Pomorsky is a decorative font intended for drop caps (bukvitsy) and titling in Old Rite texts. It reproduces the calligraphic style of book and chapter titles used by Priestless Old Believers of the Vyg Hermitage.
The font was designed by Nikita Simmons and then reencoded for Unicode by Aleksandr Andreev as part of the Slavonic Computing Initiative, released under SIL OFL v. 1.1.
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.
There are no specialized features. Only glyphs used in titling are provided in the font.
See the main repository and the website.