{"id":255,"date":"2015-09-17T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\/?page_id=255"},"modified":"2024-07-12T19:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T19:03:40","slug":"design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\/design\/","title":{"rendered":"Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alkalami is a font for Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region of Nigeria and in Niger. This style of writing African ajami has sometimes been called Sudani Kufi or Rubutun Kano. It is vastly different from script traditions of the Middle East. The bulk of the design of Alkalami was based on what are known as \u2018market edition manuscripts\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>One font from this typeface family is included in the <em>Alkalami<\/em> release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alkalami Regular<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Type Samples<\/h2>\n<p>Type samples showing some of the inventory of glyphs can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"sample\">Alkalami Type Sample<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One example of some text is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fullsize\" src=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2017\/05\/AlkalamiGen11-Regular.png\" alt=\"Alkalami Sample - Genesis 11\" \/><\/p>\n<em>Alkalami Sample &#8211; Genesis 11<\/em>\n<h2>Character Set<\/h2>\n<p>For a complete list of characters included in Alkalami, see <a href=\"charset\">Character Set Support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Font Features<\/h2>\n<p>Alternate glyphs that are available through features are demonstrated in the <a href=\"features\">Features<\/a> document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alkalami is a font for Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region of Nigeria and in Niger. This style of writing African ajami has sometimes been called Sudani Kufi or Rubutun Kano. It is vastly different from script traditions of the Middle East. The bulk of the design of Alkalami was based on what are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}