Release of Scheherazade New, Harmattan, Lateef v4.300 (Arabic script fonts)

[SIL Font News]

Greetings,

We've just released version 4.300 of our Scheherazade New, Harmattan, and Lateef (Arabic script) fonts:

    Scheherazade New: https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/download/
        List of changes: https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/release-4-300/

    Harmattan: https://software.sil.org/harmattan/download/
        List of changes: https://software.sil.org/harmattan/release-4-300/

    Lateef: https://software.sil.org/lateef/download/
        List of changes: https://software.sil.org/lateef/release-4-300/

Highlights:

• All three fonts now support Unicode 16.0 (Shaping for the newly added characters may not yet occur in applications.)
• Added facility to override default language behavior through feature selection
• Improved alef+mark positioning to reduce collisions
• Lateef-only: Enlarged Arabic-style guillemet quotes
• Lateef-only: now includes the same set of honorifics as Scheherazade New. However, we do not include the simplified variants for Lateef

The v4.300 fonts are also available on SIL TypeTuner Web, which allows you to create customized versions of the fonts to meet your specific needs.

If you need technical support or want to contact us please use the contact forms on the font websites.

The SIL Writing Systems Technology Team