Unpackaged Open Font of the Week: Cyklop


Cyklop is a high-contrast sans-serif font. Because this font is so bold and has such high contrast, it would work well in treatments where you would like to call attention to some particular piece of information. For example, if you were designing a poster to hang up on a bulletin board and wanted to catch the attention of passers by – try using Cyklop with a catchy phrase in a large point size on the page.
Thanks goes to Janusz Marian Nowacki for creating the font from the historical typeface design – the typeface was designed in the 1920s – “at the workshop of Warsaw type foundry “Odlewnia Czcionek J. Idzkowski i S-ka” according to the upstream homepage. I do get a 1920’s vibe from it, but it also kind of reminds me of a retro view of the future (thus the ‘outer space!’ type sample I came up with. 🙂 ) Hopefully this isn’t too terrible an abuse of the typeface.
Many of you have asked for some notes on the font coverage in these posts. Cyklop has some coverage beyond basic Latin – the Latin Supplementary coverage is quite good and the the Latin Extended A coverage is not too bad either.

So, you want to package Cyklop?

Wonderful! You’re amazing! You’ll want to follow the first steps here next to the ‘if you intend to do some packaging’ header:

Our fonts packaging policy, which the above refers to, is documented here:

And if you have any questions throughout the process, don’t hesitate to ask on the Fedora Fonts SIG mailing list:

Previously-Featured Fonts Updates

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These fonts were previously highlighted but still need your love so they can be packaged!

5 Comments

  1. imonkeys says:

    How can I visually browse all fonts in Fedora? (before installing them).

    1. All the fonts in Fedora are listed here:
      http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Packaged_f
      We don't have screenshots of all of them though. Would you be interested in helping us take them and filing them there?

  2. Hi Máirín,
    If you want to check the coverage of a font quickly you can do
    FC_DEBUG=256 fc-query font-file
    … and look at the language list at the beginnging of the output file ( foo(x) means x glyphs are missing for foo support so you want the entries with a zero number)

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