Scheherazade New
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| Category | Naskh |
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| Designer(s) | SIL International |
| Date released | 2015 |
| License | SIL Open Font License |
Scheherazade New, formerly Scheherazade, is a traditional Naskh styled font for Arabic script created by SIL, freely available under the Open Font License. It supports a wide range of Arabic-based writing system encoded in Unicode. The font offers two family members: regular and bold.[1]
Scheherazade New supports Graphite and OpenType technologies for contextual shaping, ligatures, and dynamic diacritics positioning, also provides advanced rendering features including localized forms, character variants.[2] It is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL),[3] and can be downloaded free of charge.[4]
Demonstration
| Scheherazade | ـݢـ ـࢴـ ـݣـ ـࢰـ |
| Scheherazade New | ـݢـ ـࢴـ ـݣـ ـࢰـ |
| SF Arabic | ـݢـ ـࢴـ ـݣـ ـࢰـ |
Notice that the earlier version looks smaller, but nevertheless has a more complete coverage of some rare characters and only one character failed to render properly. SF Arabic is here to demonstrate how the letters are supposed to look like; available to Apple users and has a complete Arabic coverage.[5]
For this demonstration to succeed, you need to install both fonts or import them from the web. Scheherazade is already a Wikimedia font, while Scheherazade New is available on Google Fonts.
See also
- Naskh script
References
- ↑ "Scheherazade New". 2 October 2014. http://software.sil.org/scheherazade/.
- ↑ "Smart Font Features - Scheherazade New". http://software.sil.org/scheherazade/support/smart-font-features/.
- ↑ "SIL Open Font License (OFL)". http://scripts.sil.org/OFL.
- ↑ "Download page on sil.org". 2 October 2014. http://software.sil.org/scheherazade/download/.
- ↑ "Fonts for Apple Platforms". //developer.apple.com/fonts/.
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