Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google)
From TeX-D-L: Google sponsors development of a screen-optimized Arabic font.
Graham Douglas weist in seinem Blog darauf hin, daß Google derzeit die Entwicklung eines arabischen Fonts finanziert, der besonders für die Darstellung auf Bildschirmen optimiert worden ist. Die Entwicklung des Fonts wird im Blog fortlaufend dokumentiert.
Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper OpenType magic? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper OpenType magic?
I really wonder how relevant advanced typography would be in that case, where it relates to on-screen display. It seems to be more about hinting and similar issues. Arthur
Am 2011-03-18 um 12:01 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer:
Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper OpenType magic?
I really wonder how relevant advanced typography would be in that case, where it relates to on-screen display. It seems to be more about hinting and similar issues.
I don’t care about Arabic myself, but I thought it would be nice to have another choice for a free Arabic font to use with ConTeXt. Even if it’s screen optimized, it might work well in print, too - and some of use use ConTeXt more often for presentations anyway. Am 2011-03-18 um 12:15 schrieb Khaled Hosny:
They are, more or less, friends of mine, though I'm not sure I'll be around when the reach OpenType development stage, but I don't think the design they are after will require much of tricky OpenType hacks.
If your kind of expertise isn’t needed, the better - I can only see that your samples look impressive, but have no clue how excellent Arabic typography *should* look... ;-) Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:37:40AM +0100, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
From TeX-D-L:
Google sponsors development of a screen-optimized Arabic font.
Graham Douglas weist in seinem Blog darauf hin, daß Google derzeit die Entwicklung eines arabischen Fonts finanziert, der besonders für die Darstellung auf Bildschirmen optimiert worden ist. Die Entwicklung des Fonts wird im Blog fortlaufend dokumentiert.
Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper OpenType magic?
They are, more or less, friends of mine, though I'm not sure I'll be around when the reach OpenType development stage, but I don't think the design they are after will require much of tricky OpenType hacks. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab
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