Granite Arabic

Nathan Zimet
Posts: 76
Hello
I am trying to draw arabic support for Granite and was hoping maybe some of you could give some suggestions.
The font does not have any ligatures yet.
Please see the attached .pdf for running text.

The font does not have any ligatures yet.
Please see the attached .pdf for running text.

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Are you going to expand your Granite typeface to:1. support some or All the Arabic-based scripts like Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki, Kazakh, Uyghur, Punjabi, Khowar (Chitrali), Malay (Jawi), Balochi, Brahui, Kurdi (Kurdish), Kashmiri (Koshur), Kirghiz, Ozbek, Turkmen, Gawri (Kalami) and Pegon?2. include partital or full Arabic ligatures i.e. at the begining, middle and end?Make use of Telegram? https://telegram.org/Hope the files at my link help https://t.me/FonJawiHappy font building and editing0
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Hi Aziz - Thanks for your response. It seems you have a lot of files in Telegram. Could you point me to any specific ones?
The font currently has positional alternates for initial medial and finial forms, but no special ligatures yet (for example: Lam-Alef, Feh-Yeh, or Seen-Reh).0 -
Well. Just selecting and uploading these three (3) files.All the Best0
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Done some work do you think it's an improvement?
See the attached pdf for running text0 -
Ya! Better if the hamza of waw and the dots of the following letters are brought closer to their shapesذ ججج ج ظظظ ضضض ؤ ـؤAll the Best1
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