Unfortunately, the license permits the use of the font only for "non-commercial" purposes, which means that it cannot be included in Free Software distributions.
In 2 days Lithuania will celebrate 100 years of independence (apart from a 50 year intermission of Soviet occupation).<p>The release of this font is connected to the celebration.
I'm curious about this -<p>> While typing, you will notice that it is a much more sophisticated handwritten font than others. Spaces between words will not be perfectly identical, and the same two words when typed next to each will not look the same either, thus giving an impression that the text is actually written by hand.<p>How is this accomplished? I assume there's a ligature for spaces depending on the preceding character - but how does one randomise the ligatures between pairs of characters?
Love stuff like this.<p>The demonstration text on the web site omits Q, but it exists in the actual font file. Maybe there's no Q in Lithuanian?<p>Too bad about the license, or I'd use it for lots of things. Though I think Millennials who weren't taught cursive writing may have trouble with capital i and both z's.
I was immediately disappointed by not being able to write my name (with ú and Á).
It can work for Lithuanian, German, English, but not other languages that use different diacritics, as it doesn't have any others (accute, grave, circumflex, tilde, etc).
It would be interesting to automate the creation of fonts from historical documents by training CNNs to extract suitable sample letters and transform them.<p>That wouldn't be a replacement for serious projects like this, where an actual typographer was paid to work for 160 hours. But it could be fun to try lots of documents and see how the fonts they yield vary.