Scheherazade New
CategoryNaskh
Designer(s)SIL International
Date released2015
LicenseSIL Open Font License

Scheherazade New, formerly Scheherazade, is a traditional Naskh styled font for Arabic script created by SIL, freely available under the Open Font License. It supports a wide range of Arabic-based writing system encoded in Unicode. The font offers two family members: regular and bold.[1]

Scheherazade New supports Graphite and OpenType technologies for contextual shaping, ligatures, and dynamic diacritics positioning, also provides advanced rendering features including localized forms, character variants.[2] It is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL),[3] and can be downloaded free of charge.[4]

Demonstration

Comparison of both versions at 400% size
Scheherazade ـݢـ   ـࢴـ   ـݣـ‎   ـࢰـ
Scheherazade New ـݢـ   ـࢴـ   ـݣـ‎   ـࢰـ
SF Arabic ـݢـ   ـࢴـ   ـݣـ‎   ـࢰـ

Notice that the earlier version looks smaller, but nevertheless has a more complete coverage of some rare characters and only one character failed to render properly. SF Arabic is here to demonstrate how the letters are supposed to look like; available to Apple users and has a complete Arabic coverage.[5]

For this demonstration to succeed, you need to install both fonts or import them from the web. Scheherazade is already a Wikimedia font, while Scheherazade New is available on Google Fonts.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Scheherazade New". 2 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Smart Font Features - Scheherazade New". Archived from the original on 2017-08-03. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  3. ↑ "SIL Open Font License (OFL)". scripts.sil.org. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  4. ↑ "Download page on sil.org". software.sil.org. 2 October 2014. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  5. ↑ "Fonts for Apple Platforms". Retrieved 14 February 2022.
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