Khotot
From ويكي عربآيز
هذه الصفحة موجودة بالعربية تحت عنوان خطوط |
Khotot project aims at increasing the number of available Arabic free and open source fonts.
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Start date | Feb 27, 2003 |
Maintainer | خالد حسني |
Contributors | Afief Halumi :: khalid :: Fahad Al-Saidi :: Youssef |
Status | Active |
Mailing list | General |
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Contents
Goals
The goals of this project are:
- Create and/or salvage free and open TTF Arabic fonts.
- Create a central repository of all free and open source Arabic fonts (TTF and otherwise) in order to get them included into the various distributions.
- To better couple and artistically match Arabic fonts to their latin counterparts.
Samples
Download
From the projects main page.
Todos
Below a list of our TODO items, feel free to contact the maintainer and to pick one.
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Replace Latin glyphs with new free ones with better look.DONE -
Proper support for Arabic diacritics.DONE - Kerning.
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New license or dual licensing with GPL and OFL.DONE (GPL with font exception) - Fixed width (mono) font.
- Font variants (Bold, Italic etc...)
- More Unicode coverage for non-Arabic languages that use Arabic script.
- A fontconfig settings file to get best results from our fonts under X.
Release schedule
2.0
- Release date: 2nd half of August 2007. RELEASED
- Goal: Fixing diacritics issues.
3.0
- Release date: not determined yet.
- Goals:
- Ligatures related issues.
- Making Arabic fonts more clear at small sizes
- Mono font
4.0
- Release date: not determined yet.
- Goals:
- More use of advanced OpenType features, like contextual substitution and recursive anchors.
- More Unicode coverage.
5.0
- Release date: not determined yet.
- Goal: building and designing Arabic fonts based on the traditional calligraphic typefaces, Naskh, Reqa'a, Thuluth, Farsi and Diwani. This might be the most challenging task and it'll take long time.