Amiri

Amiri font v0.101

Another Amiri font release in less than month (release early, release often ;). The main feature of this release is brand new bold and bold slanted fonts, so now we cover the four common styles, though more work on polishing them still needed. Check News file for more detailed changes of this release (Arabic, English)

Amiri 0.101 sample

Amiri 0.101 sample

الخط الأميري ٠٫١٠٠

إصدارة جديدة من الخط الأميري مع قفزة جديدة في رقم الإصدارة لتوضيح الانتقال من مرحلة ألفا إلى مرحلة بيتا :) (أرقام إصداراتي لامنطقية، لكن هكذا الحياة).

Amiri font v0.100

Yet another Amiri font release with yet another jump in version number, this time to mark the move from alpha stage to beta stage :) (my versioning scheme makes no sense, but so is life).

الخط الأميري ٠٫٠١٦

إصدارة جديدة أخرى من الخط الأميري، هذه المرة مع دعم مكتمل -نوعا- ما للرسم القرآني، وهي آخر ميزة مهمة كانت تنقص الخط، وربما بعد إصدارتين أو أقل يدخل الخط إلى مرخلة بيتا تمهيدا للإصدارة النهائية.

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أول سورة البقرة بالخط الأميري

أول سورة البقرة بالخط الأميري

Amiri font v0.016

Yet another developmental release of Amiri font, this time featuring a, more or less, complete Quranic support, which fixes the last major issue with the font, and I think it is only a couple of more alpha releases before it is ready to enter beta stage.

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Amiri font v0.015

Another developmental release of Amiri font, marking a major developmental milestone.

Amiri was developed using a novel, and natural, approach of separating dots from base of the glyph and treating them as diacritical marks (which what they really are), this allowed much more flexibility than the more conventional approach of treating the dot and its base as a whole.

In the early developmental stages things were fine, but as the need for more complex tasks surfaced, things were getting

Reduced Bulaq typecase

Reduced Bulaq typecase

The reduced Bulaq typecase, casted in 1950 to simplify the original, 1910, typecase, cutting it from 470 to 238 glyphs (not counting vowel marks).

Amiri font v0.014

A new bug fix release of Amiri font, fixing two serious Windows bug; one related to Lellah form and the other results in wrong placement of final Yaa dots.

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