Hi PCers, I don't check general news sites very frequently, so I guess I'm the last one who notices the new Persian web font in the new design of BBC Persian. The font is Nassim , and although it kind of reminds me of some old Persian books, its shape isn't very appealing to Iranian readers. Anyways, it's fun to see that a mainstream website starts using a web font for Persian content. But what's more interesting is enabling more people and web writers/producers to use Persian web fonts for their web sites, and I think adding one or two Persian web font(s) to Google Web Fonts is a good way for achieving this. It says the fonts have to be 'open source, high quality web fonts free for anyone to use.'
Download farsi-fonts packages for openSUSE. Farsi-fonts-0.4-lp150.382.10.noarch.rpm, A Collection of Free Persian OpenType Fonts. OpenSUSE Oss all.
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Do you guys have suggestions for this? The FarsiWeb fonts are not fully suitable for this purpose legally. Iran Nastaliq can be a choice. Mehr's excellent 'Iranian' families are great, but not ready yet, specially for Windows users. Cheers, Mostafa behdad 19/4/2011, 17:23 น. On 04/19/11 11:26, Mostafa Hajizadeh wrote: Hi PCers, Hi MostafaI don't check general news sites very frequently, so I guess I'm the last one who notices the new Persian web font in the new design of BBC Persian.
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The font is Nassim , and although it kind of reminds me of some old Persian books, its shape isn't very appealing to Iranian readers. The proportations are off for Persian. Anyways, it's fun to see that a mainstream website starts using a web font for Persian content. But what's more interesting is enabling more people and web writers/producers to use Persian web fonts for their web sites, and I think adding one or two Persian web font(s) to Google Web Fonts is a good way for achieving this. It says the fonts have to be 'open source, high quality web fonts free for anyone to use.' Do you guys have suggestions for this?
The FarsiWeb fonts are not fully suitable for this purpose legally. Iran Nastaliq can be a choice. Mehr's excellent 'Iranian' families are great, but not ready yet, specially for Windows users.
We (Google) have been looking for good Persian fonts to add to the repository indeed. FarsiWeb fonts where not suitable indeed. I have contacted Hooman to see if we can work on making his font available, but he has not been able to find the time to work on finishing it yet. Let this be another ping for him. Google is typically willing to make a small monetary contribution to Open Font designers to finish their designs, just in case someone may want to use that. If you know any good fonts that have a clear designer and may be a good fit, let me know.
Cheers, behdad CheersMostafa Sourena 24/5/2011, 19:45 น. @ Mostafa: There is a that is activated from a few months ago. It has about 80 webfonts on its collection. Unfortunately the service is not free yet. @Behdad: The fonts introduced on this page are free and public domain: At least those made by governments of Saudi Arabia and Iran are public domain. They can be used by Google webfonts to cover Arabic-script languages. Nastaliq still is not ready for this purpose though.
It is a very complex typeface that no browser can handle as a webfont yet. Behnam Esfahbod 24/5/2011, 22:22 น. Just wanted to add to this discussion that is now censored in Iran and thus Google Web Fonts won't work here any more. Mostafa On May 26, 1:45 pm, Hossein Noorikhah wrote: HiFons.com webfonts does not work for me, and I get 'forbidden' message when I try to access the fonts on this page: paying cash to companies like Typekit or paying Google in kind by allowing them to monitor your web traffic through hits on their font server Third party hosted fonts seems to be a bad idea. Hossein On 5/25/11, John Hudson wrote: It should be noted that web publishers don't necessarily need a 'webfont service': they just need a font license that permits serving of a font with web content, then they can serve the font directly, just as they would an image or other part of their website's visual appearance.
The primary benefit of webfont services, i.e. Third party webfont servingis that they look after the various format issues that are required for backwards-compatible cross-browser webfont support, e.g. WOFF format to newer browsers, EOT to older versions of Internet Explorer, raw TTF to some versions of Opera, Safari and Chrome. Since these issues are a headache to deal with, some publishers may prefer to make use of webfont services, whether paying cash to companies like Typekit or paying Google in kind by allowing them to monitor your web traffic through hits on their font server. Of course, some fonts may only be available on subscription basis through webfont services, i.e. The font makers may not make self-serve licenses available.
JH - Tiro Typeworks Gulf Islands, BC Huji Lee 8/6/2011, 7:08 น. @Behdad: The fonts introduced on this page are free and public domain:. At least those made by governments of Saudi Arabia and Iran are public domain. I'm pretty certain that statement is not legally correct.
Iran's Copyright law doesn't consider government works in public domain, and my understanding of Saudi Arabia Copyright Law is they don't consider it in public domain either. @Behdad: When you said 'I have contacted Hooman to see if we can work on making his font available, but he has not been able to find the time to work on finishing it yet. Let this be another ping for him', were you talking about this font:? Behdad 8/6/2011, 7:21 น.