Lorna | 21 October 2024

We are very pleased to announce a new release of Lateef, a font intended to be an appropriate style for use in Sindhi and other languages of the South Asian region.

Changes

This release includes the following changes for this version:

New

  • Added:
    • 0897 ARABIC PEPET
    • FD40 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHIMAHU ALLAAH
    • FD41 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANH
    • FD43 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHUM
    • FD44 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHUMAA
    • FD45 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHUNNA
    • FD46 ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAAHU ALAYHI WA-AALIH
    • FD48 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHIM AS-SALAAM
    • FD49 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHIMAA AS-SALAAM
    • FD4A ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHI AS-SALAATU WAS-SALAAM
    • FD4B ARABIC LIGATURE QUDDISA SIRRAH
    • FD4C ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHU ALAYHI WAAALIHEE WA-SALLAM
    • FD4D ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHAA AS-SALAAM
    • FD4E ARABIC LIGATURE TABAARAKA WA-TAAALAA
    • FD4F ARABIC LIGATURE RAHIMAHUM ALLAAH
    • FDFE ARABIC LIGATURE SUBHAANAHU WA TAAALAA
    • FDFF ARABIC LIGATURE AZZA WA JALL
    • 10EC2 ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
    • 10EC3 ARABIC LETTER TAH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
    • 10EC4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
    • 10EFC ARABIC COMBINING ALEF OVERLAY
  • Added support for Kashmiri language
  • Added facility to override default language behavior through feature selection
  • Added support for cv76 (dagger alef) on spacing characters and tatweel

Improved

  • Enlarged Arabic-style guillemet quotes
  • Enhanced positioning of U+06E2 ARABIC SMALL HIGH MEEM ISOLATED FORM next to adjacent vowel marks
  • Improved positioning of final YEH BARREE characters when preceeded by a character with two or three nukat below
  • Improved alef+mark positioning to reduce collisions
  • Improved madda reordering to comply with UAX #53
  • Documentation enhancements

Known issues

  • Shaping for the newly added characters may not yet occur in applications.
  • Medial and final high hamza characters may have collisions (these likely do not occur).
  • Lam + high hamza alef ligature does not form as it likely does not occur.
  • In Word: kerning of Arabic proportional digits is incorrect. This is a bug in Word.
  • In InDesign: some behaviors, such as the lam-alef ligature, raised kasra with shadda, and subtending marks, will not function correctly unless Ligatures is turned on in the Characters panel.

Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the Download page.