Andika , from the verb root for 'to write' in Swahili, is a

sans-serif In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. Sans-serif typefaces tend to have less stroke width variation than seri ...

typeface developed by

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for the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts. It is designed for literacy programs and beginning readers, but also has support for IPA transcription and a large number of diacritics. The font offers four family members: roman, bold, italic and bold italic. Andika supports

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and AAT technologies for advanced rendering features. It is licensed under the

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(OFL), and can be downloaded free of charge. Version 6.000 of the font, with over 3,800 glyphs are included, including stylistic variants and ligatures. Stylistic variants include primer-style forms of letters such as ''a'', ''g'' and ''t''. The Andika New Basic variant has a reduced number of characters and a significantly smaller file size.

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External links

Andika homepage
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