n8willis/opentype-shaping-documents

Better fonts for Syriac images

n8willis opened this issue · 3 comments

n8willis commented

Noto Sans for Syriac is so monoline and geometric that I worry that the images aren't helpful.

It'd be good to find a better replacement and regenerate them. Suggestions are welcome, given that we intentionally want to use compatibly-licensed fonts so that others can rebuild everything from source.

alerque commented

I don't know if it's a starting point for someone with more knowledge of Syriac than I, but I had this page bookmarked as a starting point for when I needed fonts for some related languages:

http://luc.devroye.org/assyrian.html

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alfiedotwtf commented

Here are the fonts we use for Allsorts Syriac testing. Hopefully one of these will be what you're after:

  • East Syriac Adiabene
  • East Syriac Ctesiphon
  • Estrangelo Antioch
  • Estrangelo Edessa
  • Estrangelo Midyat
  • Estrangelo Nisibin
  • Estrangelo Nisibin Outline
  • Estrangelo Quenneshrin
  • Estrangelo Talada
  • Estrangelo TurAbdin
  • Serto Batnan
  • Serto Jerusalem
  • Serto Jerusalem Outline
  • Serto Kharput
  • Serto Malankara
  • Serto Mardin
  • Serto Urhoy
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n8willis commented

Here are the fonts we use for Allsorts Syriac testing. Hopefully one of these will be what you're after:

Yeah, the Beth Mardutho fonts are what a lot of people seem to use for reference quality (and the folks there were also quite helpful in answering questions). The singleton license-statement/terms in the associated documentation and embedded with some of the fonts themselves is where I haven't figured out exactly how they shake out. There's some mutual contradictions on things like whether redistribution is permitted.