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Leraw is a typeface for writing Kurdish, in Sorani and in Kurmanji. It is based on Rubik by Hubert & Fischer, with the Sorani letters Rubik lacks (ڕ ڵ ۆ ێ ە ھ) added and the Arabic slanted along with the Latin in the italic.
There are seven weights from Light to Black, each with an italic, and variable versions of both.
The fonts are in fonts/.
On Windows, select the files in fonts/static, right-click and choose Install for all users. On a Mac, open them and click Install Font. On Linux, copy them to ~/.local/share/fonts and run fc-cache -f.
If your app supports variable fonts (Figma, Adobe apps, any current browser), you can use the two files in fonts/variable instead.
On the web:
@font-face {
font-family: "Leraw";
src: url("Leraw[wght].woff2") format("woff2");
font-weight: 300 900;
font-style: normal;
}
@font-face {
font-family: "Leraw";
src: url("Leraw-Italic[wght].woff2") format("woff2");
font-weight: 300 900;
font-style: italic;
}Put dir="rtl" lang="ckb" on Sorani text and lang="kmr" on Kurmanji text.
| Upright | Italic | |
|---|---|---|
| 300 | Light | Light Italic |
| 400 | Regular | Italic |
| 500 | Medium | Medium Italic |
| 600 | SemiBold | SemiBold Italic |
| 700 | Bold | Bold Italic |
| 800 | ExtraBold | ExtraBold Italic |
| 900 | Black | Black Italic |
The em is 1000 units. The x-height is 520, capitals are 700, ascenders reach 710 in Latin and 750 in Arabic, and descenders go down to 210.
The v on ڕ ڵ ۆ ێ is a separate mark, placed for each letter and each weight, so it stays where it belongs whether the letter stands alone or joins the letters around it.
Latin and Arabic both slant at 12°.
The sources are the Glyphs files in sources/: Leraw.glyphs for the upright and Leraw-Italic.glyphs for the italic, each with a Light and a Black master. They open in Glyphs 3 and build with fontmake. To rebuild the fonts with Python 3.10 or later:
pip install -r requirements.txt
python build.pyThis writes the variable fonts to fonts/variable and the static fonts to fonts/static.
The images in this README are rendered from the pages in showcase/, which use the fonts in fonts/variable. To render them again after a build:
pip install playwright
python -m playwright install chromium
python showcase/render.pyPushing a tag such as v1.1 does all of this on GitHub: the fonts are built with version 1.100, the images are rendered, both are committed to the main branch, and a release is published with the fonts in a zip file.
Leraw is free to use, share and change under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The full text is in OFL.txt.
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