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Harmattan, named after the trade winds that blow during the winter in West Africa, is designed in a Warsh style to suit the needs of languages using the Arabic script in West Africa.
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The font does not cover the full Unicode Arabic repertoire.
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It only supports characters known to be used by languages in West Africa.
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This font provides a simplified rendering of Arabic script, using basic connecting glyphs but not including a wide variety of additional ligatures or contextual alternates (only the required lam-alef ligatures.)
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This simplified style is often preferred for clarity, especially in non-Arabic languages, but may be considered unattractive in more traditional and literate communities.
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Harmattan supports a subset of the Unicode 7.0 Arabic character repertoire.
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It does not include the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are not recommended for normal use.
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It also does not include some of characters in the "Arabic", "Arabic Supplement", and "Arabic Extended-A" blocks when they are known to be unnecessary in West African languages.
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Bob Hallissy does Graphite, OpenType, and TypeTuner code, and build support.
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Becca Hirsbrunner is the Lead Designer.
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George W. Nuss is the Original Designer.
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Iska Routamaa is a Contributing Designer.
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The Harmattan project is maintained by SIL International.
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Harmattan is released under the SIL Open Font License.
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Harmattan is a trademark of SIL International.
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For further information about this font, including Unicode ranges supported, Graphite and OpenType font features and how to use them, and licensing, please see the documentation on the website <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/Harmattan">scripts.sil.org/Harmattan</a>
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