Pomorsky is a decorative font intended for drop caps (bukvitsy) and titling in Old Rite texts. It reproduces the calligraphic style of book and chapter titles used by Priestless Old Believers of the Vyg Hermitage.
The font was designed by Nikita Simmons and then reencoded for Unicode by Aleksandr Andreev as part of the Slavonic Computing Initiative, released under SIL OFL v. 1.1.
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at https://openfontlicense.org/.
The font is built using fontmake and gftools post processing script. Tools are all python based, so it must be previously installed.
To install all the Python tools into a virtualenv, do the following:
From terminal:
cd your/local/project/directory
#once in the project folder create a virtual environment.
This step has to be done just once, the first time:
python3 -m venv venv
#activate the virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate
#install the required dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
Then run the this command:
cd sources
gftools builder config.yaml
The fonts are supposed to build automatically in the repository using GitHub Actions, but this does not work correctly for some reason.
There are no specialized features. Only glyphs used in titling are provided in the font.
See the main repository and the website.