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Update Iosevka Charon #10968

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Font Project Git Repo URL:

https://github.com/jul-sh/iosevka-charon

Current version:

v34.100 (commit 727f1343e957cadd354f9ec4ee98eba9b645143d)

New available version:

v34.801 (commit 532af9859334d86ad0557b309549cd1ea0ba4aa4) — https://github.com/jul-sh/iosevka-charon/releases/tag/v34.801

Release archive: https://github.com/jul-sh/iosevka-charon/releases/download/v34.801/iosevka-charon.zip

Super short description of the upgrade:

This rebases Iosevka Charon onto upstream Iosevka v34.8.1, picking up several upstream releases of glyph additions and shape refinements since the version currently live on Google Fonts.

Highlights:

  • New characters, including WHITE HEAVY CHECK MARK (U+2705), NEGATIVE SQUARED CROSS MARK (U+274E), LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITHOUT HANDLE (U+AB47), LATIN SMALL LETTER R WITH CROSSED-TAIL (U+AB49), SYMBOL FOR SUBSTITUTE FORM TWO (U+2426), LATIN CAPITAL/SMALL LETTER VISIGOTHIC Z (U+A762U+A763), the tresillo/cuatrillo range (U+A72AU+A72F), sideways U brackets (U+2E26U+2E27), and turned o open-o (U+AB43U+AB44).
  • Extensive shape refinements across Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and IPA — notably the breve and inverted-breve families (U+0102U+0217, plus the Greek perispomeni and vrachy ranges), the ezh family, the Cyrillic d/l/r families, and a broad pass over stroked and small-capital letterforms in 34.8.1.
  • Upstreamed design work. The narrow bent hook variants for f, j, r, t and the dense ellipsis variants that this project previously carried as local patches were merged into upstream Iosevka (Add narrow hook variants for f, t, j, and r glyphs be5invis/Iosevka#3132, Add Georgian script to Google fonts #3133, The Fonts Archive Is Not Working #3135). The build now tracks a clean upstream release tag with no local source divergence.

No changes to the family's glyph coverage targets, naming, vertical metrics, or licensing.

QA: fontspector (googlefonts profile) reports 0 FAIL across all 16 binaries, unchanged from the previously onboarded release. The report is attached to the release as iosevka-charon-google-fonts-qa-report.zip.

Bugs reported in this repo which this upgrade would fix:

None — I am not aware of any open google/fonts issues for this family. The previous onboarding issues (#10245 for Iosevka Charon, #10247 for Iosevka Charon Mono) are closed.

One metadata note for this update: upstream Iosevka's copyright moved to 2015-2026, so the fonts in this release carry Copyright 2015-2026 The Iosevka Project Authors (https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka) in their name table. ofl/iosevkacharon/METADATA.pb currently records the 2015-2025 form, so the copyright fields will need updating to match the new binaries.

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