The font's designer here- glad you guys like it!<p>I wasn't ready to put this up on HN because I didn't have an English page yet, but @specifictso has gone ahead and posted it.<p>The font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License as mentioned.<p>There's less than 10 Arabic monospaced typefaces out there and Kawkab Mono comes to fill a gap in this area. Might not be as highly demanded as Latin monospaced fonts, but still, it's great to have variety.<p>This is very much beta software as I haven't really tested the font outside of my personal setup. I've had no type design experience prior to this project. Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
Beautiful! So much more readable than the other Arabic fonts I've seen in the past.<p>This is a little far fetched, but I think is a huge win for society. Better Arabic fonts = easier Arabic-only speakers to do work online = more opportunity for a huge portion of the world.
Out of curiosity, what text editors work well with Arabic these days? A few years back, when Textmate was still very popular, I had to sometimes do i18n work. I had a coworker for a different department who was a native Arabic speaker, who would help me out, but together we still struggled. We'd put the cursor where an edit needed to be made, and changes would appear elsewhere. It took lots of trial-and-error to get the work done. Are things better these days?
Wow, this really shows off how pretty Arabic looks. I can't read a word of it but I really appreciate the aesthetics of the language and it's unfortunate it always gets mucked up in digital format.
This would be great for قلب! It's an Arabic programming language: <a href="http://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/" rel="nofollow">http://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/</a><p>(repl here: <a href="http://qlb-repl.herokuapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://qlb-repl.herokuapp.com/</a>)<p>If you don't speak Arabic (like me, for now :<), you might have to look at the source code to figure out how to use it. :)
Are there more basic string operations that need to be available for Arabic, a quick play with copy and paste produces all sorts of unusual effects I assume because of combining marks not being copied or being suitable in their new contexts.<p>I'd assume that the text is modified in units more complex than substrings and whitespace splitting?
I can't read Arabic, but it's great that the internationalization of modern programming languages and editors allows for this.<p>Sure, statements are still in English in most languages, but it must feel great to be able to write comments in your own language!
This is very nice; and easy to read... one of my main qualms with Arabic fonts has been their jaggedness. The evenness of this font will not only make code and comments look beautiful; but also the web!
Good job ِAbdullah.<p>The font looks amazing and easy and comfortable on the eyes. Let us know when you will publish it on GitHub so we could contribute more to this seed project and expand it even further.<p>Congrats to you again
So pretty!<p>IMO, the variable connector width in Arabic script seems to make letterforms less distorted compared to the variable-width letterforms than in Western scripts.
Awesome font, will try it in Arabic Adobe CS6 inDesign, but for webpages, I think the browser will fall back to default fonts (in Chrome/Firefox) regardless of the actual webpage fonts.