Lateef is named after Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai, the famous Sindhi mystic and poet. It is intended to be an appropriate style for use in Sindhi and other languages of southern Asia.
Design
Lateef is intended to be an appropriate style for use in Sindhi and other languages of southern Asia. Seven weights for this typeface family are included. A type sample showing an inventory of some of the unusual of glyphs and features can be seen here: design type samples.
Font Features
This font uses state-of-the-art OpenType font technology including variant glyphs for a number of characters for use in particular contexts. Read more about our smart font features.
Character Set Support
This release supports virtually all of the Unicode 13.0 Arabic character repertoire (excluding the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are not recommended for normal use). Read more about our character set support.
Common questions
What are the differences between the Lateef and LateefGR fonts?
The most obvious difference is that Lateef only provides OpenType support and LateefGR only provides Graphite support. For a complete list of the differences, you can read the Release 1.200 announcement.
This version of Lateef is an OpenType font that includes all the kerning support that is currently only found in LateefGR. It also includes many more characters than were in LateefGR and Lateef version 1.001. Read the Release 2.000 announcement for all the changes in this font.
