Luciole package

Description

This package provides four Unicode Math text fonts Luciole-*.ttf and a companion maths font Luciole-Math.otf. They have been developed explicitly for visually impaired people and are the result of a collaboration between the Regional Technical Center for Visual Impairment, the type-design studio typographies.fr and the mathematician Daniel Flipo. The Luciole project received a grant from the Swiss Ceres Foundation and the PEP69 association, and support from the DIPHE laboratory at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 and the association GUTenberg.

Contents

• Luciole-Regular.ttf, Luciole-Regular-Italic.ttf, Luciole-Bold.ttf and Luciole-BoldItalic.ttf TrueType Text fonts
• Luciole-Math.otf OpenType Math font
• Luciole-Math-Bold.otf Bold variant (limited coverage)
• luciole-math.sty LaTeX style file for Luciole-Math.otf
• Luciole.fontspec Defaults for Text fonts
• Luciole-Doc.pdf Documentation in PDF format
• Luciole-Doc.ltx Source of Luciole-Math.pdf
• unimath-luciole.pdf Modified version of unimath-symbols.pdf showing available Luciole-Math symbols compared to other Maths fonts,
• unimath-luciole.ltx Source of unimath-luciole.pdf
• README.md (this file)

Installation

This package Luciole’ is meant to be installed automatically by TeXLive,MikTeX, etc. Otherwise, can be installed under TEXMFHOME or TEXMFLOCAL, f.i. text and math fonts in directory texmf-local/fonts/truetype/public/luciole/, and luciole-math.sty, Luciole.fontspec in directory texmf-local/tex/latex/luciole/. Documentation files and their sources can go to directory texmf-local/doc/fonts/public/luciole/

Don't forget to rebuild the file database (mktexlsr or so) if you install under TEXMFLOCAL.

Finally, make the system font database aware of the Luciole fonts (fontconfig under Linux).

License

• The Text fonts Luciole-*.ttf are licensed under the Creative Common CC-BY

Font License,

• The font Luciole-Math.otf is licensed under the SIL Open Font License,

Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

• The other files are distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project

Public License from CTAN archives in directory macros/latex/base/lppl.txt. Either version 1.3c or, at your option, any later version.

Changes

• First public version: 0.40

• v0.50
  • internal: widearc reencoded for compatibility with my other math fonts.
  • cv00 (unavailable) replaced by cv11 to access slashed zeros.
  • luciole-math.sty tunes TeX, LaTeX, LaTeX2ε logos for the Luciole fonts;
  option "no-logos" added to prohibit their redefinition.

• v0.55
  • Internal: std@equal redefined, redefinition of std@minus removed.
  • Most horizontal arrows and harpoons are now stretchable.
  • Fixed kernings between ([{ and mij, mity.
  • Math table fixed for glyphs horizontal and vertical composition.

• v0.60
  • Improved design of large parentheses.
  • Invisible Math operators (U-2061 to U+2064) added.
  • Compatibility with Typst v0.14: all glyphs used in vertical compositions now sit on the baseline.
  • Documentation fixes.

• v0.70
  • Script variant added for calligraphic capitals.
  • Circle, diamond and lozenge operators : sizes enlarged.
  • Brackets redesigned.
  • Math table Sub/Superscripts parameters tuned, see
  https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/759695/
  • Math table fraction parameters tuned.
  • Fixed spaces' width (U+2000 to U+200B and U+205F).
  • Variation Selectors (U-FE00 and U+FE01) added; they work on all Math symbols listed on https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/StandardizedVariants.txt
  which are available in Luciole Math fonts (U+FE01 provides access to script variants of the default calligraphic capitals (Chancery like).
  • Documentation fixes.

• v0.71
  • Superscripts for calligraphic capitals redesigned.

— Copyright 2024-2026 Laurent Bourcellier, Jonathan Fabreguettes, Daniel Flipo E-mail: daniel (dot) flipo (at) free (dot) fr