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Font (Kitab)

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Kitab

Kitab, based on , is an Arabic font with a design based on traditional typefaces such as Monotype Naskh, extended to cover the full Unicode Arabic repertoire.

Changes

  • Increased the base font size.

  • Decreased the base line height.

  • Added the Basmalah (U+FDFD), ﷺ, and ﷻ characters from Amiri.

  • Replaced the angle quotes and ayah quotes with Amiri's (i.e., «» and ﴿﴾).

  • Replaced U+06E0 (small high upright rectangular zero) with Amiri's.

  • Added laam hamzah alif ligature (i.e., لا but with a hamzah in the middle).

    This is needed for Quranic orthography (e.g. الـٔاخرة).

    Currently there is no pure Unicode solution for this

  • The width of ۩ (U+06E9) was increased.

  • A slight curve was added to U+0670 (Small alif).

The follow glyphs were enlarged:

  • U+06E4 (Small high maddah)

  • U+06DB (Small high 3 dots)

  • U+06D8 (Small high meem initial form)

  • U+06E5 (Small waaw)

The following glyphs were made to be lower on "the line" when in a word.

  • U+0654 (Hamzah above) (أَنۢبِـُٔونِی)

  • U+06E7 (Small high yaa) (ٱلنَّبِیِّـۧنَ)

  • U+06E4 (madd) when on top of U+06E6 (small yaa) (یَسۡتَحۡیِۦۤ)

The following honorifics were added (note: these honorifics are set to be included in Unicode 14)

  • U+FDFE (سبحانه وتعالى)

  • U+FDFF (عز وجل)

  • U+FD40 (رحمه الله)

  • U+FD41 (رضي الله عنه)

  • U+FD42 (رضي الله عنها)

  • U+FD43 (رضي الله عنهم)

  • U+FD44 (رضي الله عنهما)

  • U+FD45 (رضي الله عنهن)

  • U+FD47 (عليه السلام)

  • U+FD4D (عليها السلام)

  • U+FD48 (عليهم السلام)

  • U+FD49 (عليهما السلام)

License

This font software is free to use, modify, and redistribute according to the terms of the .

The font is available for any mistakes or problems please report in the .

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