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Add Farsi fonts #4233

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@bateni

This is for multiple fonts. There has been many discussions on adding Farsi fonts here. Most of the discussion has revolved around Vazir, which has a weak point @davelab6 identified in #1997 and #2975: DejaVu Sans is not released as OFL but is the basis of Latin glyphs in Vazir. I believe we can/should fix this problem and include Vazir in google-fonts but before that, it might be easier to work on Sahel (by Saber Rastikerdar) as well as Estedad and Mikhad (by Amin Abedi).

  • Sahel uses Open Sans (already in google-fonts) for Latin glyphs, while Estedad and Mikhak seem to have original designs for Latin glyphs.
  • Both have reserved font names in their OFL license. I hope the developers will change this, so they can be integrated in google-fonts. Or is this something google-fonts team will do (by deriving a version and changing the name)?
  • I took the liberty of running fontbakery on these fonts, and I think the reported failures are not difficult to resolve. I actually ran fontbakery on an Arabic font already in google-fonts and noticed many failures. Not sure if those checks were added after onboarding that font, or are they not very serious.

estedad-report.txt
sahel-report.txt
mikhak-report.txt

Font Project Git Repo URL:
https://github.com/rastikerdar/sahel-font
https://github.com/aminabedi68/Estedad
https://github.com/aminabedi68/Mikhak

Super short description of the Font Family:
Modern Farsi typefaces with clean license.

Requirements:

I understand that Google Fonts will publish only fonts that matches its requirements, and I can confirm the project meets them (by ticking the cases, or putting x between the square brackets in text mode):

  • The entire font project is licensed under the OFL
  • There is no "Reserved Font Name" mention in the OFL license
  • Family name is unique according to namecheck.fontdata.com
  • If the font targets latin based written languages, it supports at least GF Latin Core glyphset
  • I read and agree with the full contributing requirements
  • The repository respect the upstream repo structure
  • I will maintain the repository

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