Add Bulgarian alternates as local feature to Bulgarian language

[cssobral2013]

Also, does this font support Bulgarian alternates for Cyrillic?

[khaledhosny]

Please elaborate, I know neither Bulgarian nor Cyrillic.

[KrasnayaPloshchad]

Some discussions can be seen from here:
https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/89

[StefanPeev]

I'll try to help for the Cyrillic script (including Bulgarian one). I'm not an expert but I could do some work for this project. I hope so... :)
My first aim will be to add Cyrillic glyphs to Bold Italic version of the font.

[StefanPeev]

Some results:


I'll collect them in the folder IMAGES on the branch CYRILLIC.
Or better see directly Gallery.
SFD file will be updated on the branch when the first draft of the Cyrillic Bold Italic is completed.
See also notofonts/noto-fonts#29

[khaledhosny]

Anyone knows what should be done here is free to send a pull request.

[Crissov]

This issue is about upright letters дгиптш in the third column in this picture, I suppose:

[Crissov]

@StefanPeev’s pictures in the Noto thread are really helpful and illustrative. I hope it’s okay to quote one here:

Besides lowercase дгиптш, some uppercase forms should also be altered: Д and Лл should look much like Greek delta Δ and lambda Λλ; Фф should almost become an O or o with a vertical bar. Some lowercase letters should have ascenders: в is a bit like Latin b with a second bowl, к looks identical to k and ж is based on that; ю looks like an lo digraph. з has a descender like an old-style digit 3. Some other letters should only have single-side serifs.

PS: This article on Local Fonts, using the font Vollkorn, is also enlightening.

[s-mayrh]

this initiative promoting the localized bulgarian cyrillic style may be of interest

We hope to shed more light on the subject here and we appeal to all who write in Bulgarian – web designers, programmers, marketers, writers and the media – to use Bulgarian Cyrillic.

https://cyrillic.bgweb.bg/en

[StefanPeev]

One can see my suggestions for Bulgarian Cyrillic forms in Common Serif. As Common Serif is based on Libertinus Serif these forms can be easily transformed in Libertinus Serif project.