{"id":20,"date":"2014-10-02T09:52:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T09:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/arabicfonts\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2024-10-21T14:25:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T14:25:46","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/arabicfonts\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Arabic Fonts \u2014 Extended Arabic fonts for a wide variety of styles<\/h2>\n<p>SIL\u2019s Writing Systems Technology has created a number of fonts for use in writing <strong>Arabic script<\/strong>. Our Extended Arabic fonts were designed for a variety of styles and uses. Each of our fonts supports a different set of Arabic script characters. The fonts with near-complete Arabic script coverage are Scheherazade New, Harmattan, and Lateef. Each of the other fonts supports a subset of the Arabic script. That subset is based on the characters known to be required by the languages in that region.<\/p>\n<p>The fonts are listed below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\">Scheherazade New<\/a> is a Naskh-style font covering just about every need we know about in the Arabic script world.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\">Harmattan<\/a> was designed to suit the needs of languages using the Arabic script in West Africa.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\">Lateef<\/a> is also a Naskh-style font and is an appropriate style for use in Sindhi and other languages of the southern Asia.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/alkalami\">Alkalami<\/a> is a Rubutun Kano font for Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region of Nigeria and Niger.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/ruwudu\">Ruwudu<\/a> is a Rubutun Kano font for Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region of Nigeria and Niger. This font was initially designed as a lighter or companion version of Alkalami.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\">Awami Nastaliq<\/a> is a Nastaliq-style font supporting a wide variety of languages of Pakistan, including but not limited to Urdu.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arabic Fonts \u2014 Extended Arabic fonts for a wide variety of styles SIL\u2019s Writing Systems Technology has created a number of fonts for use in writing Arabic script. Our Extended Arabic fonts were designed for a variety of styles and uses. Each of our fonts supports a different set of Arabic script characters. The fonts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/arabicfonts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/arabicfonts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/arabicfonts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/arabicfonts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/arabicfonts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/arabicfonts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/arabicfonts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/arabicfonts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}