[aiaf]

The font's designer here- glad you guys like it!

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.

The font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License as mentioned.

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.

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.

[okramcivokram]

I can't read it, but I've noticed the red marks move relative to the glyph when playing with the resize slider: https://youtu.be/CiOg12B6A4g

Google Chrome 46.0.2490.71 on Linux

[XaspR8d]

The problem is that the text is actually two identical layers, the tashkil/diacritics residing on an upper layer with a hints-only font and absolute positioning. You can fix it by giving that layer "width: 100%".

[aiaf]

Thanks! Yes this fixes it. Updated the page.

[omarish]

Awesome work, يعطيك العافية!

Is there a link to the font on github?

[aiaf]

Will put up the source code on Github very soon. I just need to organize everything a bit.

[mahmud]

So friken beautiful! Ahhh.

[aiaf]

Hey mahmud! Thanks! :)

[sandworm101]

It's been a long time since I tried to read right-to-left. The red isn't really more of a pink on my screen. Is that a choice? I always like how true red jumped out.

[TeMPOraL]

Red and blue on black make for pretty cool 3D effects. I noticed it when playing with colors in terminal.

[aiaf]

Not using true red. This is what I'm using #AF476E

[muddi900]

>There's less than 10 Arabic monospaced typefaces

Less than 10 for every language using nastaleek script.

[aiaf]

Have you tried Google's Noto Nastaliq?

https://www.google.com/get/noto/#nastaliq-aran

[muddi900]

I would now. Thank you.

[azth]

جزاك الله خيراً

[aiaf]

وإياك