FONTLOG 
Alkalami font
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This file provides detailed information on the Alkalami font software. 
This information should be distributed along with the Alkalami font 
and any derivative works.

Basic Font Information
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Alkalami is the local word for the Arabic "qalam", a type of sharpened stick used 
for writing on wooden boards in the Kano region of Nigeria and in Niger, and what 
gives the style its distinct appearance. The baseline stroke is very thick and 
solid. The ascenders and other vertical strokes including the teeth are very 
narrow when compared to the baseline. A generous line height is necessary to 
allow for deep swashes and descenders, and the overall look of the page is a very 
black, solid rectangle. Diacritics are much smaller in scale, with very little 
distance from the main letters.

This font supports the characters known to be used by languages written with the 
Kano style of Arabic script, but may not have the characters needed for other 
languages.

This font utilizes state-of-the-art font technologies to support complex 
typographic issues. Font smarts are implemented using OpenType only. We have 
no current plans to support Graphite.

Two fonts are included in this release:
     * Alkalami Regular
     * Alkalami Light Regular

ChangeLog
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(This should list both major and minor changes, most recent first.)

2018-07-11 (Becca Spalinger) Alkalami 1.100
- Changed qaf-based characters: isolate now has tail; tail on final flattened 
  to match isolate
2017-05-23 (Becca Spalinger) Alkalami 1.000
- Fixed issues related to lam/alef/hamza shaping
- Fixed issue with jeem/hah combinations not shaping properly
- Added larger left sidebearing on U+0622 (isolate and final forms)
- Repositioned below attachment points on isolate and final forms of noon, 
  lam, seen, sad, qaf and yeh
- Added Stylistic set (ss08) to make fatha, kasra and damma touch the 
  isolate alef
- Decomposed U+0623 and U+0625 in order to allow the hamza part of the
  character to be colored
- Changed position of dagger alef when with fatha
2016-12-15 (Becca Spalinger) Alkalami 0.924 
- Repositioned below attachment points on reh and waw
- Changed depth of swash on the sad/dad, seen/sheen, and lam isolate 
- Digits reduced in size
- Width of U+0640 reduced by 50%
- Left sidebearing on U+0621 reduced
- Changed positioning of dagger alef above fatha and alef maksura
2016-10-06 (Becca Spalinger) Alkalami 0.919 
- Updated OpenType code to handle hah/jeem/khah/nyeh positioning
2016-04-04 (Becca (Hirsbrunner) Spalinger) Alkalami 0.910
- Added anchor points to U+FDF2
- Removed U+064A to ss05 and added U+06CC to ss05 with wagaf above
2016-02-04 (Becca (Hirsbrunner) Spalinger) Alkalami 0.909
- Fixed medial alternate form of peh
2016-01-12 (Becca (Hirsbrunner) Spalinger) Alkalami 0.908
- Fixed OpenType code for "Allah"
2015-12-11 (Becca (Hirsbrunner) Spalinger) Alkalami 0.906 Preliminary design and smart behaviours
- Smart behaviours for wagaf and Warsh implemented in OpenType
- TypeTuner code added to support features
- Space character changed to be bigger for use Latin script and smaller for Arabic script
2015-11-05 (Becca (Hirsbrunner) Spalinger) Alkalami 0.1-alpha Preliminary design and smart behaviours
- Preliminary design of isolate characters
- Smart behaviours implemented in OpenType

Acknowledgements
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(Here is where contributors can be acknowledged. If you make modifications
be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (W) and description
(D). This list is sorted by last name in alphabetical order.)

N: Becca (Hirsbrunner) Spalinger
W: http://software.sil.org/alkalami/
D: Lead Designer

N: Lorna Evans
D: Project Manager

N: Bob Hallissy
W: Script engineer

N: Nicolas Spalinger
W: Script engineer

The Alkalami font project is maintained by SIL International.

For more information see the Alkalami website:
http://software.sil.org/alkalami/support/

