About

Scheherazade New, named after the heroine of the classic Arabian Nights tale, is designed in a similar style to traditional typefaces such as Monotype Naskh, extended to cover the Unicode Arabic repertoire for non-Arabic languages.

Design

Scheherazade New provides a “simplified” rendering of Arabic script, using basic connecting glyphs but not including a wide variety of additional ligatures or contextual alternates (only the required lam-alef ligatures). A type sample showing an inventory of some of the unusual of glyphs and features can be seen here: design type samples.

Scheherazade New includes Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold typefaces. See the FAQ to better understand the complexities.

Font Features

This font is an OpenType-enabled font family that supports the Arabic script. It includes a number of optional features that provide alternative rendering that might be preferable for use in some contexts. Read more about our smart font features.

Character Set Support

Scheherazade New includes full support for Unicode 15.0 Arabic ranges (excluding the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are not recommended for normal use). Read more about our character set support.

Read more at software.sil.org/scheherazade/