Graphite

Graphite is a “smart font” system developed specifically to handle the complexities of lesser-known languages of the world.

Graphite is a package that can be used to create “smart fonts” capable of displaying writing systems with various complex behaviors. A smart font contains not only letter shapes but also additional instructions indicating how to combine and position the letters in complex ways.

Graphite was developed to provide the flexibility needed for lesser-known languages which often need to be written according to slightly different rules than well-known languages that use the same script.