Saber Rastikerdar

Saber Rastikerdar
BornDecember 11, 1986 (1986-12-11)
Bandar Abbas
Died13 November 2023(2023-11-13) (aged 36)
Fasa
Occupation(s)Programmer, font developer and Type designer
Known forVazirmatn font
Websiterastikerdar.github.io

Saber Rastikardar (December 11, 1986 – November 13, 2023) was an Iranian programmer, font developer, type designer, and an active member of the FOSS community. Vazirmatn,[1][2][3] which was his most important font, was added to the Google Fonts collection in 2022, and the same font was used in the desktop version of Telegram messenger to display Persian and Arabic characters.[4]

Activities

Vazirmatn Persian font

Vazirmatn font (formerly Vazir) is a Persian-Arabic typeface family with 9 weights, which was started in 2015 under the name of Vazir with the idea of a new, simple, and readable typeface suitable for web pages and applications.[5][6] From version 32, the name of Vazir font was changed to Vazirmatn.[7][8] The design of Vazirmatn has been done in FontForge. For Latin letters, Vazirmatn is combined with Google's Roboto font by a build script.[2] On February 17, 2022, it was announced that this font was added to the Google Font collection on the Vazirmatn font GitHub page, and it was added to Google Fonts on March 10, 2022.[9] Vazirmatn font (version 27 and later) supports Persian, Arabic, Iranian Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Pashto, Urdu, Gilaki, Uzbek, Kazakh and Balochi languages.[7]

Personal life and death

Rastikerdar was born in Bandar Abbas and grew up in Shiraz.[10]

After months of fighting cancer, Saber Rastikerdar died on November 14, 2023, at the age of 36[10] and was buried in the artist's plot of Razvaniyeh cemetery in Fasa.[11][12][13] Before that, he had announced on his personal blog that he had found a pelvic tumor and as a result of a stage IV cancer.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Vazirmatn". Google Fonts. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b Rastikerdar, Saber. "vazirmatn". Github. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Vazirmatn Font". SourceForge. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  4. ^ "چگونگی همراهی و کمک به صابر راستی کردار طراح فونت "وزیرمتن"". Borna News (in Persian). Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  5. ^ "صابر راستی کردار؛ نوآوری و تحول در تایپوگرافی دیجیتال فارسی". BBC Persian (in Persian). 17 November 2023. Archived from the original on 22 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  6. ^ "فونت وزیرمتن Vazirmatn". rastikerdar.github.io. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  7. ^ a b "راهنمای فونت وزیرمتن - پرسش و پاسخ Vazirmatn". rastikerdar.github.io. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  8. ^ Akbarpour, Nima (2023-11-20). "Saber Rastikerdar: Innovation and Transformation in Persian Digital Typography". Medium. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
  9. ^ "Preparing Vazir for Google Fonts". GitHub. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  10. ^ a b Mohammadi, Fatemeh (14 November 2023). "صابر راستی‌کردار، خالق فونت چشم‌نواز وزیر درگذشت". Zoomit (in Persian). Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  11. ^ "خالق فونت‌های فارسی درگذشت". IRNA. 14 November 2023. Archived from the original on 18 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  12. ^ YJC. "برنامه نویس فسایی و خالق ۷ فونت فارسی درگذشت". Young Journalists Club (in Persian). Archived from the original on 18 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  13. ^ "خبرگزاری فارس - خالق ۷ فونت فارسی درگذشت". Fars News. 15 November 2023. Archived from the original on 15 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  14. ^ "از صابر راستی‌کردار، خالق فونت چشم‌نواز وزیر، برای غلبه‌ بر سرطان حمایت کنیم". Zoomit (in Persian). 7 May 2023. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 23 November 2023.