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Arabic typography is the typographyofletters, graphemes, characters or text in Arabic script, for example for writing Arabic, Persian, or Urdu. 16th century Arabic typography was a by-product of Latin typography with Syriac and Latin proportions and aesthetics. It lacked expertise in the three core aspects of Arabic writing: calligraphy, style and system. Calligraphy requires aesthetically skilled writing in a chosen canonical style such as naskh, nastaʿlīqorruqʿah. System denotes the script grammar covering such rules as horizontality and stretching.[1]

Characteristics

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Some characteristics used in Latin scripts, like bold, letter spacing[dubiousdiscuss]oritalic, are not usually used in Arabic typography.

Calligraphic style

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Some Arabic computer fonts are calligraphic, for example Arial, Courier New, and Times New Roman. They look as if they were written with a brush or oblong pen, akin to how serifs originated in stone inscriptionals. Other fonts, like Tahoma and Noto Sans Arabic, use a mono-linear style more akin to sans-serif Latin scripts. Monolinear means that the lines have the same width throughout the letter.

Text example Calligraphic (Arial) Monolinear (Tahoma)
Eastern Arabic numerals ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩
Abjad Hawz (ابجد هوز [arz]), an Arabic alphabet song ابجد هوز حطي كلمن

شكل الاستاذ بقى منسجمن

استاذ حمام .. نحن الزغاليل

ابجد هوز حطي كلمن

شكل الاستاذ بقى منسجمن

استاذ حمام .. نحن الزغاليل

Overlines

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Overlines used in a version of the BibleinPersian (1920)

Historically, Arabic text used overlines to indicate emphasis.[2]

Slant (italic)

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Some Arabic styles such as Diwani use a right-to-left downward-sloping slant.[3]

Use of right angles

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Some typefaces use more right angles, for example Noto Kufi Arabic. Others, like Tahoma and Arial, have a more rounded style (see graph below). A font with tendency towards right angles is also called 'angled',[4] and rounded fonts are also called 'cursive'.[5]

 

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Thomas Milo, Arabic Typography, Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Brill Publishers, 2013
  • ^ Charette, François (2010). "ArabXeTeX: an ArabTeX-like interface for typesetting languages in Arabic script with XeLaTeX" (PDF). p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-25. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
  • ^ "TPTQ Arabic: Arabic Calligraphy and Type Design by Kristyan Sarkis". tptq-arabic.com. Archived from the original on 2022-01-29. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  • ^ Zoghbi, Pascal (2019-03-14). "29LT Zarid Slab : A Firm & Agile Typeface". 29LT BLOG. Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  • ^ Zoghbi, Pascal (2019-03-14). "29LT Zarid Slab : A Firm & Agile Typeface". 29LT BLOG. Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
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