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| license = [[SIL Open Font License|OFL]]

| sample = [[Image:Junicode sample.svg|240px|Junicode sample text]]

| releasedate = {{release date and age|2017|09|1618|df=yes}} (1.00RC4000)

| creationdate = 2001

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Junicode contains many special characters and [[typographic ligature|ligatures]] for [[medievalist]]s, along with numerous other [[Unicode]] glyphs. The font has [[OpenType]] features for advanced [[typesetting]] and includes true [[small caps]].

The most recent revision of Junicode is 1.000RC4000, released on 1618 September 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/junicode/files/junicode/junicode-1.000RC4/|title=Release Name: junicode-1.000RC4|date=2017-09-16|accessdate=2017-09-23}}</ref>

==Design==

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==Origins and uses==

The Junicode font was developed especially for medievalists, due to the need for a font to cover the large number of special characters and ligatures used in medieval [[manuscript]]s. The font has complete support for the [[Medieval Unicode Font Initiative]] version 14.0, andin nearlythe completeregular supportand foritalic version 2.0faces.

Despite the specialization of Junicode for the needs of medievalists, the font is quite complete and supports a large number of Unicode characters. In the regular style, over 3000 characters are available. This makes Junicode useful for a wide range of languages that utilize the [[Latin alphabet]], including scholarly texts and publications that require special [[diacritics]] not traditionally found in conventional fonts. It exists in regular, italic, bold and bold italic styles, with the regular style having the largest character set. Regular and bold styles have [[small caps]] and all styles have [[Swash (typography)|swash]] alternates, although not a complete set of italic swash capitals.

Junicode has a very wide linespacing in many applications (itdue wasto designedits fornumerous use in [[LaTeX]], which may limit itstall usecharacters forwith general-purposestacked typesettingdiacritics.

==Availability and development==

Junicode is free and [[open source]] software licensed under the [[SIL Open Font License]], and is released in the [[TrueType]] format, which is used on most [[operating system]]s. Additionally, specific packages for Junicode are available for open source systems such as [[Debian]], [[Ubuntu (operating system)|Ubuntu]], and [[FreeBSD]].

The Junicode font is developed in the [[FontForge]] typeface editing program. The font includes TrueType [[font hinting|hinting]], and the hinting instructions are developed in [[XML]] files usedgenerated by the [[Xgridfit]] application, which developers use to generate low-level TrueType hintingttfautohint instructionsprogram.

==See also==