: Have the IPA characters from Sylfaen ever been released? Sylfaen as originally designed had a full set of International Phonetic Alphabet characters, and they appear in a paper on the designers'
Sylfaen as originally designed had a full set of International Phonetic Alphabet characters, and they appear in a paper on the designers' website. But the version that was free with Windows XP — the only one I've actually used — did not include those characters. Have they ever been released in any form?
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As of 2004, it hasn't.
In an excerpt taken from Typophile, John Hudson (the author of the font) says this:
[...] the Sylfaen IPA set, [...] has not been released. It
was not intended for release, only to show IPA characters in a
database, so it is not as polished as it would be if destined for
release.
It has been nearly 8 years since that post, but I do doubt that they were ever released if he never had any plans for releasing them.
John Hudson did however redraw Sylfaen under a new name, "Nyala" which does have some IPA Extensions according to Microsoft.
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