# Font (Kitab)

## Kitab

Kitab, based on [Scheherazade](https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/), 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 [SIL Open Font License](http://scripts.sil.org/ofl).

The font is available [here, ](https://github.com/quranacademy/kitab-font)for any mistakes or problems please report in the [issues ](https://github.com/quranacademy/kitab-font/issues).


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