UnifrakturMaguntia, a Unicode Fraktur Font

On this page:

Download and Installation
@font-face embedding
About the Font
Comparison of different versions
Features
- Feature compilations in ready-to-use variant fonts

Download and Installation

The latest release of UnifrakturMaguntia is UnifrakturMaguntia.2017年03月19日.zip. For other releases, browse http://sourceforge.net/projects/unifraktur/files/fonts/.

For installation, doubleclick the TTF file that is included in the ZIP archive, and your OS should ask you whether you want to install the font.

@font-face embedding

Since this font is available at Adobe Edge Web Fonts, you can easily embed it on your internet site.

The safest way to embed the font is by placing the following line of code at the beginning of the <head> tag of your HTML code:

<script src="//use.edgefonts.net/unifrakturmaguntia:n4:all.js"></script>

After that, you may use the font name UnifrakturMaguntia in subsequent CSS definitions, for instance like this:

p {
 font-family: UnifrakturMaguntia;
}

Or like that:

<p style="font-family: UnifrakturMaguntia">Your text</p>

About the Font

UnifrakturMaguntia is based on Peter Wiegel’s font Berthold Mainzer Fraktur. The main differences from Peter Wiegel’s font are the following:

UnifrakturMaguntia uses OpenType for displaying the font’s ligatures.
UnifrakturMaguntia is suitable for @font-face embedding on the internet. It has a permissive license, the OFL, that explicitly allows font embedding.
G. Ansmann has carefully redrawn all glyphs and significantly expanded the font.

For an extensive documentation created by G. Ansmann, see UnifrakturMaguntia, Manual (with General Rules for Typesetting Fraktur), or UnifrakturMaguntia, Manual (with General Rules for Typesetting Fraktur).

This font has been edited with FontForge, the free outline font editor.

Comparison of different versions

Version	Sample phrase
2016年02月21日	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2016年02月18日	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2014年07月06日	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2013年08月21日	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2012年10月19日	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2012年10月19日†	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2012年10月17日	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2012年10月17日†	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2012年07月26日†	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2012年07月21日†	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2012年02月11日	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2010年11月24日*	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2010年11月24日	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2010年08月17日	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2010年07月21日	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone
2010年06月19日	sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone – sit‍zt falsche Zeit‌zone

* Google Font API distribution.

† Built with ttfautohint.

Here is what the sample phrase should look like. It is a screenshot from Firefox 15.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.8:

UnifrakturMaguntia sample phrase screenshot

The sample phrase uses the following code:

sit&zwj;zt falsche Zeit&zwnj;zone

This allows the testing of several features:

Are required ligatures (such as ‹tz›) displayed? They should always be displayed, irrespective of the letterspacing.
Are normal ligatures (such as ‹si›) displayed correctly? They should only be displayed when the letterspacing is normal.
Does the &zwj; trigger a ligature?
Does the &zwnj; inhibit a ligature?
Remain &zwj; and &zwnj; non-spacing when letterspacing is increased?

Features

This is an overview of the OpenType Layout features that are implemented in UnifrakturMaguntia 2016年02月18日. Some features are assigned both as character variants and as stylistic sets. The reason is that stylistic sets are more accessible through current software, while semantically, character variants are more sensible in these cases. The automatic conversion of s into s, for instance, is assigned both to cv11 and to ss11. The exact configuration of the features may be subject to changes in future versions of the font.

