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The Brill is considerably different than , which has been available for some time and was aimed at helping users of Brill’s online reference works. Brill Online is based on v. 1.00 of the . The glyph set was extended to support some very rare characters, such as . “In essence it became a hybrid Latin-Greek-Cyrillic-IPA and ‘pi’ font family.”

The Brill is available now in roman and italic styles. Bold and bold italic versions will be released later this year, probably before July.

Even better, the Brill is free for non-commercial use. You can . (See the bottom of that page and then the bottom of the page that follows.)

In total, the Brill contains more than 5,100 characters. And that already immense range can be extended through combining diacritics, as noted above.

Instead of limiting the fontsпІп‚Б„ў character set to known characters and character-plus-diacritic combinations, we chose a dynamic model in which, using OpenType GPOS features, any base character can carry any diacritic above or below it, and in which diacritics can be stacked as wellпІп‚БЂ«not forgetting all the precomposed characters that are already present in the Unicode Standard, of course. Finally, a huge assortment of punctuation marks, editorial marks, and other symbols known to occur in Brill publications were added to the spec.

Brill — a Leiden-based publisher of work in the humanities, social sciences, law, and science — has released “the Brill,” a new font family designed to support the Latin and Greek scripts “to the fullest extent possible.” IPA and the Slavic parts of the Cyrillic range are also covered. This can handle the needs of just about any romanized script, including Hanyu Pinyin.

Some of the Pinyin-friendly font families I provide examples of on this blog are fun but not exactly the sort of thing you’d want to use in a book or other serious project. Others, though, are solid examples of the subtle and exacting art of type design. Today’s entry belongs in the latter group.

is a Pinyin-friendly script font. It’s free for personal use and US$11 for commercial use.