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[mjabbink]

Sans v3.5
Arabic v1.5

[BoldMonday]

Another update has just been uploaded:
Serif v3.1

[BoldMonday]

@tay1orjones Here are the specifics:

IBM PLEX SERIF V3.1 - 2023-11-27

Added

• Bulgarian Cyrillic forms
  referenced in issue 448

Changed

• Changed /softhyphen (U+00AD) to empty non-spacing character
• Improved shapes for U+04AA and U+04AB
  referenced in issue 498

IBM PLEX SANS ARABIC V1.5 - 2023-10-31

Added

• Kerning for glyph /rreh-ar.fina (U+FB8D)
  referenced in issue 542

Changed

• Removed substitutions to glyph /allah-ar (U+FDF2) in rlig feature
  referenced in issue 525

IBM PLEX SANS V3.5 - 2023-09-20

Added

• Bulgarian Cyrillic forms
  referenced in issue 448

Changed

• Changed /softhyphen (U+00AD) to empty non-spacing character

[BoldMonday]

@tay1orjones Another update has been completed:

[IBM PLEX MONO V2.4] - 2023-12-21

Added

• old-style numerals
  referenced in issue 418
• Bulgarian Cyrillic forms
  referenced in issue 448
• alternative shape for U+0023 NUMBER SIGN
  referenced in issue 401
• Cyrillic support for Abkhaz language
  referenced in issue 355
• support for pre-1918 Cyrillic
  referenced in issue 158
• U+2236 RATIO
  referenced in issue 199
• U+2219 BULLET OPERATOR
  referenced in issue 84
• U+2010-U+2015 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN, DASHES, etc.
  referenced in issue 84
  referenced in issue 317
• U+2028 LINE SEPERATOR
  referenced in issue 52
• U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPERATOR
  referenced in issue 52
• U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE
  referenced in issue 282
• U+2008 PUNCTUATION SPACE
• U+200A HAIR SPACE
  referenced in issue 361
• U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE
  referenced in issue 84
  referenced in issue 318

Fixed

• Rendering of certain Cyrillic glyphs
  referenced in issue 410
• Difference in lineheight for SemiBold weight in some situations
  referenced in issue 408

Changed

• Improved shapes for U+0473 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER FITA and U+0472 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER FITA
  referenced in issue 158
• Changed U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN to empty non-spacing character
• Improved shapes for U+04AA CYRILLIC CAPITAL ES WITH DESCENDER and U+04AB CYRILLIC LOWERCASE ES WITH DESCENDER
  referenced in issue 498

[kenmcd]

Where can I look at these updated fonts?
I looked at the "deploy-previews" and they are still the last version.
And I cannot see the updated fonts/source anywhere in the repo.

The info above says loclBRG has been added now.
I am creating a guide of OFL fonts which support loclBGR and would like to include the IBM Plex fonts.

Thanks.

[BoldMonday]

@kenmcd these files are not in the repository yet.

Question for @vpicone @tay1orjones -- if I would replace existing font files in this repo with updated ones: would that break anything? I know that someone else still needs to build a release. Perhaps there’s a way to have updated files faster on this repo? The last release was seven months ago.

[BoldMonday]

@tay1orjones Please add this new extension for Traditional Chinese as well:

[IBM PLEX SANS TC V1.0] - 2024-01-11

Added

• Support for Traditional Chinese (19324 glyphs per font)

[tay1orjones]

We'll be working on putting this into a release this week

[mjabbink]

This is great news. The IBMers in China will especially be happy in addition to all the IBM.com Chinese pages.

[pkj-l]

@tay1orjones Please add this new extension for Traditional Chinese as well:

[IBM PLEX SANS TC V1.0] - 2024-01-11

Added

• Support for Traditional Chinese (19324 glyphs per font)

When will the SC version release?

[mjabbink]

3—4 weeks from now is my best guess if all the final checks and tests go well.

[NightFurySL2001]

Any chances the SC version will get to be released with TC since the release is scheduled for this week?

We'll be working on putting this into a release this week

[mjabbink]

@NightFurySL2001 There is no way to release SC with TC. We received files for SC from Sandoll only in January, so we’ll need a few weeks to prepare it for release.

We received the files for TC in mid-December weeks ago, so we are releasing them today or early next week.