Releases: silnrsi/font-awami
Awami Nastaliq v3.300
We are happy to announce the release of Awami Nastaliq version 3.300. This is a maintenance release of Awami Nastaliq.
Changes
Improved
- Fixed issue with wasla collisions
New
- Added support for Kashmiri language
- Added support for Gojri language
- Added 15 characters:
- U+08F7 ARABIC LEFT ARROWHEAD ABOVE (for Burushaski)
- U+FBC6 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHIM (this character is not officially in Unicode, it is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)
- U+FBC7 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHIMAA (this character is not officially in Unicode, it is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)
- U+FD40 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHIMAHU ALLAAH
- U+FD41 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANH
- U+FD42 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHAA
- U+FD43 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHUM
- U+FD44 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHUMAA
- U+FD45 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHUNNA
- U+FD48 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHIM AS-SALAAM
- U+FD49 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHIMAA AS-SALAAM
- U+FD4D ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHAA AS-SALAAM
- U+FD90 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYH (this character is not officially in Unicode, it is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)
- U+FD91 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHAA (this character is not officially in Unicode, it is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)
- U+FDFE ARABIC LIGATURE SUBHAANAHU WA TAAALAA
Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the Download Page.
Known issues
The following characters are not officially in Unicode. The codepoints could still change.
- U+FBC6 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHIM
- U+FBC7 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHIMAA
- U+FD90 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYH
- U+FD91 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHAA
- U+10ED0 ARABIC BIBLICAL END OF VERSE
Awami Nastaliq v3.200
We are happy to announce the release of Awami Nastaliq version 3.200. This is a maintenance release of Awami Nastaliq.
This release supports only a few new characters. However, it enables support for the Kazakh, Malay, and Uyghur languages.
Changes
Improved
- Fixed bug in dot removal for YEH followed by COMBINING Hamza (U+064A U+0654)
- Fixed some minor kerning/collision/spacing bugs
- Changed shape of mark on 06C7 (Arabic U) to look like a comma instead of a pesh
- Created bold forms of the honorifics
- Changed PUA codepoint U+E003 to U+FD47 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHI AS-SALAAM
- Corrected weight class of Medium, SemiBold, and ExtraBold fonts
New
- Added six characters:
- U+06A0 ARABIC LETTER AIN WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE
- U+06AD ARABIC LETTER NG
- U+06BD ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE
- U+0762 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH DOT ABOVE
- U+FDCF ARABIC LIGATURE SALAAMUHU ALAYNAA
- U+10ED0 ARABIC BIBLICAL END OF VERSE (this character is not officially in Unicode, it is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)
Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the Download Page.
Known issues
- U+10ED0 ARABIC BIBLICAL END OF VERSE is not officially in Unicode. The codepoint could still change.
- U+E003 was a PUA codepoint. We have reencoded it to the proper codepoint at U+FD47 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHI AS-SALAAM. If the PUA codepoint U+E003 was used, it should be replaced by U+FD47.
Awami Nastaliq v3.100
This is a maintenance release of Awami Nastaliq.
Changes
Improved
- Fixed a kerning bug that manifested as disappearing glyphs
- Fixed some minor kerning/collision/spacing bugs
Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the Download Page.
Known issues
- No known issues
Awami Nastaliq v3.000
Awami Nastaliq 3.000 is a major release of the Awami Nastaliq font.
Five fonts from this typeface family are now included in this release:
- Awami Nastaliq Regular
- Awami Nastaliq Medium
- Awami Nastaliq SemiBold
- Awami Nastaliq Bold
- Awami Nastaliq ExtraBold
Changes
New
- Added 4 weights -- Medium, SemiBold, Bold, and ExtraBold
- Added three characters:
- U+08C8 ARABIC LETTER GRAF
- U+069B ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
- U+069C ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW AND THREE DOTS ABOVE
Improved
- Modified rules for forming the Allah ligature
- Fixed a bug affecting the right margin
- Fixed a problem with the behavior of the yeh with hamza
- Added a short version of the final sad
- Various improvements to beh/noon/teh/yeh forms
- Collision fixes
- Changed the default value of the short forms feature to use all short forms
- Added a special form of khah+zabar+meem+jeem+heh-doachashmee to avoid excessive height
- Flattened a couple of special ligatures
- Changed dopesh to use 69 form consistently
Removed
- Removed "Small nuqtas" feature
Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the Download Page.
Known issues
- No known issues
Awami Nastaliq v2.900 (beta)
We’re happy to announce that an beta version of Awami Nastaliq is now available for testing.
Five fonts from this typeface family are included in this beta release:
- Awami Nastaliq Regular
- Awami Nastaliq Medium
- Awami Nastaliq SemiBold
- Awami Nastaliq Bold
- Awami Nastaliq ExtraBold
The full range of weights is accessed in different ways depending on the application. See the FAQ for details.
Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package below.
Providing Feedback
We would like to receive all feedback on this version by August 31, 2022. Email Sharon with your feedback as you find issues. Do not wait to combine all your feedback in one email.
Specifically we are interested in any collisions you see in the weights other than Regular.
