Better Arabic fonts

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Noto font is great idea and currently has very good fonts but for Arabic, IMO 
Arabic Naskh and Kufic fonts (which no doubt are very good Arabic styles fonts) 
are not good enough font face for supporting all Arabic derivatives because 
they are somehow classical Arabic style fonts (but this font as far as I know 
is meant for supporting all scripts equally and neutrally somehow).

http://scripts.sil.org/Lateef and http://scripts.sil.org/Scheherazade perhaps 
are good "sample" of fonts for a neutral Arabic style sans font should be like.

Of-course this is not a bug but just a suggestion or enhancement.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ebrami...@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2014 at 2:58

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So, which Arabic derivatives do you specifically mean when you say Noto Arabic 
Naskh is not good enough for?

Original comment by behdad@google.com on 4 Mar 2014 at 4:12

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Arabic script derivative that I can comment about is Persian.

You can see there is generally difference between typefaces sets which are used 
on Persian and Arabic:

Persian: Lotus, Mitra, Nazanin, Traffic, Yaghut, Zar, Homa, Titr, Tahoma, Times 
New Roman

Arabic: Ahsa, Andalus, Arabic_transparant, Badr, Buryidah, Dammam, Hada, Kharj, 
Koufi, Naskh

ref: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6292432

I like to see a font would developed for this font which would be similar to 
both fonts sets.

Original comment by ebrami...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2014 at 10:36

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Humm.  I personally think Noto's Arabic is just fine for Persian.  At any rate, 
getting more styles is something that we like to do long term, but is not in 
our immediate plan.  Keeping the bug open doesn't help one way or another, so I 
think this can be closed.

Original comment by behdad@google.com on 2 Apr 2014 at 10:28

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Closing as Wontfix for now.

Original comment by roozbeh@google.com on 2 Apr 2014 at 11:15

• Changed state: WontFix