{"id":20,"date":"2014-10-02T09:52:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T09:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2024-10-21T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T15:16:52","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lateef \u2014 A Sindhi style font<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Lateef<\/strong> is named after Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai, the famous Sindhi mystic and poet. Lateef provides a \u201csimplified\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>This font supports the style of lam-alef ligature which is often used by Sindhi and other languages of southern Asia. Additionally, diacritics on isolate and final forms of characters are left offset to the <i>nukat<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Seven weights for this typeface family are included. See below left for a brief sample of each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lateef \u2014 A Sindhi style font Lateef is named after Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai, the famous Sindhi mystic and poet. Lateef provides a \u201csimplified\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/lateef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}