2026-02-11 (SIL WSTech team) BJCree version 7.000

• Released under the SIL Open Font License version 1.1
• Changed to UFO-based workflow with sources available on Github
• Significant improvements to diacritic placement, letter spacing, and line spacing
• Added new characters:
  • U+142E ᐮ an-cans
  • U+142D ᐭ on-cans
  • U+1544 ᕄ leWestCree-cans
  • U+154A ᕊ loWestCree-cans
  • U+154D ᕍ laWestCree-cans
  • U+155F ᕟ theNCree-cans
  • U+1561 ᕡ thiNCree-cans
  • U+1563 ᕣ thiiNCree-cans
• Replaced Latin glyphs with new design based on C059 (New Century Schoolbook) from (URW)++, released under the SIL Open Font License version 1.1.

April 2022

• Added new characters: U+15A7..U+167E, U+18B0..U+18B5

26-Mar-2007 v 2.2

• Update

13-May-2005 v 2.0

• Update

2002

• “BJCree UNI” widely released

Jan-2000 v2.00

• BJECree and BJWCree released

Approximately 1999

• Converted the font to Unicode
• Renamed the new font “BJCree UNI” (bjcrus.ttf and bjcrusb.ttf)
• Released as ‘shareware’ under copyright by Bill Jancewicz

1990s

• BJCree (Baye-James Cree) font created by Bill Jancewicz to serve the Eastern Cree communities.