Lorna | 20 June 2019

Awami Nastaliq 2.000 is a major release of the Awami Nastaliq font. This release supports additional languages and provides improvements to glyph shapes and connections.

Changes to this font include:

  • Added ten new characters:
    • 0695 ARABIC LETTER REH WITH SMALL V BELOW
    • 06A4 ARABIC LETTER VEH
    • 06C8 ARABIC LETTER YU
    • 06CA ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE
    • 06CB ARABIC LETTER VE
    • 06CF ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT ABOVE
    • 221A SQUARE ROOT
    • 077E ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH INVERTED V
    • 077F ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE
    • 08C7 ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE (in Unicode pipeline)
  • 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 ARABIC POETIC VERSE SIGN
  • 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

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