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April 2026

Scheherazade New 15 April 2026

Scheherazade New Release 4.500

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: … read more

August 2025

Scheherazade New 11 August 2025

Scheherazade New Release 4.400

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: … read more

October 2024

Scheherazade New 21 October 2024

Release 4.300

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: … read more

April 2023

Scheherazade New 14 April 2023

Release 4.000

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 (… read more

November 2021

Scheherazade New 22 November 2021

Release 3.300

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… read more

July 2021

Scheherazade New 15 July 2021

Release 3.200

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 wor… read more

March 2021

Scheherazade New 25 March 2021

Release 3.100

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-ale… read more

November 2020

Scheherazade New 5 November 2020

Release 3.000

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 refle… read more

August 2015

Scheherazade New 20 August 2015

Release 2.100

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… read more

February 2014

Scheherazade New 12 February 2014

Release 2.020

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 – Downlo… read more

September 2013

Scheherazade New 12 September 2013

Release 2.010

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 b… read more

August 2013

Scheherazade New 1 August 2013

Release 2.000

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 add… read more

February 2011

Scheherazade New 8 February 2011

Release 1.005

This release includes the following changes for this version: Change to Open Font License Added SIL TypeTuner tables to make it possible to access alternate behaviors of the fonts. To download fonts w… read more

June 2005

Scheherazade New 2 June 2005

Release 1.000

This release includes the following changes for this version: Original release for OpenType and AAT Download the release packages from the Previous Versions – Download Page.… read more