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Arabic typography. Arabic typography is the typography of letters, graphemes, characters or text in Arabic script, for example for writing Arabic, Persian, Shahmukhi 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 ...
Arwi language (a mixture of Arabic and Tamil) uses the Arabic script together with the addition of 13 letters. It is mainly used in Sri Lanka and the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu for religious purposes. Arwi language is the language of Tamil Muslims. Arabi Malayalam is Malayalam written in the Arabic script.
Arabic is the third most widespread official language after English and French, [17] one of six official languages of the United Nations, [18] and is the liturgical language of Islam. [19] Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the world and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, governments and the media. [19]
Unicode block Arabic.jpg. Arabic is a Unicode block, containing the standard letters and the most common diacritics of the Arabic script, and the Arabic-Indic digits. [ 3]
Traditional Arabic is an Arabic naskh-based typeface first developed by Monotype as Series 589 in the spring of 1956. [1] [2] It featured a system of interlocking sorts to allow for the diacritics to properly display over the letters they modify.
Simplified Arabic (called Yakout since 1967) is a simplified Arabic font that allowed Arabic text to be composed using a Linotype machine. [1] [2] It was first announced in 1959 as Mrowa-Linotype Simplified Arabic. [1] [3] [4] The font was developed by Kamel Mrowa, Nabih Jaroudi, and Linotype & Machinery Ltd. staff under the guidance of Walter ...
Arabic calligraphy is the artistic practice of handwriting and calligraphy based on the Arabic alphabet. It is known in Arabic as khatt ( Arabic: خَطّ ), derived from the words 'line', 'design', or 'construction'. [ 1][ 2] Kufic is the oldest form of the Arabic script . From an artistic point of view, Arabic calligraphy has been known and ...
The Arabic Extended-B and Arabic Extended-A ranges encode additional Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages. The Arabic Presentation Forms-A range encodes contextual forms and ligatures of letter variants needed for Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Central Asian languages.