Feature	Code		Sample
Feature	CSS	XeLaTeX	Sample
Modern forms	`"ss01"`	`StylisticSet=1`	ASVYksxy → ASVYksxy
Historic u and v	`"ss02"`	`StylisticSet=2`	Und bevor → Und bevor
Historic i and j	`"ss03"`	`StylisticSet=3`	Ist bejaht → Ist bejaht
Modern k	`"cv01"`	`CharacterVariant=1`	kann → kann
Modern x	`"cv02"`	`CharacterVariant=2`	Axt → Axt
Modern x (var)	`"cv02" 2`	`CharacterVariant=2:1`	Axt → Axt
Modern y	`"cv03"`	`CharacterVariant=3`	Mythen → Mythen
Modern A	`"cv04"`	`CharacterVariant=4`	Art → Art
Modern A (var)	`"cv04" 2`	`CharacterVariant=4:1`	Art → Art
Modern G	`"cv05"`	`CharacterVariant=5`	Glanz → Glanz
Modern K	`"cv06"`	`CharacterVariant=6`	Kohl → Kohl
Modern N	`"cv07"`	`CharacterVariant=7`	Nacht → Nacht
Modern S	`"cv08"`	`CharacterVariant=8`	Sinn → Sinn
Modern V	`"cv09"`	`CharacterVariant=9`	Vogel → Vogel
Modern Y	`"cv10"`	`CharacterVariant=10`	Yak → Yak
Long s	`"cv11"`	`CharacterVariant=11`	schönstes → schönstes
Long s	`"ss11"`	`StylisticSet=11`	schönstes → schönstes
Round r	`"cv12"`	`CharacterVariant=12`	error → error
Round r	`"ss12"`	`StylisticSet=12`	error → error
I → J	`"cv13"`	`CharacterVariant=13`	Igel → Igel
I → J	`"ss13"`	`StylisticSet=13`	Igel → Igel
ÄÖÜ → ÄÖÜ	`"cv14"`	`CharacterVariant=14`	Ärger → Ärger
ÄÖÜ → ÄÖÜ	`"ss14"`	`StylisticSet=14`	Ärger → Ärger
Diaeresis → small e	`"cv15"`	`CharacterVariant=15`	schön Üben → schön Üben
Diaeresis → small e	`"ss15"`	`StylisticSet=15`	schön Üben → schön Üben
šśŝṡs̈ → with tail	`"cv16"`	`CharacterVariant=16`	šśŝṡs̈ → šśŝṡs̈
šśŝṡs̈ → with tail	`"ss16"`	`StylisticSet=16`	šśŝṡs̈ → šśŝṡs̈
šśŝ → with s	`"cv17"`	`CharacterVariant=17`	šśŝ → šśŝ
šśŝ → with s	`"ss17"`	`StylisticSet=17`	šśŝ → šśŝ
Other ďť	`"cv18"`	`CharacterVariant=18`	ďť → ďť
Other ďť	`"ss18"`	`StylisticSet=18`	ďť → ďť
Wide –	`"cv19"`	`CharacterVariant=19`	– → –
Wide –	`"ss19"`	`StylisticSet=19`	– → –
Swashless s (not final)	`"cv20"`	`CharacterVariant=20`	schönstes → schönstes
Swashless s (not final)	`"ss20"`	`StylisticSet=20`	schönstes → schönstes
Alternative ś	`"cv21"`	`CharacterVariant=21`	ś → ś
Alternative ś (var)	`"cv21" 2`	`CharacterVariant=21:1`	ś → ś
Alternative ŝ	`"cv22"`	`CharacterVariant=22`	ŝ → ŝ
Alternative ŝ (var)	`"cv22" 2`	`CharacterVariant=22:1`	ŝ → ŝ
Alternative š	`"cv23"`	`CharacterVariant=23`	š → š
Alternative š (var 1)	`"cv23" 2`	`CharacterVariant=23:1`	š → š
Alternative š (var 2)	`"cv23" 3`	`CharacterVariant=23:2`	š → š
Alternative š (var 3)	`"cv23" 4`	`CharacterVariant=23:3`	š → š
Alternative š (var 4)	`"cv23" 5`	`CharacterVariant=23:4`	š → š
Alternative ṡ	`"cv24"`	`CharacterVariant=24`	ṡ → ṡ
Alternative s̈	`"cv25"`	`CharacterVariant=25`	s̈ → s̈
Alternative ď	`"cv26"`	`CharacterVariant=26`	ď → ď
Alternative ť	`"cv27"`	`CharacterVariant=27`	ť → ť
Stroke ligature (on ll and ss)	`"cv28"`	`CharacterVariant=28`	łł ẜẜ → łł ẜẜ
s → s	`"cv40"`	`CharacterVariant=40`	s → s
	`"ss10"`	`StylisticSet=10`	s → s
	`"cv00"`	`CharacterVariant=0`	s → s
Historic etc.	`"hlig"`	`Ligatures=Historic`	etc. → etc.
mm and nn abbreviation	`"dlig"`	`Ligatures=Rare`	mm nn → mm nn
Monospaced numbers	`"tnum"`	`Numbers=Monospaced`	12345 → 12345
Uppercase numbers	`"lnum"`	`Numbers=Uppercase`	12345 → 12345
Common ligatures**	`"liga"`	`Ligatures=Common`	hat‌te → hatte
Required ligatures**	`"ccmp"`	(always on)	Schat‌z → Schatz
No common ligatures	`"liga" off`	`Ligatures=NoCommon`	hatte → hatte

** These features should be activated by default. Their explicit activation should (theoretically) not be required.

A CSS setting – for instance for the long s – may look as follows:

-moz-font-feature-settings: "cv01";
-webkit-font-feature-settings: "cv01";
-ms-font-feature-settings: "cv01";
font-feature-settings: "cv01";

Setting the features in XeLaTeX requires the package fontspec. One possibility of setting the features may be seen in the file UnifrakturMaguntia_2016年02月18日_features.tex, which produces UnifrakturMaguntia_2016年02月18日_features.pdf.

Feature compilations in ready-to-use variant fonts

An increasing number of applications is able to display advanced OpenType features. However, the interface for switching on particular features can be very complicated, and some applications lack such an interface altogether. Therefore, we offer the following ready-to-use variant fonts. In each of them, a compilation of features from the normal UnifrakturMaguntia font is switched on by default and hard-wired, if possible. Thus, the actual display relies less on the displaying software’s advanced OpenType abilities, and you do not have to switch the features on by yourself.

The names of these ready-to-use variant fonts approximately correspond to the century when the respective compilation of features was used. For instance, the font UnifrakturMaguntia18 attempts to emulate the typesetting conventions of the 18th century.

Versions	Feature	Sample
21	Modern forms (`ss01`)	ASVYksxy → ASVYksxy
16, 17, 18, 19, 20	Long s (`cv11`)	schönstes → schönstes
	Wide – (`cv19`)	– → –
	Uppercase numbers (`lnum`)	12345 → 12345
16, 17, 18, 19	I → J (`cv13`)	Igel → Igel
	ÄÖÜ → ÄÖÜ (`cv14`)	Ärger → Ärger
	Historic etc. (`hlig`)	etc. → etc.
16, 17, 18	Diaeresis → small e (`cv15`)	schön Üben → schön Üben
16, 17	Historic u and v (`ss02`)	Und bevor → Und bevor
16	Round r (`cv12`)	error → error