Scheherazade New, formerly Scheherazade, is a traditional
Naskh styled font for
Arabic script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script), the second-most widel ...
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.
Scheherazade New supports
Graphite
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and
OpenType technologies for contextual shaping, ligatures, and dynamic diacritics positioning, also provides advanced rendering features including localized forms, character variants. It is licensed under the
SIL Open Font License (OFL),
and can be downloaded free of charge.
Demonstration
Notice that the earlier version looks smaller, but nevertheless has a more complete coverage of some rare characters and only one character failed to render properly. ''SF Arabic'' is here to demonstrate how the letters are supposed to look like; available to ''
Apple
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'' users and has a complete Arabic coverage.
For this demonstration to succeed, you need to install both fonts or
import them from the web. ''Scheherazade'' is already a
/www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/WebFonts Wikimedia font while ''Scheherazade New'' is available on
/fonts.google.com/specimen/Scheherazade+New?subset=arabic Google Fonts
See also
*
Naskh script
References
External links
Scheherazade New homepage
{{free and open-source typography
Arabic typefaces
Free software Unicode typefaces