{"id":255,"date":"2015-09-17T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\/?page_id=255"},"modified":"2023-02-22T17:18:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T17:18:36","slug":"design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\/design\/","title":{"rendered":"Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruwudu is the Manga word for &#8220;writing&#8221;. This style of writing is used by the Manga people in Niger, West Africa. This font was initially designed as a lighter or companion version of <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\/\">Alkalami Regular<\/a>. The design is still very much influenced by the Rubutun Kano style, but was based on samples of footnotes from the market edition manuscripts. These were made with a monoline tool, likely a ball point pen or something similar. The extreme swashes and tails of Alkalami are replaced by more classic and reserved shapes.<\/p>\n<p>Four weights for this typeface family are included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ruwudu Regular<\/li>\n<li>Ruwudu Medium<\/li>\n<li>Ruwudu SemiBold<\/li>\n<li>Ruwudu Bold<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Type Samples<\/h2>\n<p>Type samples showing some of the inventory of glyphs can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"sample\">Ruwudu Type Sample<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of some text is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img class='fullsize' alt='Ruwudu Sample - Four weights' src='https:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/02\/weights.png' \/><br \/>\n<em>Ruwudu Sample &#8211; Four weights<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img class='fullsize' alt='Ruwudu Sample - Genesis 11' src='https:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2023\/02\/RuwuduGen11-BoldRegular.png' \/><br \/>\n<em>Ruwudu Sample &#8211; Genesis 11<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Character Set<\/h2>\n<p>For a complete list of characters included in this font, see <a href=\"charset\">Character Set Support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Font Features<\/h2>\n<p>Alternate glyphs that are available through features are demonstrated in the <a href=\"features\">Features<\/a> document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruwudu is the Manga word for &#8220;writing&#8221;. This style of writing is used by the Manga people in Niger, West Africa. This font was initially designed as a lighter or companion version of Alkalami Regular. The design is still very much influenced by the Rubutun Kano style, but was based on samples of footnotes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":79,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}