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Alcarin Tengwar Alcarin Tengwar is a Tengwar typeface designed to pair well with the Brill typeface; Tengwar is an fictional writing system invented b
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Alcarin Tengwar

Alcarin Tengwar is a Tengwar typeface designed to pair well with the Brill typeface; Tengwar is an fictional writing system invented by J.R.R. Tolkien, used in his Lord Of The Rings works.

It is designed to look more typographic and of high quality, with academic context in mind. It works best with Brill, but can work with other roman typefaces. More detailed design notes can be seen here.

The word 'alcarin' means 'brilliant' in the Quenya language, the High-Elven language by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Alcarin Tengwar is released under Open Font License 1.1.

Contents

  • Font Source: Glyphs 2 font source file as well as GlyphsData.xml to be installed in the ~/Library/Application Support/Glyphs 3/Info folder. Further reading
  • Fonts Static: OTF and web font versions. OTFs are autohinted, so are the OTF-based web fonts, but TTFs aren't due to the ttfautohint error with this source file.
  • Fonts Variable: variable fonts in TTF and web font formats.
  • Mak Keyboard Layout: My custom keyboard layout for macOS that is based on FreeTengwar's tengwarQWERTY. It should appear as 'tengwarQWERTY Toshi'.
  • README: This document.
  • OFL.txt: The Open Font License 1.1 license text.
  • PDFs: Some PDFs including the glyph set, manual, and simple specimens. The glyph mapping requires a special attention, as it uses my custom mapping based on Free Tengwar's.
  • Sample Text: Try the font with these text. (Note: the font doesn't contain Latin)

Disclaimer

The Brill fonts are owned by Koninklijke Brill NV. They are not licensed under the OFL but under licenses of their own, both non-commercial and commercial.

Alcarin Tengwar is not in any official way associated with either Koninklijke Brill NV or Tolkien Estate (though I have received the blessing of the former; not 100% unofficial). It also does not contain any graphical elements of Brill.

Also, I am a typeface designer, not a linguist. My knowledge on Tengwar and is rusty; if/when you raise issues, I would appreciate an attitude and vocabulary as if you would explain to a newbie.

4 Open More issues
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Right-to-left numerals

Apparently in Tengwar, numerals are supposed to be written from right to left (similarly to how in Arabic, numerals are written from left to right even though text goes from right to left); see http://fan.theonering.net/~rolozo/tengwar/tengwar/numbers.htm. I wonder if it would be possible to mark the Tengwar digits as RTL glyphs.

opened Jan 6, 2022 by skalyan91 10
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Letter shape/kerning suggestions

  1. At text sizes, the s-tengwar ( and ) look too narrow compared to the bowl-and-stem letters. See Telcontar for a good reference. (There may be a similar issue with the z-tengwar, though I haven’t tested these yet.) At large sizes these letters look fine, so I suspect this may be a result of the font having been designed at a larger size than the one it’s meant to be used at.
  2. The o- and u-tehtar look too “flat” to me; for both readability and style reasons, I think they should be more rounded. Again, see Telcontar (though I understand that some adjustments needed to be made when going from a calligraphic style to a “Transitional” style).
  3. Not lettershape-related per se, but hinting definitely needs to be improved (even in the OTF version): at text sizes, the thickness of stems varies haphazardly, and this significantly impacts readability.
  4. Ideally, when a vowel carrier with tehta precedes a letter with an ascender on the left, the two letters should be spaced further apart, to visually accommodate the tehta. (There are analogous situations in Latin text, e.g. combinations such as íh and íl, but as far as I’m aware no font deals with this issue.)
opened Jan 5, 2022 by skalyan91 7
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Missing punctuation marks

Congratulations on all the effort required to create such a full-featured font! Unfortunately, at least a couple of punctuation marks are missing, despite being accessible from the (relevant parts of the) keyboard map: ⁘ and ⸭.

opened Jan 5, 2022 by skalyan91 4
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Can't install?

Hi Tosche,

thanks for your beautiful font! However, I haven't been able to install either the TTFs or the OTFs. I drag them into Fontbook, the «adding fonts...» dialog briefly pops up, then nothing happens. I can't see Alcarin in the list of installed fonts. Perhaps it has to do with Latin not being present?

Cheers, Christian

opened Jan 5, 2022 by CatharsisFonts 2
Closed

Tehtar collisions

Screen Shot 2022-01-15 at 9 12 13 pm

I know I mentioned this in a previous issue in the context of possibly adjusting the kerning, but maybe a simpler (and more consistent) solution would be to make the o- and u-tehtar more vertical?

opened Jan 15, 2022 by skalyan91 1
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Review RFNs

https://github.com/Tosche/Alcarin-Tengwar/blob/7120d4ebb71534fbcce0c3205b78498f45ed397c/OFL.txt#L2 doesn't include the family name which is odd.

Perhaps the RFNs should be Alcarin and Toshi and Tosche (ie trademarks and names other people shouldn't use without permission) -- but not tengwar, since that prohibits any downstream user from using that in the name

opened Jan 5, 2022 by davelab6 1
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More obscure font features

Congratulations for this amazing font! I would like to ask whether there are plans to support some of the lesser known Tengwar signs, more specifically:

  1. The long carrier ligature for Old English (Sauron Defeated, p. 326), Telcontar handles them with some tengwa + zero-width joiner + long carrier. Superficially it looks a bit like thinnas but it has a different semantic and appears to be less curved. [Telcontar]
  2. The silme + harma ligature for Old English (Sauron Defeated, p. 323), Telcontar handles it with silme + zero-width joiner + harma.
  3. The doubling strokes for Old English (Sauron Defeated, p. 325), Telcontar encodes them as ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ (E049), because its meaning is unrelated to a double e. Although the Alcarin Glyph Set PDF seems to indicate that there is a variant for two acutes below, this is not rendered in the actual font.
opened Mar 29, 2022 by j-teuber 5
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Side bearings

Screen Shot 2022-01-15 at 9 52 31 pm

The fourth set of letters above looks reasonably well-spaced, but the other three look inconsistent—the spaces between adjacent stems are greater than between adjacent bowls, or between a stem and a bowl.

I think in some cases the side bearings of stems need to be reduced, and in other cases the side bearings of bowls need to be increased. Note that this is not a matter of hinting, as the issue persists at large sizes.

opened Jan 15, 2022 by skalyan91 2

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