Version History

Added 4 weights — Medium, SemiBold, Bold, and ExtraBold
Added three characters:
- U+08C8 ARABIC LETTER GRAF
- U+069B ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
- U+069C ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW AND THREE DOTS ABOVE

Modified rules for forming the Allah ligature
Fixed a bug affecting the right margin
Fixed a problem with the behavior of the yeh with hamza
Added a short version of the final sad
Various improvements to beh forms
Collision fixes
Changed the default value of the short forms feature to use all short forms
Added a special form of khah+zabar+meem+jeem+heh-doachashmee to avoid excessive height
Flattened a couple of special ligatures
Changed dopesh to use 69 form consistently

Added four honorific ligatures
- U+FDFA ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHEWASALLAM
- U+FDFB ARABIC LIGATURE JALLAJALALOUHOU
- U+FDFD ARABIC LIGATURE BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN AR-RAHEEM
- U+E003 ALAYHI AS-SALAAM
Added U+075A DAL WITH INVERTED SMALL V BELOW
Adjusted shapes of lam + alef combination, certain reh forms, medial heh goal + reh
Adjusted position of honorific diacritics
Adjusted position of superscript-alef on lam
Added special ligature forms for three words
Added short forms of jeem+bariyeh, beh+qaf/waw, final jeem, final ain
Added wider form of jeem+kaf combination where needed
Improved alignment of kafs, alef, and bariyeh with the right margin
Increased spacing when sequences overlap
Improved kerning of punctuation
Improved kerning for rehs and other final forms
Improved connections with medial/final fehs

Ten new characters – U+06C8, U+06CA, U+06CB, U+06CF, U+077E, U+077F, U+0695, U+06A4, U+08C7, U+221A
Adjust behavior of nuqtas over sequences of beh/teh/theh/peh/etc.
Changed shape of beh+seen and beh+sad before sad, tah, ain, feh, qaf, and final noon.
Improved glyph-shape approximations for automatic collision fixing
Adjusted diagonal cluster fitting involving short sequences
Adjusted shape of meem heads
Adjusted behavior of final-reh + zer
Added and tweaked anchors
Added smaller flat nukta for certain cases
Adjusted shape of pre-jeem medial lam, keheh and gaf
Adjusted position of salaam ulena ligature
Adjusted position of Arabic zero characters
Reduced size of U+060E
Fixed bugs in bariyeh attachments
Removed “Show invisible characters” feature
Fixed bug in “Hamza” feature (Arabic style setting)
Adjusted design of U+06BA (noon ghunna) to match Unicode recommendations
Tweaked glyph shapes and sizes

Added characters: U+0604, U+0609, U+060A, U+060B, U+061C, U+0649, U+0659, U+066E, U+066F, U+0671, U+068E, U+069E, U+06A1, U+06B7, U+06C9, U+06E0, U+06E1, U+06EA, U+06ED, U+0763, U+0772, U+0773, U+0774, U+0775, U+0776, U+0777, U+0778, U+0779, U+077A, U+077B, U+077C, U+077D, U+FDFC
Adjusted shapes of sad, heh-doachashmee, some jeem forms, initial ains, and alternate-height kafs and gafs
Improved shape of shadda
Fixed right side-bearing problems with kafs, gafs, seens, and bariyeh
Made bariyeh right-joining only
Made many small glyph shape improvements
Improved collision handling for special cases
Added an omitted feature to TypeTuner capability
Redesigned salaam ulena ligature
Improved punctuation kerning
Include auto-hinting for Latin characters
Fixed bug in noon-ring implementation
Fixed positioning problems in end of ayah

Changed angle of vertical strokes on alef, lam, kaf, gaf, and tah forms
Increased the line height by 20%
Changed shapes of a number of letter forms: tah, bariyeh, feh (head shape), dal, reh, some meems, some heh-goals, isolate kaf/gaf, some initial jeems, pesh, dopesh, name marker
Added Arabic style punctuation; cleaned up behavior of Arabic vs. Latin style punctuation
Added visible versions of invisible characters such as directional markers, directional embedding, no-break spaces, etc.
Added features: Full stop alternate (dash vs. dot) and Punctuation (default, Arabic, or Latin)
Added 06CE – yeh with small V; 06D5 – Ae
Adjust size of spaces to match rescaling that happened in beta-2 version
Fixed bugs in hamza feature
Cleaned up positions of diacritics

Increased font size by 15%
Redesigned seen forms
Redesigned nuqtas, made a them little smaller and closer together
Implemented feature to allow shorter kafs/gafs and some final forms (noon, seen, chotiyeh, bariyeh, qaf, meem, lam) when the sequences get very high
Added feature to allow alternate position of V over lam
Added Arabic style quote marks at a higher position than Latin
Scaled subtending marks more appropriately
Hand-tweaked some combinations to make more readable
Added U+06B0 GAF WITH RING
Added “salaam ulena” ligature
Redesigned initial beh before meem
Made nuqta positions on seens and sads more consistent
Reworked ain connections
Fixed shape of Arabic 4 and 5
Adjusted various letter shapes