Better fonts for Syriac images

[n8willis]

Noto Sans for Syriac is so monoline and geometric that I worry that the images aren't helpful.

It'd be good to find a better replacement and regenerate them. Suggestions are welcome, given that we intentionally want to use compatibly-licensed fonts so that others can rebuild everything from source.

[alerque]

I don't know if it's a starting point for someone with more knowledge of Syriac than I, but I had this page bookmarked as a starting point for when I needed fonts for some related languages:

http://luc.devroye.org/assyrian.html

[alfiedotwtf]

Here are the fonts we use for Allsorts Syriac testing. Hopefully one of these will be what you're after:

• East Syriac Adiabene
• East Syriac Ctesiphon
• Estrangelo Antioch
• Estrangelo Edessa
• Estrangelo Midyat
• Estrangelo Nisibin
• Estrangelo Nisibin Outline
• Estrangelo Quenneshrin
• Estrangelo Talada
• Estrangelo TurAbdin
• Serto Batnan
• Serto Jerusalem
• Serto Jerusalem Outline
• Serto Kharput
• Serto Malankara
• Serto Mardin
• Serto Urhoy

[n8willis]

Here are the fonts we use for Allsorts Syriac testing. Hopefully one of these will be what you're after:

Yeah, the Beth Mardutho fonts are what a lot of people seem to use for reference quality (and the folks there were also quite helpful in answering questions). The singleton license-statement/terms in the associated documentation and embedded with some of the fonts themselves is where I haven't figured out exactly how they shake out. There's some mutual contradictions on things like whether redistribution is permitted.