We are very pleased to announce a new release of Scheherazade New, an Arabic script font designed in the traditional Naskh style. Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: New Added: U+0897 ARABIC PEPET U+10EC2 ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW U+10EC3 ARABIC LETTER TAH… Read More
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: New Added Medium and SemiBold weights Added Arabic-style (rounded) versions of chevron quotes Added Bold calligraphic honorifics (previous ones were the same weight as Regular) Added: U+201B SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK U+201F DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK U+10EFD ARABIC SMALL LOW… Read More
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: Added U+061D, U+0870..U+088E, U+0890..U+0891, U+0898..U+089F, U+08B5, U+08C8..U+08D2 Added bold version of glyph for U+08AD ARABIC LETTER LOW ALEF Added decimal separator feature (cv85) Added a longer kashida for cases where diacritics are above or below U+0640 ARABIC TATWEEL Revised… Read More
Changes The only change in this release is to add the new Unicode 14.0 codepoints to the honorifics. At this point either the Private Usa Area (PUA) codepoints, or the Unicode 14.0 codepoints will work. Our intent is to remove the PUA codepoints in about a year. This should give… Read More
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: Fixed Graphite bug related to spacing of U+2E41 Fixed OpenType bug with diacritic position (in the context of a shadda) on lam-alef Fixed OpenType bug in context of kashida insertion (affected diacritics and spacing) Fixed misencoded Delta (U+2209 to U+2206)… Read More
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: Renamed font to Scheherazade New Resizing Resized glyphs to better fit standard Arabic script fonts Adjusted line-spacing to reflect larger characters Adjusted underline and strikethrough positions and weight New characters Updated Arabic script character repertoire to support all characters in… Read More
Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: Added Scheherazade Bold font Slight improvements in design of the Regular face: U+060C ARABIC COMMA U+061B ARABIC SEMICOLON U+065D ARABIC REVERSED DAMMA U+0671 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WASLA (improvement in wasla) U+06C1 ARABIC LETTER HEH GOAL U+08AA ARABIC LETTER REH WITH… Read More
This release includes the following changes for this version: Fix language-specific OpenType rendering for Sindhi, Urdu, Kurdish Download the release packages from the Previous Versions – Download Page. Read More
This release includes the following changes for this version: Fix rendering of mixtures of upper and lower combining marks Fix Graphite shaping for U+08AC ARABIC LETTER ROHINGYA YEH Reduce font size by taking advantage of composite TT glyphs Download the release packages from the Previous Versions – Download Page. Read More
This release includes the following changes for this version: Looser line-spacing (leading) to better support languages using many combining marks Added support for Unicode 5.1, 6.0 and 6.1 Arabic additions Added characters that are not officially in Unicode. They are in the “pipeline.” Please note that there is a slight… Read More