2023-02-22 (WSTech team) Alkalami Version 3.000 (production release)

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 GREATER-THAN SIGN
  • 00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN
  • 2248 ALMOST EQUAL TO
  • 2264 LESS-THAN OR EQUAL TO
  • 2265 GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO

2022-06-09 (WSTech team) Alkalami Version 2.000 (production release)

• Removed Alkalami Light font.
• Removed non Unicode compliant solutions

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 tails for collision avoidance
• Fixed bug in outline of U+0624 (Regular)
• Added positional digit variants for Latin digits

2020-01-31 (Sharon Correll) Alkalami Version 1.200 (production release)

• 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 isolate and final forms
• Changed ss07 hah medial and final forms to match jeem medial and final forms (Light only)
• Changed ss05 (Wagaf Hack) version of U+06A0 to include single large nukta (bug in previous version of the font)
• Added mirrored versions of some glyphs such as radical and summation
• Increased right side-bearing for Light version of U+0623

2018-07-11 (Becca Spalinger) Alkalami 1.100

• Changed qaf-based characters: isolate now has tail; tail on final flattened to match isolate

2017-05-23 (Becca Spalinger) Alkalami 1.000

• Fixed issues related to lam/alef/hamza shaping
• Fixed issue with jeem/hah combinations not shaping properly
• Added larger left sidebearing on U+0622 (isolate and final forms)
• Repositioned below attachment points on isolate and final forms of noon, lam, seen, sad, qaf and yeh
• Added Stylistic set (ss08) to make fatha, kasra and damma touch the isolate alef
• Decomposed U+0623 and U+0625 in order to allow the hamza part of the character to be colored
• Changed position of dagger alef when with fatha

2016-12-15 (Becca Spalinger) Alkalami 0.924

• Repositioned below attachment points on reh and waw
• Changed depth of swash on the sad/dad, seen/sheen, and lam isolate
• Digits reduced in size
• Width of U+0640 reduced by 50%
• Left sidebearing on U+0621 reduced
• Changed positioning of dagger alef above fatha and alef maksura

2016-10-06 (Becca Spalinger) Alkalami 0.919

• Updated OpenType code to handle hah/jeem/khah/nyeh positioning

2016-04-04 (Becca Hirsbrunner Spalinger) Alkalami 0.910

• Added anchor points to U+FDF2
• Removed U+064A to ss05 and added U+06CC to ss05 with wagaf above

2016-02-04 (Becca Hirsbrunner Spalinger) Alkalami 0.909

• Fixed medial alternate form of peh

2016-01-12 (Becca Hirsbrunner Spalinger) Alkalami 0.908

• Fixed OpenType code for “Allah”

2015-12-11 (Becca Hirsbrunner Spalinger) Alkalami 0.906 Preliminary design and smart behaviours

• Smart behaviours for wagaf and Warsh implemented in OpenType
• TypeTuner code added to support features
• Space character changed to be bigger for use Latin script and smaller for Arabic script

2015-11-05 (Becca Hirsbrunner Spalinger) Alkalami 0.1-alpha Preliminary design and smart behaviours

• Preliminary design of isolate characters
• Smart behaviours implemented in OpenType