Author: SIL Writing Systems Technology

# Lateef - Announcement

We are pleased to release version 2.000 of the Lateef font family. The font package is available for download from the Download page.

Seven weights for this typeface family are included:

- Lateef ExtraLight
- Lateef Light
- Lateef Regular
- Lateef Medium
- Lateef SemiBold
- Lateef Bold
- Lateef ExtraBold

The full range of weights is accessed in different ways depending on the application. See the FAQ for details.

## Changes

### 2022-06-24 (SIL WSTech team) Lateef version 2.000

#### New

- Added 6 weights -- ExtraLight, Light, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, and ExtraBold
- Added OpenType support back in to the font
- Added "Disable digit kerning (see FAQ)" TypeTuner-only feature to support the bug in Word
- New features:
  - tnum - access tabular versions of Arabic digits
  - pnum - access proportional versions of Latin digits
  - cv51 - Kyrgyz OE (loop/bar)
  - cv54 - Yeh hamza (Standard/Right hamza)
  - cv85 - Decimal separator (Small reh/Slash)
- Added UI name strings for OpenType features
- Added Kyrgyz language support in Graphite and OpenType
- Added Rohingya language support in Graphite and OpenType
- Added proportional Arabic digits (now the default)
- Added kerning for proportional Arabic digits
- Added Arabic-style (rounded) versions of chevron quotes
- Added:
  - U+0600 ARABIC NUMBER SIGN
  - U+0601 ARABIC SIGN SANAH
  - U+0602 ARABIC FOOTNOTE MARKER
  - U+0603 ARABIC SIGN SAFHA
  - U+0604 ARABIC SIGN SAMVAT
  - U+0605 ARABIC NUMBER MARK ABOVE
  - U+0609 ARABIC-INDIC PER MILLE SIGN
  - U+060A ARABIC-INDIC PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN
  - U+060B AFGHANI SIGN
  - U+060D ARABIC DATE SEPARATOR
  - U+060E ARABIC POETIC VERSE SIGN
  - U+060F ARABIC SIGN MISRA
  - U+0610 ARABIC SIGN SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE WASSALLAM
  - U+0611 ARABIC SIGN ALAYHE ASSALLAM
  - U+0612 ARABIC SIGN RAHMATULLAH ALAYHE
  - U+0613 ARABIC SIGN RADI ALLAHOU ANHU
  - U+0615 ARABIC SMALL HIGH TAH
  - U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH
  - U+0617 ARABIC SMALL HIGH ZAIN
  - U+0618 ARABIC SMALL FATHA
  - U+0619 ARABIC SMALL DAMMA
  - U+061A ARABIC SMALL KASRA
  - U+0620 ARABIC LETTER KASHMIRI YEH
  - U+063B ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE
  - U+063C ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
  - U+063E ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE
  - U+063F ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE
  - U+065F ARABIC WAVY HAMZA BELOW
  - U+0773 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT TWO ABOVE
  - U+0774 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE ABOVE
  - U+0775 ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT TWO ABOVE
  - U+0776 ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE ABOVE
  - U+0777 ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FOUR BELOW
  - U+0778 ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT TWO ABOVE
  - U+0779 ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE ABOVE
  - U+077A ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT TWO ABOVE
  - U+077B ARABIC LETTER YEH BARREE WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE ABOVE
  - U+077C ARABIC LETTER HAH WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FOUR BELOW
  - U+077D ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FOUR ABOVE
  - U+077E ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH INVERTED V
  - U+077F ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE
  - U+08A0 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH SMALL V BELOW
  - U+08A1 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
  - U+08A2 ARABIC LETTER JEEM WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE
  - U+08A3 ARABIC LETTER TAH WITH TWO DOTS ABOVE
  - U+08A4 ARABIC LETTER FEH WITH DOT BELOW AND THREE DOTS ABOVE
  - U+08A5 ARABIC LETTER QAF WITH DOT BELOW
  - U+08A6 ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH DOUBLE BAR
  - U+08A7 ARABIC LETTER MEEM WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE
  - U+08A8 ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TWO DOTS BELOW AND HAMZA ABOVE
  - U+08A9 ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TWO DOTS BELOW AND DOT ABOVE
  - U+08AA ARABIC LETTER REH WITH LOOP
  - U+08AB ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH DOT WITHIN
  - U+08AC ARABIC LETTER ROHINGYA YEH
  - U+08AD ARABIC LETTER LOW ALEF
  - U+08AE ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
  - U+08AF ARABIC LETTER SAD WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
  - U+08B0 ARABIC LETTER GAF WITH INVERTED STROKE
  - U+08B1 ARABIC LETTER STRAIGHT WAW
  - U+08B2 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN WITH INVERTED V ABOVE
  - U+08B3 ARABIC LETTER AIN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
  - U+08B4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH DOT BELOW
  - U+08B6 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH SMALL MEEM ABOVE
  - U+08B7 ARABIC LETTER PEH WITH SMALL MEEM ABOVE
  - U+08B8 ARABIC LETTER TEH WITH SMALL TEH ABOVE
  - U+08B9 ARABIC LETTER REH WITH SMALL NOON ABOVE
  - U+08BA ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TWO DOTS BELOW AND SMALL NOON ABOVE
  - U+08BB ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN FEH
  - U+08BC ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF
  - U+08BD ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN NOON
  - U+08BE ARABIC LETTER PEH WITH SMALL V
  - U+08BF ARABIC LETTER TEH WITH SMALL V
  - U+08C0 ARABIC LETTER TTEH WITH SMALL V
  - U+08C1 ARABIC LETTER TCHEH WITH SMALL V
  - U+08C2 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH SMALL V
  - U+08C3 ARABIC LETTER GHAIN WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE
  - U+08C4 ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE
  - U+08C5 ARABIC LETTER JEEM WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE
  - U+08C6 ARABIC LETTER JEEM WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
  - U+08C7 ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL ARABIC LETTER TAH ABOVE
  - U+08E3 ARABIC TURNED DAMMA BELOW
  - U+08E4 ARABIC CURLY FATHA
  - U+08E5 ARABIC CURLY DAMMA
  - U+08E6 ARABIC CURLY KASRA
  - U+08E7 ARABIC CURLY FATHATAN
  - U+08E8 ARABIC CURLY DAMMATAN
  - U+08E9 ARABIC CURLY KASRATAN
  - U+08EA ARABIC TONE ONE DOT ABOVE
  - U+08EB ARABIC TONE TWO DOTS ABOVE
  - U+08EC ARABIC TONE LOOP ABOVE
  - U+08ED ARABIC TONE ONE DOT BELOW
  - U+08EE ARABIC TONE TWO DOTS BELOW
  - U+08EF ARABIC TONE LOOP BELOW
  - U+08F0 ARABIC OPEN FATHATAN
  - U+08F1 ARABIC OPEN DAMMATAN
  - U+08F2 ARABIC OPEN KASRATAN
  - U+08F3 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WAW
  - U+08F4 ARABIC FATHA WITH RING
  - U+08F5 ARABIC FATHA WITH DOT ABOVE
  - U+08F6 ARABIC KASRA WITH DOT BELOW
  - U+08F7 ARABIC LEFT ARROWHEAD ABOVE
  - U+08F8 ARABIC RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE
  - U+08F9 ARABIC LEFT ARROWHEAD BELOW
  - U+08FA ARABIC RIGHT ARROWHEAD BELOW
  - U+08FB ARABIC DOUBLE RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE
  - U+08FC ARABIC DOUBLE RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE WITH DOT
  - U+08FD ARABIC RIGHT ARROWHEAD ABOVE WITH DOT
  - U+08FE ARABIC DAMMA WITH DOT
  - U+08FF ARABIC MARK SIDEWAYS NOON GHUNNA
  - U+201B SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
  - U+201F DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
  - U+204F REVERSED SEMICOLON
  - U+2E41 REVERSED COMMA
- Implemented new rules for Rendering the Allah ligature
- Implemented support for UNICODE ARABIC MARK RENDERING (UTR #53)
- Changed design of all Latin glyphs to use Crimson Pro
- Updated Latin script repertoire to support Recommended characters for Non-Roman fonts

