The biggest issue preventing support for “rand” feature is, well, the randomness. Many implementations and applications need predictable results; if you give it the same text, font, and set of featur… (View Post)
BTW, this kind of thing can be done with Graphite (and probably AAT) fonts since all the shaping logic is in the font and the shaping engine is not script-aware at all, but it is still not something … (View Post)
@"James Puckett": No, I didn’t. It is pretty hard to self study Arabic calligraphy since available material are showcases or training material, the actual rules are rarely spelled out and e… (View Post)
I do that all the time, I’ve currently 4 Arabic fonts built this way and they work with any good enough OpenType implementation (Aref Ruqaa, Mada, Reem Kufi, and Amiri Typewriter, if you want example… (View Post)