Alkalami

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Release 3.000

Changes New Added OpenType language support for Hausa Added characters: U+0870 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED FATHA U+0872 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH RIGHT MIDDLE STROKE U+0874 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED KASRA Added mirrored glyph: 2248 ALMOST EQUAL TO Improved Adjust width for some mathematical symols 003C LESS-THAN SIGN 003E… Read More

Release 2.000

Changes Removed Alkalami Light font. Removed non Unicode compliant solutions Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the Download Page. Known issues If you used previous versions of this font, we made some decisions which were unfortunately not Unicode compliant. Since the initial… Read More

Release 1.300

Changes 2022-04-27 (WSTech team) Alkalami Version 1.300 (production release) Added characters to support other languages: U+0600, U+0657..U+0658, U+065D, U+067D, U+0684, U+06A5, U+06E5, U+0761, U+0870, U+0872, U+0874, U+08A2..U+08A3, U+08F4..U+08FD, U+FDFD, U+2212 Changed design of U+0643 (KAF) and U+06AD (NG) Added ss09 to support “Wagaf small” Added more contextual substitutions of swash… Read More

Release 1.200

Changes Added many characters required for codepage 1252 and macRoman Deleted many Latin characters not required for codepage 1252 and macRoman Added Arabic script characters: U+063F, U+0751, U+08C3 (pipelined for Unicode 13.0), U+08C4 (pipelined for Unicode 13.0) Added UI name strings for OpenType features Repositioned below attachment points on qaf-based… Read More

Release 1.100

We are pleased to announce the release of the Alkalami (pronounced al-KA-la-mi) v1.100 font. The only change in this release is a change to the qaf-based characters: isolate now has tail; tail on final was flattened to match the isolate form. Known Issues The design of U+06A0 with ss05 turned… Read More

Release 1.000

We are pleased to announce the official release of the Alkalami (pronounced al-KA-la-mi) font. Alkǎlami is the local word for the Arabic “qalam”, a type of sharpened stick used for writing on wooden boards in the Kano region of Nigeria and in Niger, and what gives the style its distinct… Read More