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.

Here is the full release notes:

Amiri 0.016 (2011-09-22), Beginning of the End

• This release features full Quranic support, another major developmental milestone, more work still needed in refining glyph interaction specially mark positioning in fully vocalised text such as Quran.

• New glyphs:

  • All Quranic annotation marks in Unicode 6.0.
  • All other Arabic vowel marks in Unicode 6.0.
  • Radical (U+221A) including a RTL variant, and other Arabic radicals (U+0606, U+0607).
  • Arabic ray (U+0608).
  • Afghani sign (U+060B).
  • Arabic sign Misra (U+060F).
  • New contextual shape for initial meem followed by medial heh, as in مها.

• Kerning:

  • Decreased the number of kerning pairs from 411240 to 55850 while retaining the same functionality.

• Fixes:

  • General cleanup of punctuation marks, fixing spacing of brackets and making curly brackets more bolder to fit wit the rest of the font.
  • Made the space glyph 600 units wide.
  • Fixed erroneous tatweel (kashida) insertion in full justification.
  • Wider forms of some glyphs to avoid mark clash in full vowelisation.
  • Underline position is now lower than most glyphs with descendants.
  • Various mark positioning fixes.
  • Separate the ring of Kashmiri yeh from the body of base glyph, following Kashmiri orthographic traditions.