Hi everyone again :) Seven months had passed, and now we have an alpha release, check the "release notes":
http://www.khaledhosny.org/node/152 Regards, Khaled On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 02:16:44PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote: > Hi everyone, > > As many of you might know, I've been working on a traditional, > Naskh-style Arabic font that is essentially a revival of the Naskh > typeface[1] employed by Bulaq press[1] in the first half of the last > century. > > What is unique about this Naskh typeface, is that it has been designed > specifically to be mechanically typeset (for metal type), with > simplified set of glyph substitution rules and greater readability, > while maintaining the aesthetic aspects of Naskh calligraphy. It is, to > my knowledge, the only Arabic typeface that have been designed with such > degree of care. The glyphs were calligraphed by Muhammad Ja'far; the > master calligrapher of his time. > > Bulaq typeface defined the standard of Arabic print typefaces, and there > are many digitization of it, either proprietary (Monotype Naskh, MS's > Traditional Arabic, and Linotype Lotus to some extent) or free (SIL's > Scheherazade), but neither takes full potential of advancements in font > technology to replicate all the desired aspects of the metal type. > > I've been working on the project for around a year now and it > progressing slowly but rather steadily. Almost all glyphs are drawn and > basic OpenType programming is done. > > I've been recently approached by people willing to accelerate the pace > of the development by funding the project so I can work on it full time > for a month or two and finish it. > > Last year I got a 1000$ grant from TUG[3], I got a promise for another > 1000$ (individual donation), if you are interested in funding this > project, please see [4] for more details. > > Regards, > Khaled > > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/amiri/wiki/Samples > [2] http://www.bibalex.org/bulaqpress > [3] http://tug.org/tc/devfund/grants.html > [4] http://code.google.com/p/amiri/wiki/Donate > > -- > Khaled Hosny > Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team > Free font developer -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
