Katibeh is a headline font based on the Naskh script, infused with some qualities of the Thuluth script. The small serif-like outstrokes make Katibeh remind us of archaic designs, but other aspects of the design are very contemporary touches. The result is something between tradition and today. Katibeh has ligatures that Arabic and Persian readers are familiar with, to make it comfortable for reading longer texts. Unlike many other Arabic fonts, Katibeh includes a Latin typeface designed for harmony with the Arabic to make it useful for multilingual texts.
At the Live Testing Page you can test the fonts in the browser.
If you like the live testing page see Online Font Project.
There are some PDF Testing documents.
To build the font files:
>>> import fontforge
): http://fontforge.github.ioTo build the pdf testing documents:
.Path/to/Katibeh$ make
Or run the build script directly:
.Path/to/Katibeh$ ./Tools/build.sh
This will create all files in the Fonts
directory
You should have created/updated the fonts in Fonts
. See above.
.Path/to/Katibeh$ make preparedoc
.Path/to/Katibeh$ make doc
This will generate pdf files in Generated/Documents
Katibeh was designed using Glyphs.
The source files are in the Sources
directory. Katibeh Master.glyphs
and Katibeh-LATIN-OPEN.glyphs
We use *.ttf
, *.otf
and *.ufo
(for kerning) files generated by Glyphs (with production names)
in the build process. The files are located in the Sources/Build/Arabic
and Sources/Build/Latin
directories.
The build process merges the Arabic and Latin sources and generates OT-features for them.
GSUB features are defined in the *.fea
files in Sources
.
GPOS features are generated on the fly from the files in Sources/Build
directories.
mark
and mkmk
are taken from the *.otf
files, kern
is created from the *.ufo
s.
License: SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE
Copyright 2015, 2016 KB-Studio (www.k-b-studio.com|tarobish@gmail.com).
Copyright 2015, 2016 Lasse Fister (lasse@graphicore.de).
Copyright 2015, 2016 Eduardo Tunni(edu@tipo.net.ar).