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Scheherazade New, formerly Scheherazade, is a traditional Naskh styled font for Arabic script created by SIL, freely available under the Open Font License. It supports a wide range of Arabic-based writing system encoded in Unicode. The font offers two family members: regular and bold. [1]
Amiri (Arabic: أميري) is a naskh typeface for Arabic script designed by Khaled Hosny. [1] [2] The beta was released in December 2011. [1] As of October 22, 2019, it is hosted on 67,000 websites, and is served by the Google Fonts API approximately 74.8 million times per week. [3]
It contains both Latin and Arabic script. The font, released on 30 April 2017, is included as part of Microsoft's Windows 10 and Office 365, and is also available for free download. It will be used by all government departments in Dubai, according to the instruction of the Dubai Executive Council. It is the first Microsoft font named after a city.
These fonts contain all Arabic character defined in Unicode (see Arabic script in Unicode) for text in the various languages that use the Arabic script, but not all the redundant glyphs used in stylizing. Non-free fonts. If the previous fonts are not installed, other fallback fonts would display: SF Arabic (is a complete Apple font)
These modifications tend to fall into groups: Indian and Turkic languages written in the Arabic script tend to use the Persian modified letters, whereas the languages of Indonesia tend to imitate those of Jawi. The modified version of the Arabic script originally devised for use with Persian is known as the Perso-Arabic script by scholars.
The Free UCS Outline Fonts [1] (also known as freefont) is a font collection project. The project was started by Primož Peterlin and is currently administered by Steve White. The aim of this project has been to produce a package of fonts by collecting existing free fonts and special donations, to support as many Unicode characters as possible.
The rules governing ligature formation in Arabic can be quite complex, requiring special script-shaping technologies such as the Arabic Calligraphic Engine by Thomas Milo's DecoType. [2] As of Unicode 16.0, the Arabic script is contained in the following blocks: [3] Arabic (0600–06FF, 256 characters) Arabic Supplement (0750–077F, 48 characters)
Maghrebi script is directly derived from the Kufic script, [1] [2] [3] and is traditionally written with a pointed tip (القلم المدبَّب), producing a line of even thickness. [4] The script is characterized by rounded letter forms, extended horizontal features, and final open curves below the baseline.