Katibeh is a headline font based on the Naskh script, infused with some qualities of the Thuluth script. The small serif-like outstrokes make Katibeh remind us of archaic designs, but other aspects of the design are very contemporary touches. The result is something between tradition and today. Katibeh has ligatures that Arabic and Persian readers are familiar with, to make it comfortable for reading longer texts. Unlike many other Arabic fonts, Katibeh includes a Latin typeface designed for harmony with the Arabic to make it useful for multilingual texts.
At the Live Testing Page you can test the fonts in the browser.
If you like the live testing page see Online Font Project.
There are some PDF Testing documents.
To build the font files:
- fontTools: https://github.com/behdad/fonttools
- AFDKO (makeotf): http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype/afdko.html
- python-fontforge (
>>> import fontforge): http://fontforge.github.io - defcon ufo3 branch: https://github.com/typesupply/defcon/tree/ufo3
- unicodedata2: https://github.com/mikekap/unicodedata2
To build the pdf testing documents:
- latexmk: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexmk/
- texlive (xetex): https://www.tug.org/texlive/ (http://xetex.sourceforge.net/)
.Path/to/Katibeh$ make
Or run the build script directly:
.Path/to/Katibeh$ ./Tools/build.sh
This will create all files in the Fonts directory
You should have created/updated the fonts in Fonts. See above.
.Path/to/Katibeh$ make preparedoc
.Path/to/Katibeh$ make doc
This will generate pdf files in Generated/Documents
Katibeh was designed using Glyphs.
The source files are in the Sources directory. Katibeh Master.glyphs and Katibeh-LATIN-OPEN.glyphs
We use *.ttf, *.otf and *.ufo (for kerning) files generated by Glyphs (with production names)
in the build process. The files are located in the Sources/Build/Arabic and Sources/Build/Latin directories.
The build process merges the Arabic and Latin sources and generates OT-features for them.
GSUB features are defined in the *.fea files in Sources.
GPOS features are generated on the fly from the files in Sources/Build directories.
mark and mkmk are taken from the *.otf files, kern is created from the *.ufos.
- Arabic font design: Kourosh Beigpour
- Latin font design: Eduardo Tunni
- font engineering: Lasse Fister
License: SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE
Copyright 2015, 2016 KB-Studio (www.k-b-studio.com|tarobish@gmail.com).
Copyright 2015, 2016 Lasse Fister (lasse@graphicore.de).
Copyright 2015, 2016 Eduardo Tunni(edu@tipo.net.ar).