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BJCree font family
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The **BJCree** (*'Baie-James'* [James Bay] Cree) font is a Canadian Syllabics font in the style preferred by Cree and Naskapi communities of Canada located around James Bay. It supports the full range of Algonquian (Cree and Ojibwa) languages. This is a new version of an older ‘shareware’ font, improved and updated to support a wide range of uses, from print to web.

The **BJCree** typeface was originally designed in conjunction with the Naskapi community in the 1990s. When it was subsequently re-encoded for Unicode, coverage was extended for all the Cree (and Ojibwa) languages. Thus, all the “Algonquian” language family languages that use Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics are covered by the BJCree glyph inventory. That is, Plains Cree [crk], Woods Cree [cwd], Swampy Cree [csw], Moose Cree [crm], East Cree Southern [crj], East Cree Northern [crl], Naskapi [nsk], Severn Ojibwe (Oji-Cree) [ojs], and Northwestern Ojibwe [ojb].

Four fonts from this typeface family are included in this release:

* BJCree Regular
* BJCree Medium
* BJCree SemiBold
* BJCree Bold

# Documentation

For copyright and licensing - including any Reserved Font Names - see [OFL.txt](OFL.txt).

For practical information about using, modifying and redistributing this font see [OFL-FAQ.txt](OFL-FAQ.txt).

For more details about this project, including changelog and acknowledgements see [FONTLOG.txt](FONTLOG.txt).
