Last modified: 2014-11-05 13:50:00 UTC
The following are 6 free Arabic fonts I suggest including in the WebFonts extenstion: 1. Amiri 2. Droid Arabic Kufi 3. Droid Arabic Naskh 4. Lateef 5. Scheherazade 6. Thabit I have mentioned those fonts in my suggestion in the Arabic Wikipedia. The Fonts are available here : http://www.google.com/webfonts/earlyaccess
Amiri is already present in Webfonts.
Movint to ULS.
I don't think it is a good idea to add 6 fonts. It leads to choice overload for users, and consequently to more users making no choice at all and being dissatisfied. I think we should offer between 0 and 3 web fonts maximum. Would it be possible to make an informed choice on which of the fonts in the list, and possible already present in the font repo are most suitable for screen display, and should be offered as web fonts for Arabic text, and secondly, which font should be used as the default font for Arabic text?
The issue of web fonts has been discussed many times in the Arabic Wikipedia. After enabling the web fonts extension, a considerable number of users were unsatisfied with the Amiri font, so a request (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41359#c18) was added to make the system font the default option in the extension, there was no response here. So please, make the system font a default option as fast as possible, many are unsatisfied with the Amiri font. There are other ideas related to fonts that one wishes to come true, like giving users the option to adjust font size and space between lines, also it would be very good if users were given clear and straightforward option that enable installing fonts permanently on the their systems. So, for now, at least make the system font the default option. I don't think that 5 more fonts will be a bad addition at all.
Correction: the request to make the system default fonts has been added here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41359#c24 and later https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47183. The reason again is dissatisfaction with the one option available, to be more clear,the Amiri font does not appear well on Google Chrome, specially on Microsoft Windows.
Kartik: You assigned this ticket to yourself a year ago. Are you still working (or still plan to work) on this issue? Only in case you do not plan to work on this issue anymore, should the assignee be set back to default and the bug status changed from ASSIGNED to NEW? Thanks.
Hi All Please is there any update about this request .
Kartik: I am resetting the assignee of this issue to default because there has been no signs of progress for the last months. Feel free to assign it to yourself again when you plan to work on this.
