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Change Log

The document provides a comprehensive changelog for the Argentum Sans font, detailing updates and fixes across multiple versions from 3.100 to 3.132. Key changes include the addition of new glyphs, adjustments to vertical metrics, kerning, and support for various character sets including Greek and Cyrillic. The updates also highlight improvements in OpenType features and the transition to a variable font in version 3.0.

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Change Log

The document provides a comprehensive changelog for the Argentum Sans font, detailing updates and fixes across multiple versions from 3.100 to 3.132. Key changes include the addition of new glyphs, adjustments to vertical metrics, kerning, and support for various character sets including Greek and Cyrillic. The updates also highlight improvements in OpenType features and the transition to a variable font in version 3.0.

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Changelog prior to Argentum Sans, v2.

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### Version 3.100


- Now with four set of figures: tabular lining (default), tabular oldstyle,
proportional lining, proportional oldstyle.
- fixed kcommaaccent (ķ) accent positioning (thanks @kalapi).
- Deleted some open paths in .glyphs files.

### Version 4.000


- Updated character-set/language support to Google's Pro glyph-set
(https://github.com/google/fonts/tree/master/tools/encodings/GF%202016%20Glyph
%20Sets)
- Updated OS/2 winMetrics to Google's latest vertical metrics recommendations
(https://groups.google.com/d/msg/googlefonts-discuss/W4PHxnLk3JY/KoMyM2CfAwAJ)
- Added 'useTypoMetrics' flag
- Added OpenType features consistent with character-set expansion

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v2.0 (in no particular order):

- Re-worked vertical metrics


- Subsetted to 782 glyph-set (including all Latin, Extended, and Vietnamese)
- Changed to Tabularized numerals
- Added a crossbar 'G' by @green-s (https://github.com/green-s/Montserrat-G)
- Added a tailed 'l' from alternate glyphs
- Fixed adieresismacron and guaranisign (so this one matches the G)
- Added percent and perthousand from Montserrat, version 6.002 (more narrower), and
re-done spacing of both
- Fixed 'G' on italics, so they feel more italicized, rather than obliqued

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v2.7 (in no particular order):

- Added mention to me (Cristiano Sobral) in copyright notes in all weights


- Streamlined vertical metrics in all weights
- Recomposed basic OpenType features
- Adapted kerning to tabular figures in all roman weights
- Imported Cyrillic support from Montserrat, version 7.2
- Modified 'Q' to straight-tailed
- Flattened caps-height (to be exactly 70 percent of em-size)
- Upscaled UPM to 2000

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v2.8 (in no particular order):


- Slightly condensed tracking in lowercase Italic

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v2.10 (in no particular order):


- True forms for 'e' and 'f' in Italic

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v2.12 (in no particular order):


- Some fixes in ae/oe
- Slightly changed spacing in all 'e'-related glyphs in Italic

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v2.14 (in no particular order):


- Adjusted G overshoot in many weights
- Rebuilt composite glyphs in Thin/ThinItalic
- Made f/t crossbars match x-height

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v2.16 (in no particular order):


- Some bug fixes (including Aring/aring)
- Added colonmod (U+A789)
Changelog of Argentum Sans, v2.18 (in no particular order):
- Made 'Q' display-friendly (by changing it to crossing,
but not descending below the baseline)
- Fixed copyright notes (so it matches OFL.txt in Github)
- Adjusted left kerning in G-related glyphs in Italic
- Fixed greaterequal in several Italic weights
- Fixed some accents in Italic

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.0 (in no particular order):


- Upgraded to variable font

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.2 (in no particular order):


- Reduced some more tracking in Italic

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.4 (in no particular order):


- Adjusted kerning of upper/lowercase k/v/w/x/y
- Adjusted G crossbar in Italic
- Redrawn 0 (all forms) in Italic

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.6 (in no particular order):


- Re-imported Cyrillic forms from Montserrat v7.2
- Redrawn S in Italic

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.8 (in no particular order):


- Removed serif in 1.tf and 1.tosf

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.9 (in no particular order):


- Redrawn G in Italic

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.11 (in no particular order):


- Reverted back to tabular figures as default (as of prior
to version 3.0)
- Re-adjusted spacing and kerning to tabular figures
- Fixed dieresis on i (for Ukrainian language), later undone

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.13 (in no particular order):


- Added ligature for double I/idieresis
- Widened G crossbar (both Roman and Italic)
- Fixes in wonsign, naira, and peso

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.14 (in no particular order):


- Added mark and mkmk features
- Some fixes in 1 and Q

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.16 (in no particular order):


- Some fixes on Q
- Standalone otf files
- Ported webfonts script to Python

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.17 (in no particular order):


- Some fixes on Q
- Fixes overlapping characters in Cyrillic
- Reduced contrast in G

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.100 (in no particular order):


- Imported Greek support from Montserrat-Z-Remix
(https://github.com/AndreasZorpidis/Montserrat-Z-Remix)

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.101 to v3.103 (in no particular order):


- Changed question mark

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.110 to v3.111 (in no particular order):


- Some adjusts in spaces
- MAJOR 1: Upscaled eM size to 2000
- MAJOR 2: Changed 'a' to double-storey in Italic only
- MAJOR 3: Synced horizontal metrics from Roman to Italic.
As a result, Argentum Sans now has multiplexed posture,
but Roman and Italic sources are still independent

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.112 to v3.113 (in no particular order):


- Cojoined Aring
- Some fixes in question mark

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.114 (in no particular order):


- Imported question mark from Jones
(https://github.com/indestructible-type/Jones/)
- Also, modified exclam to match the new default question mark
- Update copyright notes to include Montserrat Z Remix & Jones

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.115 (in no particular order):


- Fixed some uncentered diacritics
- Reinstated proportional lining & old-style figures
(also respaced to match Roman)
- Some adjusts on Italic 'a'

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.117 (in no particular order):


- Re-imported anchors from Montserrat in Italic
- Decomposed components in some Cyrillic glyphs

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.118 (in no particular order):


- Re-imported question mark from Montserrat, then modified it
and exclam
- Centered layer in periodcentered in Italic
- Some fixes in Greek
- Added centered colon for time display

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.119 to v3.120 (in no particular order):


- New peseta sign
- Fixed some off-center accents
- Fixed 'a' in Italic

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.121 to v3.122 (in no particular order):


- New '1'
- Fixed some more off-center accents

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.123 to v3.125 (in no particular order):


- Flattened height of old-style figures
- Equalized sidebearings of tabular old-style figures
- Imported '1' from Jones font

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.126 (in no particular order):


- New iota-grek
- New ampersand from https://github.com/TaniaChacana/Montserrat-Customization
As a result, old ampersand becomes ss06
- New, class-based true ligatures

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.127 (in no particular order):


- New '5' and '7'
- Fixed some more off-center diacritics
- Fixed brevecyrcomb in Ucyr and ishortcyr
- Fixed ampersand
- Some more adjusts in Italic 'a'
- Added double 'f' ligature in class-based ligatures

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.128 (in no particular order):


- Re-added all Unicode support from U+1E00 to U+1E9B & U+1E9E
- Some fixes in localized Cyrillic for Serbian & Bulgarian

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.129 (in no particular order):


- New '3', '4', & '5'

Changelog of Argentum Sans, v3.132 (in no particular order):


- New '5', tilde, & question mark

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