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1 | [Jost*](http://indestructible-type.github.io/Jost.html) |
| 2 | ======== | |
| 3 |  | |
| 4 | Jost* is an original font created by indestructible type*. It is inspired by | |
| 5 | the 1920s German sans-serifs. This is version 3.5. | |
| 6 | ||
| 7 | Jost* is designed and maintained by [Owen Earl](https://ewonrael.github.io/), who is the creator of the font foundry [indestructible type*](http://indestructible-type.github.io). | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | About | |
| 10 | ----- | |
| 11 | During the 1920s there was a radical shift in German sans serif letterforms. A marriage between the | |
| 12 | precise geometry of earlier German sans serifs with the clean legibility of the humanists coming out of | |
| 13 | England, yielded a geometric sans serif that is so iconic that it still looks as futuristic and forward- | |
| 14 | thinking as it did almost 100 years ago. Jost* is an ode to this era of type design. Instead of trying to | |
| 15 | recreate it precisely, Jost* aims to capture the spirit, using the technologies of today. | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | Jost* has 9 weights, ranging from Hairline to Black. It can support many languages, includes stylistic | |
| 18 | alternatives, and both tabular and proportional numbers. Using Jost* on the web is as easy as copying a | |
| 19 | line of code into your webpage and includes automatic updates. As of version 3.0, Jost* supports OpenType | |
| 20 | Variable Font technology that allows users to control the exact weight and italic of the font. Best of all | |
| 21 | Jost* is still being actively developed meaning it will continue to improve and future updates may include | |
| 22 | features requested by you! [Visit the website for more information!](http://indestructibletype.com/Jost) | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 |  | |
| 25 | ||
| 26 | Changelog | |
| 27 | --------- | |
| 28 | <b>2.0</b> | |
| 29 | Rebuilt from the ground up.<br> | |
| 30 | <b>2.1</b> | |
| 31 | Added oe ligatures to support French, fixed some italics<br> | |
| 32 | <b>2.2 </b> | |
| 33 | Added alternative a, fixed some kerning, fixed overshoot in bolder weights, added thin version!<br> | |
| 34 | <b>2.3 </b> | |
| 35 | Fixed missing kerning information on Book, Medium, and Bold weights<br> | |
| 36 | <b>3.0 </b> | |
| 37 | Redesigned and rebuilt to work as an OpenType Variable Font. Added Hairline, Semi, and Heavy weights. Added tabular number alternatives. Improved language support. General fixing of things.<br> | |
| 38 | <b>3.1 </b> | |
| 39 | Fixed metadata and metric issues<br> | |
| 40 | <b>3.2 </b> | |
| 41 | Renamed font from "Renner\*" to "Jost\*" due to international intellectual property rights concerns. Fixed some kerning issues, added capital sharp S, added Polish glyphs. Minor design fixes.<br> | |
| 42 | <b>3.3 </b> | |
| 43 | Added optical compensation to italics. Added Czech support. Minor tweaks and fixes.<br> | |
| 44 | <b>3.4 </b> | |
| 45 | Added Cyrillic alphabet (Russian support). Fixed metadata issues and added Romanian support.<br> | |
| 46 | <b>3.5 </b> | |
| 47 | Added some math symbols. Improved letterforms. Improved GitHub repo. Added automated build.sh script. | |
| 48 | ||
| 49 | Web Use | |
| 50 | ------- | |
| 51 | To use on your webpage, simply put the following line of code into the `<head>` of the webpage you'd like to display Jost* and use `font-family: 'Jost';` in your css.<br> | |
| 52 | `<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://indestructibletype.com/fonts/Jost.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8" />` | |
| 53 | ||
| 54 | Building the Variable Font. | |
| 55 | --------------------------- | |
| 56 | Jost* is licensed under the [SIL open type license](http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL), meaning that it is free to use and modify. However, because of the difficulty | |
| 57 | associated with creating the OpenType Variable Font features, the compliled, functoning version of this font | |
| 58 | requires a payment of $10 or more on the website. However, if you'd like to build this font yourself using | |
| 59 | the source code, the follow the following instructions. | |
| 60 | ||
| 61 | 1. Download the complete source code, either by cloning this repository or downloading the .zip file. | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | 2. Download and install:<br> | |
| 64 | **fontmake** which can be found [here](https://github.com/googlei18n/fontmake)<br> | |
| 65 | **gftools** which can be found [here](https://github.com/googlefonts/gftools)<br> | |
| 66 | **ttfautohint** which can be found [here](https://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/)<br> | |
| 67 | ||
| 68 | 3. Run the build.sh script located in the "scripts" folder. This should make both the variable and non-variable versions of the font. | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | Contact | |
| 71 | ------- | |
| 72 | If you have questions or want to help out, send me and email at indestructibletype@gmail.com |