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Oski Dene Chipewyan font

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Description

Oski Dene is a member of the Oski Series of Unicode fonts. Oski is a Cree prefix meaning “New”, which reflects the modern look to the syllabics. There are several aspects which make this font specially suited for the Dene languages:

  • The syllabics are sized more proportionately.
  • Some of the syllabics shapes are in a more old-style.
  • The finals are sized and positioned appropriately.
  • There are OpenType tables that will position the finals properly. Any final followed by a superscript ² will be placed mid-line; any final followed by a superscript ³ will be placed at the base line.

This family contains specially made Italic, Bold, and Bold-Italic fonts, giving a much more attractive document than when a word-processor attempts to italicise a regular font.

This font conforms to the Chipewyan Dene syllabics writing system employed by the English Anglican missionaries.

It was created by Christopher Harvey.

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Characteristics

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Languagegeek TTF with OpenType tables GPLv3 with font exception ④ ⑤ ⑥
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Style Faces Scripts
Sans Serif Other R B I BI Other Latin Greek Cyrillic Other
Variable Monospace Variable Monospace
✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ ✘ Chipewyan

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