#### Improved

- Redesign of some Arabic digits
- Redesign of hook on heh-goal
- Redesigned head of feh, qaf, waw
- Redesigned high hamza characters (U+0674..U+0678)
- Redesigned nuktas and variants to be more calligraphic and less geometric
- Slight adjustments to nukta spacing
- Harmonized design of many characters so that all characters in that family (eg seen, dal, feh, keheh, etc) would be consistent
- Harmonized design of all terminals
- Harmonized vertical stems
- Harmonized design of small v and inverted small v characters
  - U+063D ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH WITH INVERTED V
  - U+065A ARABIC VOWEL SIGN SMALL V ABOVE
  - U+065B ARABIC VOWEL SIGN INVERTED SMALL V ABOVE
  - U+0692 ARABIC LETTER REH WITH SMALL V
  - U+06B5 ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL V
  - U+06C9 ARABIC LETTER KIRGHIZ YU
  - U+06CE ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH SMALL V
  - U+06EE ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH INVERTED V
  - U+06EF ARABIC LETTER REH WITH INVERTED V
  - U+06FF ARABIC LETTER HEH WITH INVERTED V
  - U+0756 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH SMALL V
  - U+0769 ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH SMALL V
- Harmonized design of punctuation used in Arabic script (question mark, exclamation mark, quotation marks, commas, period)
- Made space and nobreak space have the same width
- Adjusted width of various whitespace characters to conform to best practice
- Revised side-bearings for many glyphs
- Revised width of kashida
- Changed scaling for some quranic marks (combining) and adjusted weights
- Improved mark positioning
- Redesign
  - U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH
  - U+0677 ARABIC LETTER U WITH HAMZA ABOVE
  - U+06AC ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH DOT ABOVE
  - U+06AD ARABIC LETTER NG
  - U+06C5 ARABIC LETTER KIRGHIZ OE
  - U+06C7 ARABIC LETTER U
  - U+FDF2 ARABIC LIGATURE ALLAH ISOLATED FORM
- Adjusted position of isolate lam characters
- Small changes to some glyphs including maddah, imala e, ain, waw
- Increase vertical separation between maddah and fatha in context of alef-maddah and initial lam+fatha
- Adjusted default linespacing to match that of Lateef 1.001 (which is tighter than LateefGR)
- Adjusted kerning to be similar to that of LateefGR
- Changed Latin digits to tabular; use new "pnum" feature to access proportional digits
- Fixed bug using kashida-justification in Word (where the lam-alef ligature would break)
- Fixed End-of-Ayah rendering in OpenType

#### Removed

- Removed Graphite from the font
- Removed support for Sindhi-style comma when Sindhi language is selected
- Removed support for Sindhi-style heh when Sindhi language is selected
- Removed support for Urdu-style heh when Urdu language is selected
- Removed features:
  - Arabic U
  - Show invisible characters
  - Jeh hack
  - Dotless head of Khah hack

#### Known issues

- Characters added since LateefGR are not yet kerned so spacing after reh- and waw-like characters may be incorrect. Please let us know of specific combinations that should be improved.
- In Word: kerning of Arabic proportional digits is incorrect. This is a bug in Word.
- In InDesign: some behaviors, such as the lam-alef ligature, raised kasra with shadda, and subtending marks, will not function correctly unless Ligatures is turned on in the Characters panel.