Fonts for use with alreq

Arabic and Persian examples in alreq will use the Scheherazade font by default. We should serve the document with a Scheherazade webfont.

Note that Scheherazade has some smart OpenType features, which may be useful from time to time to illustrate different glyph forms. (Its behaviour is also affected by the language set, but only for Kurdish, Rohingya, Sindhi and Urdu.) We should activate these using OpenType controls (rather than Graphite) for interoperability, and check that they are reproduced as expected in the 3 main browsers if the text is not rendered using an image.

If particular features are not available when using Scheherazade, or a different writing style is to be illustrated, the group approves of the use of the following fonts for Arabic/Persian text, because they are open and readily accessible.

Naskh style:

• Amiri
• Lateef
• Noto Sans Arabic

Kufi style

• Noto Kufi Arabic

Nastaliq style

• Awami Nastaliq

If examples using these fonts are not rendered using images, we will need to add a webfont to the document, however we should balance the utility of serving multiple webfonts with the image-based alternative - a webfont may not be justified for a single example.