User:Arian/Saber Rastikerdar

Saber Rastikardar (December 20, 1365 - November 22, 1402) was a programmer, font designer, and an active member of the Free and open-source software community. He was born in Bandar Abbas and grew up in Shiraz. Vazirmatn, 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 (software) messenger to display Persian and Arabic characters. He died at the age of 36 due to cancer.

Vazirmatn Persian font
Vazirmatn font (formerly Vazir) is a Persian-Arabic typeface family with 9 weights, which was started in 2014 under the name of vazir with the idea of a new, simple and readable typeface suitable for web pages and applications. From version 32, the name of vazir font was changed to Vazirmatn. The design of Vazirmatn has been done in FontForge. For Latin letters, Vazirmatn is combined with Google's Roboto font by a build script. 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 11, 2022. Vazirmatn font (version 27 and later) supports Persian language, Arabic, Iranian Azerbaijani language, Kurdish languages, Pashto, Urdu, Gilaki language, Uzbek language, Kazakh language and Balochi language languages.

Death
After months of fighting cancer, Saber Rastikerdar died on November 14, 2023 at the age of 36 and was buried in the artist's plot of Razvaniyeh cemetery in Fasa. Before that, he had announced on his personal blog that he had found a pelvic tumor and as a result of a grade 4 cancer.