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Current versions

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Change history

1 Feb 2023 (SIL WSTech Team) Lisu Bosa version 2.000

  • First release of complete families

5 Jan 2023 (SIL WSTech Team) Lisu Bosa Test F version 1.980 (beta3)

  • Renamed “Lt” family to “Lolo”
  • Fixed space widths
  • Improved font metadata
  • Improved line spacing

25 Mar 2022 (SIL WSTech Team) Lisu Bosa Test E version 1.950 (beta2)

  • Improved spacing and added kerning
  • Made bold weights bolder
  • Revised to be an axis-based single family
  • Added separately-packaged lighter-weight “Lt” family with only R and B weights
  • Added U+11FB0 LISU LETTER YHA
  • Includes WOFF/WOFF2 versions of axis-based family
  • Draft of updated documentation
  • Test version only

23 Nov 2021 (SIL WSTech Team) Lisu Bosa Test D version 1.930 (beta)

  • Revised name
  • Full set of weights in both Upright and Italic styles
  • Spacing of italic weights still needs refinement
  • Test version only

31 Mar 2021 (SIL WSTech Team) Bosa Lisu Test A version 1.910

  • Initial test version of only normal Regular and Italic weights
  • New design and production workflow based on fully open source toolkit
  • New italic prototype for review
  • Italic punctuation not fully drafted

17 Jul 2019 (SIL WSTech Team) Lisu New version 1.900

  • Started new project based on LisuTzimu Regular

20 Feb 2018 (Martin Hosken) LisuTzimu version 1.400

  • Published on github