So pretty!
IMO, the variable connector width in Arabic script seems to make letterforms less distorted compared to the variable-width letterforms than in Western scripts.
Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
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Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#32Awesome font, will try it in Arabic Adobe CS6 inDesign, but for webpages, I think the browser will fall back to default fonts (in Chrome/Firefox) regardless of the actual webpage fonts.
Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#33The font's designer here- glad you guys like it! I wasn't ready to put this up on HN because I didn't have an English page yet, but @specifictso has gone ahead and posted it. The font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License as mentioned. There's less than 10 Arabic monospaced typefaces out there and Kawkab Mono comes to fill a gap in this area. Might not be as highly demanded as Latin monospaced fonts, but still,…
It's been a long time since I tried to read right-to-left. The red isn't really more of a pink on my screen. Is that a choice? I always like how true red jumped out.
Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#34Are there more basic string operations that need to be available for Arabic, a quick play with copy and paste produces all sorts of unusual effects I assume because of combining marks not being copied or being suitable in their new contexts. I'd assume that the text is modified in units more complex than substrings and whitespace splitting?
Letters in Arabic have different rendering depending on where they lie in the word; at the start, middle, end, or following/preceding certain characters. This is the main problem you see sometimes in movies where they try to show something in Arabic and they get the rendering wrong. They probably get each letter on its own and try to construct the words like that, where the letters do not join and the whole thing loo…
Fwiw, Greek also has one letter (sigma) that differs in rendering depending on where in the word it appears. It's the same letter, it's just that when it appears word-final, it looks different. But Unicode decided to split it into two codepoints, rather than treat it as a rendering issue. Therefore rendering of Greek codepoints never depends on position within the word, even though rendering of Greek letters can. Instead it's up to the user to make sure that whenever a lowercase sigma appears word-final, it should be encoded with a different codepoint, GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA (U+03C2), 'ς', rather than the usual codepoint, GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA (U+03C3), 'σ'.
Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#35The font's designer here- glad you guys like it! I wasn't ready to put this up on HN because I didn't have an English page yet, but @specifictso has gone ahead and posted it. The font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License as mentioned. There's less than 10 Arabic monospaced typefaces out there and Kawkab Mono comes to fill a gap in this area. Might not be as highly demanded as Latin monospaced fonts, but still,…
It's been a long time since I tried to read right-to-left. The red isn't really more of a pink on my screen. Is that a choice? I always like how true red jumped out.
Red and blue on black make for pretty cool 3D effects. I noticed it when playing with colors in terminal.
Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#36I can't read Arabic, but it's great that the internationalization of modern programming languages and editors allows for this. Sure, statements are still in English in most languages, but it must feel great to be able to write comments in your own language!
While I absolutely hate comments in languages other than English, I appreciate the fact that not all software is intended for international audience.
Then there are string constants, which one often edits in the same tool as code, and also Emacs addicts like myself like to use it for personal notes and Wiki (org-mode), finance tracking (ledger-cli), blogging (again, org-mode) and e-mail (at least I would be if I could figure out how to make Emacs work with GMail effortlessly). There are many reasons for which this font is a great development!
Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't read it, but I've noticed the red marks move relative to the glyph when playing with the resize slider: https://youtu.be/CiOg12B6A4g Google Chrome 46.0.2490.71 on Linux
The problem is that the text is actually two identical layers, the tashkil/diacritics residing on an upper layer with a hints-only font and absolute positioning. You can fix it by giving that layer "width: 100%".
Thanks! Yes this fixes it. Updated the page.
Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#38The font's designer here- glad you guys like it! I wasn't ready to put this up on HN because I didn't have an English page yet, but @specifictso has gone ahead and posted it. The font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License as mentioned. There's less than 10 Arabic monospaced typefaces out there and Kawkab Mono comes to fill a gap in this area. Might not be as highly demanded as Latin monospaced fonts, but still,…
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Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#39The font's designer here- glad you guys like it! I wasn't ready to put this up on HN because I didn't have an English page yet, but @specifictso has gone ahead and posted it. The font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License as mentioned. There's less than 10 Arabic monospaced typefaces out there and Kawkab Mono comes to fill a gap in this area. Might not be as highly demanded as Latin monospaced fonts, but still,…
It's been a long time since I tried to read right-to-left. The red isn't really more of a pink on my screen. Is that a choice? I always like how true red jumped out.
Not using true red. This is what I'm using #AF476E
Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#40Beautiful! So much more readable than the other Arabic fonts I've seen in the past. This is a little far fetched, but I think is a huge win for society. Better Arabic fonts = easier Arabic-only speakers to do work online = more opportunity for a huge portion of the world.
The Arabic type design community is already tiny, but there's a good number of really beautiful and well-designed Arabic fonts out there, and equally talented designers. My font here doesn't really even compare, it's an amateur's work.
Examples http://www.sakkal.com/type/index.html http://www.amirifont.org/ http://www.29letters.com/ https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/arabic And also check out the Arabic fonts published by Monotype