Changes since the alpha
- Renamed Book weight to Medium and Book Bold weight to ExtraBold
- Added SemiBold weight
- Added two characters:
- U+08C8 ARABIC LETTER GRAF
- U+069B ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
- Modified rules for generating Allah ligature
- Fixed a bug affecting the right margin
- Fixed a problem with the behavior of the yeh with hamza
- Added a short version of the final sad
- Added a special form of khah+zabar+meem+jeem+heh-doachashmee to avoid excessive height
- Various improvements to bold forms and beh forms
- Collision fixes
- Removed "Small nuqtas" feature
Known issues
Ligatures such as bismillah, alayhi as-salaam, etc. do not currently have special bold forms. Please let us know if you see a need for these.
Awami Nastaliq v2.800 (alpha)
We’re happy to announce that an alpha version of Awami Nastaliq is now available for testing. This alpha includes bold weights that are not ready for production use, although you may find them useful already.
There are four weights in two font families:
- Awami Nastaliq (Regular and Bold)
- Awami Nastaliq Book (Regular and Bold) - a little heavier than the normal Regular and Bold
Providing Feedback
It would be useful if you could send us feedback as you discover issues (rather than sending all the feedback at the end), so that we can prioritise and begin work on these. Screenshots, annotated where necessary, are very useful to visualize reported issues. If you need a design change, it is also helpful if you can quantify that, e.g. “20% bigger” or “similar to the instroke of initial beh”, etc. A complete word or sequence is necessary to describe the context in which the problemative character occurs. We’re also interested in what worked well for you.
We really need people to install and use the font for about a month. We’d like you to test the fonts in the applications that you use for Arabic text. Testing in FLeX, InDesign, LibreOffice, Word, XeTeX, Paratext, Bloom, SAB, etc. would be especially welcome. Please include in your feedback the application version and OS version you used.
Note that the Regular font is called “Awami Nastaliq” so that installing it will overwrite your current font installation.
Testing
We’re particularly interested in feedback in the following areas:
- Heaviness of bold weights
- Shape of bold letters
- Distance of marks and nuqta from character bases in bold
- Size of the bold nuqta
- Spacing for bold weights
- Collisions that exist in bold but not in regular
Changes
- Added Bold weight and Book and Book Bold versions
- Changed the default value of the short forms feature to use all short forms
- Flattened a couple of special ligatures
- Changed dopesh to use 69 form consistently
Known Issues
- Some new characters are needed.
- Some letter sequences might need to be flattened.
- Some custom abbreviations are needed.
- The sequence بیچ may need improvement.
- A few forms need to have their nuqtas adjusted.
- We need to clarify the kerning rules for the full stop (period).
- Diacritics (e.g., zer/kasra) under the final lam are too low.
- Diacritics on the hamza might need improvement.
Awami Nastaliq v2.200
Awami Nastaliq 2.200 is a maintenance release of the Awami Nastaliq font. Changes to this font include:
- Improved spacing and kerning involving punctuation
- Corrected nuqtas in dul character
- Fixed collision bug that manifested itself in Paratext
- Fixed other obscure bugs
The changes to spacing and kerning are significant, and we highly recommended upgrading from version 2.100.
Awami Nastaliq v2.100
Awami Nastaliq 2.100 is a maintenance release of the Awami Nastaliq font. Changes to this font include:
- Added four honorific ligatures
- U+FDFA ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHEWASALLAM
- U+FDFB ARABIC LIGATURE JALLAJALALOUHOU
- U+FDFD ARABIC LIGATURE BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN AR-RAHEEM
- U+E003 ALAYHI AS-SALAAM
- Added U+075A DAL WITH INVERTED SMALL V BELOW
- Adjusted shapes of lam + alef combination, certain reh forms, medial heh goal + reh
- Adjusted position of honorific diacritics
- Added special ligature forms for three words
- Added short forms of jeem+bariyeh, beh+qaf/waw, final jeem, final ain
- Added wider form of jeem+kaf combination where needed
- Improved alignment of kafs, alef, and bariyeh with the right margin
- Improved kerning
Awami Nastaliq v2.000
This is a major release of Awami Nastaliq. Changes in this version include:
- Ten new characters - U+06C8, U+06CA, U+06CB, U+06CF, U+077E, U+077F, U+0695, U+06A4, U+08C7, U+221A
- Adjust behavior of nuqtas over sequences of beh/teh/theh/peh/etc.
- Changed shape of beh+seen and beh+sad before sad, tah, ain, feh, qaf, and final noon.
- Improved glyph-shape approximations for automatic collision fixing
- Adjusted shape of meem heads
- Adjusted behavior of final-reh + zer
- Added and tweaked anchors
- Added smaller flat nukta for certain cases
- Adjusted shape of pre-jeem medial lam, keheh and gaf
- Adjusted position of salaam ulena ligature
- Adjusted position of Arabic zero characters
- Reduced size of U+060E
- Fixed bugs in bariyeh attachments
- Removed "Show invisible characters" feature
- Fixed bug in "Hamza" feature (Arabic style setting)
- Adjusted design of U+06BA (noon ghunna) to match Unicode recommendations
- Tweaked glyph shapes and sizes
Awami Nastaliq v1.101
Awami Nastaliq 1.101 is a maintenance release of the Awami Nastaliq font.
Changes to this font include:
- Fixed bug in positioning of final reh