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Sans Serif Arabic-Latin text typeface

7.3

1 year ago
  • design reviews and updates, most on Latin part(a-J-%-)
  • ™(Trade Mark glyph) added
  • 'æ' alternates(same as 'a' alternate added before) in ss04
  • kerning add for 'j()[]{}'
  • bug fix in Arabic part(U+066E final form)

7.2

1 year ago
  • design review update(a-d-u-v-t-f-s-...)
  • side bearing of [a-z] increased by 5%
  • width of small caps digits increased
  • alternate a added in ss04

7.1

1 year ago
  • a little Hacking on super/sub script numbers position and kernings with caps and base numbers before them
  • new № sign

7.0

1 year ago
  • a little redesign on both letters and punctuation, and adding/improving inktraps.
  • new circled and negative circled Latin 1 to 20 digits.
  • weight of marks a little increased.
  • nonlinear weight axis mapping.
  • some modification on Kurdish(U+FBAA - HEH DOACHASHMEE ISOLATED) and Urdu(U+FBA8 - HEH GOAL INITIAL) glyphs and opentype entries.
  • base to caps fractions are now default and Descender to Ascender fractions are removed.
  • Ascender/Descender decreased.
  • Latin numbers with letters kernings added(like V/W/v/w with 7/1)
  • Arabic combining with numbers signs(U+0600 to U+0604) improved in design with bigger numbers.
  • and etc ...

6.1

2 years ago
  • kerning bug fix

6.0

2 years ago
  • some improvement in letter design and curves qualities.
  • new opentype features to support End of Ayah(U+06DD), Arabic number sign(U+0600), Arabic sign sanah(U+0601), Arabic footnote marker(U+0602), Arabic sign safha(U+0603), Arabic sign samvat(U+0604) with Arabic and Farsi numbers.
  • weight saturation of Black master a little bit reduced.
  • kerning method changed from pair to contextual positioning. it's very lighter.
  • left side of Arabic Reh(U+0631) and right side of Arabic Keheh(U+06A9) and similar letters have negative values now to better composite with space in texts and less kerning codes in opentype.
  • some advanced Quran marking methods now supporting.
  • mark feature for decomposed forms(limited to basic a-z A-Z letters) added.
  • a huge amount of bug fix and improvements (fontbakery report)
  • and etc ...

5.0(2)

3 years ago

*FD(Farsi digits instead Latin) with adapted kerning table added to the repository

5.0

3 years ago
  • most part of the glyphs redesigned again!
  • new black and thin weights (weight range increased)
  • Unicode range increased to support (about) all languages in Arabic and Latin scripts.
  • multiple substitutions changed to single substitutions in all calt features due to work properly in Adobe programs. #8
  • some changes in Arabic dot components and connections.
  • Arabic Isolated glyphs added.
  • static fonts number increased to 9 standard weights.
  • the name of width axis in variable font changed to kashida axis.
  • Number of masters in variable font increased to 6

4.0

4 years ago
  • most letters redesigned again.
  • variable version has a different name now (Estedad-VF)
  • FD(Farsi digits instead Latin) and OA(only with Arabic glyphs) versions added to the package.
  • a different and better way used to kerning space with letters. (still not working in chrome, obviously)

3.0

4 years ago

3rd version of Estedad:

  • a large amount of improves in designing of many glyphs.
  • Latin letters side breathing improved according to Roboto, now it looks better with less kerning codes.
  • problems fixed about naming cause can't choosing weights in mac OS and some in programs (like inkscape).
  • Variable version added with two axes; weight(100-900) and width(100-200).