Amiri (typeface)
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Category | Naskh |
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Designer(s) | Dr. Khaled Hosny |
Foundry | Alif Type |
Date created | September 19, 2010 |
Date released | December, 2011 |
Characters |
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Glyphs | 6000+ |
License | OFL |
Website | amirifont |
Latest release version | 1.000 |
Latest release date | December 3, 2022 |
Amiri (
Inspiration
Amiri is a revival of a
On the 1905 typeface and of challenges of digitizing Arabic script,[5] Dr. Hosny wrote: "One of the most novel features of the Bulaq typeface is maintaining the aesthetics of Naskh calligraphy while meeting the requirements (and limitations) of typesetting, a balance that is not easily achieved."
The Amiri project was supported by Google Web Fonts,[6] TeX Users Group,[7] and donations from users.[1]
Features
Amiri was released under the SIL Open Font License.[1]
The typeface itself has four styles: regular, bold, slanted, bold slanted, and two companions for Quranic typesetting: Amiri Quran and Amiri Quran Colored. All of which are available in TrueType outlines and OpenType format.
The Amiri font makes extensive use of OpenType features to produce automatic positioning and substitutions, including wide varieties of contextual forms,
The Amiri font itself was published and developed exclusively with free software, including FontForge, Inkscape, Python and VIM.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Hosny, Khaled (2012). "The Amiri typeface" (PDF). TUGboat. 33: 12.
- ^ "Amiri Font Project" مشروع الخط الأميري (in Arabic and English). Retrieved 2020-12-10.
- ^ "Google Fonts: Amiri". Google Fonts. Retrieved 2020-01-27.
- OCLC 993752295.
- ^ "Modernizing Arabic Type for a Digital Audience - Library". Google Design. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
- ^ "Google Fonts". Google Fonts. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
- ^ "CTAN: Package amiri". ctan.org. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
- ^ "Amiri Font" الخط الأمیری (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-12-10.