Andika (typeface)

AndikaCategory| Sans-serif

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Designer(s)| Victor Gaultney
Commissioned by| SIL International
Date released| 2008
License| SIL Open Font License
Variations| Andika, Andika Compact, Andika New Basic,
Sample
Website| software.sil.org/andika/

Andika (/ænˈdiːkə/, from the verb root for 'to write' in Swahili) is a sans-serif typeface developed by SIL International for the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts. It is designed for literacy programs and beginning readers, but also has support for IPA transcription and a large number of diacritics. The font offers four family members: roman, bold, italic and bold italic.

Andika supports OpenType and AAT technologies for advanced rendering features. It is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL),[1] and can be downloaded free of charge.[2]

Version 6.2 of the font includes over 3,800 glyphs, including stylistic variants and ligatures.[3] Stylistic variants include primer-style forms of letters such as a, g and t and the digit 4. The Andika New Basic variant has a reduced number of characters and a significantly smaller file size.

Andika font with 'a' and 'g' set to traditional style Two font features selected

Variant forms of many characters can be chosen in the word-processor. For example, for non-primer-style 'a' and 'g', append `ss01=1` to the name of the font in the font-selection window.[4] (Features are appended with a colon and linked with an ampersand; see images at left.) Alternatively, customized versions of the fonts can be created with TypeTuner, prior to download, that have those forms preset.[5] Features that may be chosen include two-storey 'a', loop-tail 'g', open-top '4', barred '7', 'i' and 'l' with a bottom curl, variant forms of capital 'Ŋ', capital 'Q' with a crossing tail, primer-style 't', 'y' with a straight tail, Vietnamese-style diacritics, Serbian-style italics in Cyrillic, staveless tone letters, slashed zero and automatic fractions.[4]

## References

1. ↑ "SIL Open Font License (OFL)". http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL.
2. ↑ "Download - Andika - Andika" (in en-US). 2014-10-02. https://software.sil.org/andika/download/.
3. ↑ "Character Set Support - Andika". https://software.sil.org/andika/support/character-set-support/.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Andika: features
5. ↑ TypeTuner Web homepage

## External links

* Andika homepage
* TypeTuner Web homepage

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