| Scheherazade New | |
| Style: | Naskh |
| Releasedate: | 2015 |
| Creator: | SIL International |
| License: | SIL 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]
| 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 [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/WebFonts Wikimedia font], while Scheherazade New is available on [//fonts.google.com/specimen/Scheherazade+New?subset=arabic Google Fonts].