Hundar aims to provide a comprehensive set of free and open-source fonts designed specifically for article and book writing, catering to the needs of academics and specialists in diverse areas.
To date, there isn’t a single open-source typeface coming with multiple optical sizes, having extensive language coverage and support for specialist usage in mathematics, phonetics, and medieval studies. The purpose of Hundar is to fill this gap.
To this end, Hundar must fulfill the following set of goals.
Hundar is licensed under the SIL Open Font License. This means in particular that it is free for anyone to use and will forever remain so.
Hundar has to cover a very wide range of languages, covering all languages using the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts listed in Hyperglot.
Hundar must come with a satisfactory number of optical sizes, going all the way from the smallest footnotes (~5 pt), through body text (10~12 pt) and headlines (~24 pt), all the way to book covers (≥ 48 pt).
Hundar must have extensive coverage for linguistics usage, including the IPA, americanist phonetic notation, the extIPA, etc.
Hundar must have extensive coverage for medievalist usage as defined by the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative.
Hundar must come with an extensive, high-quality family of math fonts of matching style, together with an accompanying LaTeX package.