Vertograd is a typeface used for decorative drop caps (bukvitsi) in liturgical books of the Russian Orthodox Church published since the late 19th century.
The font was originally designed by Vlad Dorosh as Vertograd UCS for the Irmologion project. It was then released under the LaTeX Project Public License as part of CSLTeX. Next, it was reencoded for Unicode by Aleksandr Andreev and released as Vertograd Unicode, part of the Slavonic Computing Initiative, and released under SIL OFL v. 1.1. Edited by Aleksandr Andreev.
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 bukvitsy are provided in the font.
See the main repository and the website.