Reply To: Applying Diacritical marks for transliteration of Arabic language

Hi Olaf. My apologies for the delay in responding. Thank you for your kind comments. I am glad to hear that i am not the only one trying to deal with these issues, it gives me great comfort to hear that i am not alone!

As for the kerning on the characters that i have created, you can’t really see much difference when you use them on their own, but when you correct the kerning manually to the same values as the original letters you can see a difference and they do look great. My main issue was with fonts as a whole not having what it takes when it came to making the text look good on the page because of a lack of good kerning generally, transliteration characters aside. I believe that Robert Slimbachs fonts (Garamond, Garamond Premier Pro Arno, Jenson) are by far the best around for setting longform text, the only problem is that none of them have Lib of Congress transliteration characters.

If we are doing things strictly by the book then i’m not sure i am allowed to share the mini font with you, but if you have IndyFont then i can send you the Indesign files and you can generate them yourself. I will say that they were created for Garamond Premier Pro, not Garamond Pro. Let me know what you think.

Thank you for your comments gain, much appreciated!