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title: Scheherazade New - Design
fontversion: 4.500
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Scheherazade New provides a “simplified” rendering of Arabic script, using basic connecting glyphs but not including a wide variety of additional ligatures or contextual alternates (only the required lam-alef ligatures). This simplified style is often preferred for clarity, especially in non-Arabic languages, but may not be considered appropriate in situations where a more elaborate style of calligraphy is preferred. The Latin letters are a subset of the [Doulos](https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?id=silencorefonts&site_id=nrsi) font.

Four fonts from this typeface family are included in the *Scheherazade New* release:

- Scheherazade New Regular
- Scheherazade New Medium
- Scheherazade New SemiBold
- Scheherazade New Bold


## Type Samples

Type samples showing some of the inventory of glyphs can be found here: 
[Scheherazade New Type Sample](sample.md).

Examples of some text is shown below. 

![Scheherazade New Sample - Four weights](../assets/images/weights.png){.fullsize}
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<figcaption>Scheherazade New Sample - Four weights</figcaption>
 

![Scheherazade New Sample - Genesis 11](../assets/images/ScheherazadeGen11.png){.fullsize}
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<figcaption>Scheherazade New Sample - Genesis 11</figcaption>

## Character Set

For a complete list of characters included in Scheherazade New, see [Character Set Support](charset.md).

## Honorific Ligatures

For a complete list of honorific ligatures included in Scheherazade New, see [Honorific Ligatures](honorifics.md).

## Rendering the Allah ligature

In certain types of literature, the name *Allah* and words related to this name are given unique rendering. For a list of the rendering rules, see [Rendering the Allah ligature](allah.md).

## Font Features

Alternate glyphs that are available through features are demonstrated in the [Features](features.md) document. 

SIL Global is the creator of the Scheherazade fonts, and is the owner of all proprietary rights therein.

*Scheherazade* is a trademark of SIL Global.
