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Re: Is Anyone Designing Colour Fonts?
I built a color version of my Amiri Quran font where diacritic dots (these are part of the glyphs and have no decomposed forms in Unicode), Hamza and vowel marks have different colors from the main t…9 -
Re: Doesn't the forum webfont need refurbishing?
It is 2017, you don’t need all scripts in a single font file (and you can’t, the glyph limit for OpenType fonts is 65535 glyphs per font file). I think unicode-range is supported correctly by current…6 -
Re: Color will be the new Italic. Color will be the new Bold.
Red was used for various kinds of emphasis in Arabic manuscripts as well, it faded out with the advance of printing because it was cumbersome.1 -
Re: Fat-hatan on final Alef in Arabic
The use of different spelling is already the case, some people will spell it سببًا and others سبباً based on what school of thought they subscribe too :) That is not very dissimilar from how some Eng…1 -
Re: Why are composite glyphs not used whenever possible in exported TTF files?
My Amiri font currently has 6223 Arabic glyphs, of which only 512 are not composites. The composites are mostly base glyphs plus diacritical marks, but few of them are a bit more complex. I could hav…3
