Currently, Arabeyes fonts covers only basic Arabic code point (i.e. Arabic language only, no Persian etc. nor special Quranic marks). I wouldn't suggest Arabeyes fonts for any serious work, ironically I'm the maintainer of it, the fonts are of poor quality and generally decorative fonts not for running text. If you can afford buying commercial fonts, I'd suggest one of Linotype fonts (Lotus is the standard font for books nowadays, Yakout used to be the standard newspaper's font, and still used by many newspapers). For free fonts, SIL's Scheherazade is a good font, and covers virtually all languages written in Arabic script, but it has some aesthetically poor aspects. We have some projects for high quality fonts for print, but still work in progress and it is too early to say when it'll be ready. Regards, Khaled On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:00:58AM +0200, Sabine Emmy Eller wrote: > Btw. in the meantime a chat member gave me links to scripts for Arabi, Persian > and Urdu, but the second question still remains and of course: we would like to > have really "nice looking fonts" for each language, so we are very interested > in native speaker's opinions about which fonts to use. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sabine Emmy Eller <s dot eller at voxhumanitatis dot org> > Date: Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:05 PM > Subject: Fwd: Khotot - Arabic fonts > To: general at arabeyes dot org > > > Unfortunately contact at arabeyes dot org does not work. I was given this e-mail > address in the chat and hope I can reach you. > > Sabine > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Sabine Emmy Eller <s dot eller at voxhumanitatis dot org> > Date: Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:42 PM > Subject: Khotot - Arabic fonts > To: contact at arabeyes dot org > Cc: Bèrto ëd Sèra <berto dot d dot sera at voxhumanitatis dot org> > > > Good evening! > > My name is Sabine Emmy Eller and I am the CCO of Vox Humanitatis which is > developing a multilingual dictionary called Ambaradan. In order to display the > Arabic alphabet properly we are searching for Arabic fonts that are well > visible and as complete as possible, since Arabic script is used for a variety > of languages. I found your font project Khotot and downloaded the file. What I > cannot find is which Unicode characters are covered by it. Do you have some > indication on that can help us? > > If you wish further information about the multilingual dictionary, please visit > this link: > http://voxhumanitatis.org/content/ambaradan-owm2-storage-engine > As you might note: it is not just a dictionary, but can be used in many other > ways, just to serve any contents in any language > > Maybe a general co-operation for Arabic language could be a common goal? You > also maintain a wordlist we could add to our dictionary so that people can > easily work on it and also add to it, not only Arabic words, but also > translations. > > Tomorrow is your week-end holiday, so have a nice Friday! > > Kind regards, > > Sabine Emmy Eller > CCO - Vox Humanitatis > s dot eller at voxhumanitatis dot org > skype: sabinecretella > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at arabeyes dot org > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
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