1  FONTLOG for Workplace Sans
This file provides detailed information on the Workplace Sans Font Software.
This information should be distributed along with the Workplace Sans fonts
and any derivative works.


2  Basic Font Information
Workplace Sans is a semi-condensed sans-serif font, inspired by the OS/2 bitmap
font "WarpSans". Intended primarily for use as a user interface font, it has 
been designed to resemble WarpSans as much as reasonably possible when 
displayed on-screen at comparable sizes.

More information can be found at:
http://users.socis.ca/~ataylo00/creative/fonts/workplace/#wpsu


3  ChangeLog

29 May 2011 (Alex Taylor) - Workplace Sans 0.81
- Minor changes to several character shapes, in particular 'a', 'w', 'R'.
- Fractionally widened the number characters.
- A couple of additional characters added.
- Non-bitmap versions are now built with TypeTool version 3; to avoid the
  previously-encountered difficulties with this version, TrueType font metrics
  are now set manually instead of automatically calculated, and the font width
  class is set to "normal" instead of "semi-condensed".
- Font is no longer auto-hinted on build: the hinting was observed to cause
  rounded glyphs to appear too tall on some point sizes.  With antialiasing 
  the hinting is not really necessary, and without antialiasing the bitmapped
  versions are recommended anyway.
- (Bold) Bitmap version now includes Cyrillic.

10 January 2011 (Alex Taylor) - Workplace Sans 0.8
- Unified the version number (currently 0.8) for all weights.
- Increased caps height from 685 to 700 upm throughout.
- Major reworking of many glyph shapes, especially Greek and Cyrillic.
- Redesigned and unified many of the diacritical marks.
- More tweaks to the glyph spacing.
- Many characters have been (at least temporarily) removed due to the
  ongoing design changes.  This includes most arrow, block, box-drawing
  and graphic characters, various math and symbol characters, several
  diacritics, much of the Latin-2 and Baltic section, and all of the
  Hebrew and Japanese characters.
- (Normal) New Regular weight implemented with wider 80upm strokes throughout.
- (Light) Renamed original light-weight version to "Workplace Sans Light";
  strokes fractionally widened (50 to 60 upm).
- (Bold) Completely redesigned and reimplemented the Bold weight.

4 July 2010 (Alex Taylor) Workplace Sans 0.71 / Workplace Sans Bold 0.4
- (Normal) Tweaks to a number of glyph shapes, in particular the 1 and the 7.
  The uppercase P has a slightly wider loop as well.
- (Normal) Re-tuned the glyph spacing throughout (left/right lead now 70/65pem 
  for upper/lower-case letters).  In addition, combined (diacritical) forms 
  should now be spaced more consistently.
- (Bold) Major update: widened all strokes to more accurately represent the 
  'bold' nature of the font.
- (Bold) Reworked a large number of glyph shapes, in particular adding subtle 
  curves to the ends of the C and S characters, plus various improvements to 
  other glyphs throughout the font (too many to list).
- (Bold) Added a number of new glyphs, mostly Latin-2 and Baltic.
- (EXPERIMENTAL) Now providing alternative builds which include embedded
  bitmaps.

25 November 2009 (Alex Taylor) Workplace Sans 0.7 / Workplace Sans Bold 0.3
- Added several hundred new characters; highlights include:
  . (Normal) Latin Extended A block is now complete
  . (Normal) Hiragana and Katakana
  . (Normal) Fullwidth ASCII characters
  . (Normal) Various symbols, diacritics and punctuation marks
  . (Normal) A couple of missing characters in Greek and Cyrillic
  . (Bold) Codepage 437 support is now complete
  . (Bold) Cyrillic, Greek, various new accents and other symbols
- (Normal) Improved the shape of the uppercase 'W' by narrowing it slightly.
- Fixed a couple of errors in OS2EUGL cmap related to the missing Greek/
  Cyrillic characters.
- Many minor tweaks and improvements (too numerous to list).

11 November 2009 (Alex Taylor) Workplace Sans 0.6 / Workplace Sans Bold 0.2
- First OFL-licensed release.
- Implemented major rework of font design goals; see website for details.
- (Normal) Tightened glyph spacing (left/right lead is now 65/60pem for 
  upper/lower-case letters instead of 80).
- (Bold) Tightened glyph spacing (left/right lead is now 75/70pem for 
  upper/lower-case letters instead of 80).



4  Acknowledgements
(If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E),
web-address (W) and description (D). This list is sorted by last name in
alphabetical order.)

N: Alex Taylor
E: alex@altsan.org
W: http://users.socis.ca/~ataylo00/creative/fonts/
D: Designer/Creator

