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25 lines
1.2 KiB
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Scheherazade, named after the heroine of the classic Arabian Nights tale,
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is designed in a similar style to traditional typefaces such as Monotype Naskh,
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extended to cover the full Unicode Arabic repertoire.
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The goal for this product was to provide a single Unicode-based font family that
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would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any
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Arabic-based writing system. This font makes use of state-of-the-art font
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technologies to support complex typographic issues.
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This font provides a simplified rendering of Arabic script, using basic
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connecting glyphs but not including a wide variety of additional ligatures
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or contextual alternates (only the required lam-alef ligatures).
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This simplified style is often preferred for clarity, especially in
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non-Arabic languages, but may be considered unattractive in more traditional
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and literate communities.
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One font from this typeface family is included in this release:
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- Scheherazade Regular
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This release supports virtually all of the Unicode 5.0 Arabic character
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repertoire (excluding the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are not
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recommended for normal use). Font smarts are implemented using OpenType
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technology.
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