Lateef is an extended Arabic script font designed by SIL International for modern Unicode-based systems.
Named after Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai, the famous Sindhi mystic and poet, this font is intended to be an appropriate style for use in Sindhi and other languages of the southern Asia.
This is an unreleased development effort currently focused on the following goals:
- Implement shaping behavior consistent with Lateef 1.001 but using SIL Graphite technology rather than OpenType.
- Build the font using SMITH toolchain.
See the FONTLOG.txt for information on this and previous releases.
After a successful build, the results folder will contain, along with the built ttf and woff fonts, a number of test files in an xml-based format called FTML. Examples are AllChars.xml, DiacTest1.xml. There is, in the tools folder, an ftml.xsl file that can be used to view these ftml documents directly in Firefox (which supports Graphite rendering).
However, in order for Firefox to access the .xsl file, you need to relax its "strict URI" policy by going to about:config and setting security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy to false.
Once you have this setting in effect, you can load the FTML documents directly into Firefox and see the built font rendered.
Lateef is licensed under the SIL Open Font License. See OFL.txt and OFL-FAQ.txt for details.
For further information about this font, including Unicode ranges supported, Graphite and OpenType font features and how to use them, and licensing, please see the documentation on the website or in the documentation subfolder of this font package.