{"id":255,"date":"2015-09-17T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/?page_id=255"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:57:29","slug":"design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/design\/","title":{"rendered":"Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scheherazade New 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, but may not be considered appropriate in situations where a more elaborate style of calligraphy is preferred. The Latin letters are a subset of the <a href=\"https:\/\/scripts.sil.org\/cms\/scripts\/page.php?id=silencorefonts&amp;site_id=nrsi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Doulos<\/a> font.<\/p>\n<p>Four fonts from this typeface family are included in the <em>Scheherazade New<\/em> release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scheherazade New Regular<\/li>\n<li>Scheherazade New Medium<\/li>\n<li>Scheherazade New SemiBold<\/li>\n<li>Scheherazade New Bold<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Type Samples<\/h2>\n<p>Type samples showing some of the inventory of glyphs can be found here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"sample\">Scheherazade New Type Sample<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of some text is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img class='fullsize' alt='Scheherazade New Sample - Four weights' src='https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2023\/04\/weights.png' \/><br \/>\n<em>Scheherazade New Sample &#8211; Four weights<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img class='fullsize' alt='Scheherazade New Sample - Genesis 11' src='https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/03\/ScheherazadeGen11.png' \/><br \/>\n<em>Scheherazade New Sample &#8211; Genesis 11<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Character Set<\/h2>\n<p>For a complete list of characters included in Scheherazade New, see <a href=\"charset\">Character Set Support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Honorific Ligatures<\/h2>\n<p>For a complete list of honorific ligatures included in Scheherazade New, see <a href=\"honorifics\">Honorific Ligatures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Rendering the Allah ligature<\/h2>\n<p>In certain types of literature, the name <em>Allah<\/em> and words related to this name are given unique rendering. For a list of the rendering rules, see <a href=\"allah\">Rendering the Allah ligature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Font Features<\/h2>\n<p>Alternate glyphs that are available through features are demonstrated in the <a href=\"features\">Features<\/a> document.<\/p>\n<p>SIL Global is the creator of the Scheherazade fonts, and is the owner of all proprietary rights therein.<\/p>\n<p><em>Scheherazade<\/em> is a trademark of SIL Global.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheherazade New 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, but may not be considered appropriate in situations where a more elaborate style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-255","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/255\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}