Release of Akatab 3.000 (Tifinagh script font)

[SIL Font News]

We are pleased to announce the release of Akatab 3.000. Changes include:

- Added 4 weights: Medium, SemiBold, ExtraBold, and Black
- Added new features:
    - Character Variants: cv08-cv15, cv19, cv20, cv41-cv48
    - Required Contextual Alternates: rclt
    - Required Ligatures: rlig
    - Stylistic Sets: ss08-15, ss19, ss20
- Added UI name strings for Character Variants and Stylistic Sets features
- Added characters:
    - U+2D33 TIFINAGH LETTER YAG
    - U+2D58 TIFINAGH LETTER AYER YAGH (Adrar yaj, Tuareg staggered five-points)
    - U+2D64 TIFINAGH LETTER TAWELLEMET YAZ (harpoon yaz)
- Added 8 variant characters and one right-to-left counterpart
- Added 9 bi-consonant ligatures, 21 ligature variants and 18 right-to-left counterparts
- Added glyphs for SIL vowels
- Fixed advance width of enspace, emspace, threeperemspace, fourperemspace and sixperemspace glyphs
- Removed Graphite support

Akatab is a Unicode font for rendering Tifinagh characters in the Tamahaq, Tamashek and Tawallammat languages. Akatab (means writing) is designed to reflect a handwriting style and even the “writing in sand” effect. Historically this writing system has been written in both right-to-left and left-to-right orientations. Akatab has the necessary characters and features to write in both directions.

This font uses state-of-the-art OpenType font technology to provide accurate typography including the formation of bi-consonant ligatures. Variations of characters are included in the font to meet personal and regional preferences. Documentation included with the font package will show these variants and how to access them.

More information and a download of the release package can be found at https://software.sil.org/akatab/.

The SIL Writing Systems Technology Team