Libron is a modified version of Readerly with various edits to give the font a more neutral look.
The original font was imported and has been manually edited using FontForge. All modified source files are available in the src directory.
I may eventually roll these changes into Readerly at some point. For now, I'm currently evaluating it as a separate font, and as such it co-exists alongside Readerly.
The changes made to this font are mostly to modify some of the stylistically heavy serifs that were originally part of Newsreader.
- For example, many capitals have been modified, e.g.
C,E,F,G,LandShave very noticeably been trimmed down. - Certain glyphs have been reworked:
Tis one such example, but some lowercase characters, too, liked,i,j,t,randu. Minor adjustments have been made across the board to serifs, as well. - Fixed composite glyphs which were originally pre-composed in Readerly.
- Adjusted left and right bearings after glyph modifications.
Due to the size changes applied with Readerly, I figured it would be a good idea to tweak certain aspects of the serif design to make it less "loud" when reading books.
When a commit of Libron is tagged, a version is automatically released. The version number set in VERSION is used when building the font, and is embedded within the font.
The following variants are generated:
- Libron for desktop (TTF)
- Libron for Kobo devices (KF TTF)
- Libron Web (WOFF2)
You can run ./local-build.sh if you have Podman installed to build the definitive fonts. If you have all dependencies installed locally, you can also use ./build.py to build the font with Python.
This font is available under the OFL license.