Uralic fonts with extended Cyrillic for Uralic languages

At http://www.peoples.org.ru/uralic.html, a relatively long time ago (in May and June 2004, judging by file dates), a dozen fonts and font groups were published that support Ural languages ​​with scripts based on Russian Cyrillic alphabet: Komi, Mansi (non-long vowels), Mari, Nenets, Selkup, Udmurt, and all Khanty dialects. In addition, the same set of letters is called sufficient to support some other (non-Ural) languages ​​of the Russian peoples - Altai, Koryak, Nanai, Chukot, Evenki and Even.

Nine individual fonts and groups of fonts make up the Uralic font collection (I cannot call it a “family” because they differ markedly in style):

• Bookman Uralic (three fonts: ordinary, bold, italic)
  
• Chancery Uralic - decorative calligraphic font
  
• Gothic Uralic (ordinary, bold) - Futura-type grotesque
  
• Mono Uralic (ordinary) - Courier type monospaced font
  
• Palladio Uralic (ordinary, bold, italic) - headset type Palatino
  
• Roman Uralic (ordinary, bold, italic) - Times type headset
  
• Sans Uralic (ordinary, bold, italic, bold italic) - Helvetica type grotesque
  
• Sans Condensed Uralic (ordinary, bold) - a narrow version of the previous one
  
• Schoolbook Uralic (ordinary, bold, italic) is a sort of School Headset

The tenth is the author's font “ Riddle ”, which Esa Anttikoski painted based on the “wooden-birch” typeface, which was used in the 1950s-1980s to design Karelian folklore publications. (He also calls this font “Kalevalsky” after the epic “Kalevala”.)
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About the authorship and license of the first nine fonts there it says:

The original fonts were developed by URW ++, the Cyrillic part by Valek Filippov, modified by Esa Anttikoski. Fonts can be freely distributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

I must say: I do not have enough confidence in how much you can trust this ad. (Have the URW ++ fonts developed under the GNU GPL license ever been distributed? But it’s clear that without this you can hardly distribute their derivatives like that. At present, for example, the Palladio font is sold by URW ++ for 29 € and the license is not at all on the GNU GPL.)

The font encoding is an eclectic combination of Unicode and Cyrillic Asian's pre -Unicode Paratype encoding. Thus, Russian Cyrillic takes the places of additional Latin letters in Western European encoding (Latin 1) and its own unicode positions in Cyrillic encoding (Windows CP 1251). Additional letters of the Ural languages ​​are presented not even in two, but in three places: in the place of additional characters of Western European coding, in the place of additional characters of Cyrillic coding and in their unicode positions (with the exception of letters that are not in Unicode - or not in 2004) .

I hope that the combination of circumstances I have outlined is of particular interest to Habrahabra readers: firstly, as a vivid historical example of the sad state of the typography of small peoples of Russia by 2004, and secondly, as a source of at least one free free) decorative Cyrillic font that was not previously mentioned on Habrahabr - I’m talking about the “ Riddle ” font, which is not based on the works of URW ++ , so there is no reason for doubting its GNU GPL license. Here is the outline of this font:



Northern decorative "ethnic" free free font - it is always only in favor.