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GF Project Plan Q3/Q4 2023
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Onboard more high-quality fonts that support the Perso-Arabic script #2

Open eliheuer opened 1 year ago

eliheuer commented 1 year ago

Only 43 of the 1550 font families on Google Fonts support the Perso-Arabic script, yet it is the second most widely used alphabet/abjad after Latin and has a calligraphic tradition that in my opinion surpasses Latin.

I plan to onboard as many high-quality fonts supporting this script as I can in 2023, and add support for this script to existing fonts if possible.

I already helped add Arabic support to Courier Badi for example: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/6491, https://github.com/LaPingvino/courier-badi/pull/1

I will also try contributing two Arabic fonts I designed myself. https://github.com/eliheuer/hasubi-mono https://github.com/eliheuer/open-gate-naskh

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davelab6 commented 1 year ago

These are good for me in 2023 scope, even Q3. I think this is a 1st tier project; without the Arabic script caveat, its the # 1 :)