caps | centre of typographic excellence κέντρο τυπογραφικής αριστείας |
Andron currently supports the following script systems:
- Latin L’océan Atlantique est l’un des cinq grands océans de la Terre
- Greek Ο Ατλαντικός Ωκεανός είναι ο δεύτερος μεγαλύτερος ωκεανός
- Coptic ϫⲱⲟⲩ ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ ⲓⲥϫⲉⲛ Ⲁⲃⲣⲁⲁⲙ ϣⲁ Ⲇⲁⲩⲓⲇ
- Cyrillic Атланти́чний океа́н — другий за величиною та глибиною
- Old Italic 𐌉𐌕𐌀·𐌕𐌌𐌉𐌀·𐌉𐌂𐌀𐌂·𐌇𐌄·𐌛𐌀𐌌𐌀𐌔𐌅𐌀·𐌅𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌄𐌙𐌄
- Gothic 𐍃𐌰 𐌺𐍉𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌺𐍃 𐌰𐍂𐌲𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌿𐍃 𐌹𐍃𐍄 𐍃𐌿𐌼𐌰 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍉 𐍈𐌴𐌷
- Runic ᛖᚲᚺᛚᛖᚹᚨᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ᛬ᚺᛟᛚᛏᛁᛃᚨᛉ᛬ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ᛬ᛏᚨᚹᛁᛞᛟ᛬
- Ogham ᚇᚋᚎᚌᚊᚏᚋ
- Ugaritic 𐎀 𐎁 𐎃 𐎄 𐎅 𐎆 𐎈 𐎌 𐎍
- Hebrew סונייקואה יטנלטאה אוה סונייקואה ינשה ולדוגב
- Mandaic ࡀ ࡁ ࡂ ࡃ ࡄ ࡆ ࡇ ࡈ ࡊ ࡌ ࡏ ࡐ
- Cherokee Ꮒꭶꮣ ꭰꮒᏼꮻ ꭴꮎꮥꮕꭲ ꭴꮎꮪꮣꮄꮣ ꭰꮄ ꭱꮷꮃꭽꮙ ꮎꭲ ꭰꮲꮙꮩꮧ ꭰꮄ ꭴꮒꮂ
In-depth support for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic
The coverage for Latin encompasses even special character groups for medieval Latin, according to the MUFI/LinCUA specifications. It also comprises the full repertoire of phonetic letters, as defined by the Unicode standard. The Greek and Cyrillic partitions also comprise fully extended character sets, including historic and ancient characters.
Historical characters
Andron has been developed over many years in close collaboration with scholars in linguistics and medieval studies, namely in conjunction with the international MUFI network. Therefore the typeface provides a very comprehensive support for historic characters, particularly for Latin – but also for Greek, Coptic and Cyrillic. Note that some Hundreds of these special characters have PUA codepoints.
Greek (selected)
Coptic (selected)
Latin (selected)
Cyrillic (selected)
Special character sets
Andron does not only support several script systems but also a rich variety of special characters of all sorts. Besides the comprehensive alphabetic sets Andron contains many Hundreds of characters, symbol groups and pictographs, of which these samples show a small selection:
Alchemical
Astrological
Arrows
Emoticons
Enclosed alphanumerics
Geometric
Mathematical
Miscellaneous
Monetary and measurement
Musical
Ornamental
Prosodic
Public signage
Religious
Transport signage
Typographical
Look for some particular character? See the testing Andron page.
One of Andron’s praised strengths is its design consistency throughout the entire typeface – even all the special characters are drawn meticulously according to the specific Andron ductus, so that whatever combination appears in text, it will result in a harmonious and typographical pleasing setting.
Andron Phonetic support
Andron Regular and Italic provide complete character sets of the phonetic Unicode blocks:
- IPA U+0250
- UPA ext. U+1D00
- Phon. ext. suppl. U+1D80
Andron Regular additionally supports these blocks completely:
- Latin Ext. E
- Latin Ext. F
- Latin Ext. G
That allows for nearly every task in composing phonetic notation.
In Andron Italic there is an additional special Dania character set for Danish dialectology (which is set traditionally only in Italics), by utilization of a semi-official PUA encoding scheme.
Andron Runic support
Besides the Unicode-offical characters there is an additional range of Runes in the PUA. A speciality of Andron is its twofold Runic: whereas in the Regular the style of the Runes match the graphic structure of the serif typeface, more or less, it is mirrored in the Italic font in a more lapidar and less contrasted style.