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Skolar (a multi-script font family with Arabic, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Gujarati and Latin scripts) Skolar Sans (in Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Latin) SimSun; Sylfaen (a multi-script serif font family, for various non-Latin scripts and is for the languages Armenian and Georgian) Sutturah (Cyrillic, Latin)
Maghrebi letters appeared in the first known Arabic alphabet to have been printed, in a 1505 book of the Spanish lexicographer Pedro de Alcalá. [21] In Iberia, the Arabic script was used to write Romance languages such as Mozarabic, Portuguese, Spanish or Ladino. [22] This writing system was referred to as Aljamiado, from ʿajamiyah ...
Scheherazade New, formerly Scheherazade, is a traditional Naskh styled font for Arabic script created by SIL, freely available under the Open Font License. It supports a wide range of Arabic-based writing system encoded in Unicode. The font offers two family members: regular and bold. [1]
The font family is released as GNU FreeFont under the GNU General Public License. It also supports several font formats, including PostScript, TrueType, and OpenType. For this reason the fonts are derived from original work made in FontForge, and stored in .sfd (Spline Font Database) files. The most recent release is from May 2012.
The design is based on the Al-Ahram typeface designed by Zapf in 1956 but reworked and modified to fit the Palatino nova family. The design is Naskh in style but with a strong influence of Thuluth style. This family only comes in 1 font, with the Arabic characters based on Palatino nova Regular.
Arabic typography is the typography of letters, 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.
Islamic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy, in the languages which use Arabic alphabet or the alphabets derived from it. It includes Arabic, Persian, Ottoman, and Urdu calligraphy. [2] [3] It is known in Arabic as khatt Arabi (خط عربي), which translates into Arabic line, design, or construction. [4]
Amiri (Arabic: أميري) is a naskh typeface for Arabic script designed by Khaled Hosny. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The beta was released in December 2011. [ 1 ] As of October 22, 2019, it is hosted on 67,000 websites, and is served by the Google Fonts API approximately 74.8 million times per week.