Anthony J. Bentley:
> George Rosamond writes:
>> pkg/DESCR:
>>
>> Mada is a modernist, low-contrast Arabic typeface based largely on
>> the typeface seen in Cairo metro old signage which was designed by
>> Professor Fathi Gouda of Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University.
>>
>> Mada is characterised by low descenders, open contours and low-
>> contrast forms making it suitable for small point sizes, user
>> interfaces, signage or low resolution settings.
>>
>> Mada can work also as a display typeface giving modernist and
>> simplistic feeling.
>>
>> Mada comes in 7 weights (ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold,
>> Bold and Black), as well as an interpolatable variable font that
>> can provide any intermediate weight on the fly.
> 
> Two small things.
> 
> One, DESCR is a little narrow. 80-ish columns would be better.

odd that happened.  Fixed.

> 
>> MASTER_SITES =          https://github.com/alif-type/mada/archive/
> 
> We prefer "/releases/download/" URLs if they exist, and one exists
> for this port (Mada-1.3.zip on the releases page). The reason is that
> "/archive/" tarballs are generated on the fly and do not have stable
> checksums.
> 
> With those two small changes, this is ok with me.

Got it.

Attached.  Thanks Anthony..

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