Hello
I hope you doing well guys, I have a new Arabic font system different from than regular Arabic font style. I am in a plan to invest in my creation and make a cost estimate for starting to get the project fund. this project starts from scratch so I need your help guys to figure out these questions.
Where I should start?
What the cost of the requirements?
If I want to make the new type system useable in all operating systems environments, online and smart devices
Thanks
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It is a project to apply high logic to the characters of Arabic calligraphy in separated upper and lower cases like the English typeface. In Arabic classic style, there are 4 positions for each glyph but in my style, it will be only 2 positions.
https://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/46037#Comment_46037
You already there John
2. Why not make use of the new technologies?!
https://typedrawers.com/discussion/3631/flying-high-quranic-arabic-jawi-pegon-gundul-fonts
3. Making use of Telegram? https://telegram.org/
Please go explore my private link https://t.me/FonJawi
https://twitter.com/Kaledm74/status/1216698924926410752/photo/1
Sorry, I don't use Telegram only Twitter.
Nice to pass
I wonder how they will be written from right to left!
1. Latin = Thirty-four (34) stand-alone, and almost dot-less letters.
That's right: Thirty-four (34) letterforms without dots = Twenty-six (26) capitals + eight (8) lowercase letters (abdeghqr), not taking into account the differences in the other eighteen (18).
2. Arabic: Dropping dots, nineteen (19) dancing letters, five (5) of them do not connect with the following ones, namely Alif, Waw, Dal, Ra and Hamza (ا،و،د،ر،ء), while the other fourteen (14) shrink ends when connecting one another making ligatures with three (3) namely Meem Ha, and Kh (م،هـ،ح), whereas they expand tails to overlap the other five, reflecting their positions in the word (in the beginning, middle, or end).
The new script (Raqeem typeface )printing and writing differs from the classic Arabic Jazem script (خط الجزم) and all types of created fonts that evolved with Jazem script which we used now days. In my latest characters update for my new system, the number of dotted characters is reduced to 5 letters. This system is written from right to left and may neglect the diacritics in the beginning because it aims to achieve specific goals, not including codification or documentation. Some of those who had been introduced to the characters did not accept it, others accepted it. I note those who did not accept it were less educated or cultured.
Hope you don't mind uploading an image to a meaningful 3-word or longer phrase written in your yet-to-be-approved Arabic typeface.
Second, when you do something like that, you invite issues with caching of the original unmodified font. But this can also happen with consecutive versions of your own new font. You need to make sure the apps have forgotten about the original.
With your own original font, usually you can just uninstall it, launch the app and start a new document, then quit the app, and install the new font version.
I wrote a blog post about some of this a year and a half ago: https://www.thomasphinney.com/2018/11/changing-font-versions/