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Andika (typeface)

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Andika
CategorySans-serif
Designer(s)Victor Gaultney
Commissioned bySIL International
Date released2008
LicenseSIL Open Font License
VariationsAndika, Andika Compact, Andika New Basic,
Sample
Websitesoftware.sil.org/andika/

Andika /ænˈdkə/, from the word for 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 Graphite, 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 5.000 of the font, with over 3,800 glyphs are included, including stylistic variants and ligatures.[3] Stylistic variants include primer-style forms of letters such as a, g and t. The Andika New Basic variant has a reduced number of characters and a significantly smaller file size.

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