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Welcome to the Typophile Arabic Typography & Type Design Group
This is the place to discuss anything and everything to do with making and using typefaces for Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and the many other languages that use variants of the Arab script. Use this forum...
View ArticleSimplified Arabic
Titus Nemeth's article titled "Simplified Arabic: a new form of Arabic type for hot metal composition" was recently published in "Typography papers 9." This is an excellent review of the development of...
View ArticleHinting Arabic?
Traditional Arabic fonts have stems and curves going all over the place, compared to Latin, where verticals and horizontals dominate. Hinting Latin - I think - relies on such uniformity, but what about...
View ArticleArabic version
I'm working to extended my font to new alphabets, as arab, now is available, in latin, cyrillic. But the arab is becoming one of the hardest steps of my work. Unlike the latin now I having problems to...
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what is the best way to kerning in Volt? dx? or width?
hi,what is the best way to kerning in Volt? which value should I edit? dx? or width?thanks
View ArticleQatar Airways - Aircraft Names
Hello,I am trying to do a repaint of different Qatar Airways' Boeing aircraft and each of these has got its own name. Being from Europe I am having a hard time getting those names written.Can anyone...
View Article• Conference for Arabic @ Jawi Writing in Brunei
http://www.unissa.edu.bn/documents/65511/59214540-7dc2-4c9e-b45d-5d0a767...http://www.unissa.edu.bn/documents/65511/afd40bb3-bbf9-4978-8afc-edbfaae...
View Articleproblem with latin characters in my Arabic font
hi, The Latin characters and numbers are looks like in the pic in the attachment! any knows why? it's default Latin characters in my arabic font, but why it's typing in this crazy way? any...
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William Caslon's Arabic
Hello all,I am about to embark on designing a bilingual publication in English and Arabic. With the client we have been using Caslon for a couple of existing projects already however this is the first...
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OpenType Features for Arabic font in Fontlab. Help.
Hi everyone.I am new in the typography world, so I'm still learning new stuff.I started creating Arabic font and I need all knowledge you are willing to share :)I created design for each letter in...
View ArticlePrograms for Arabic font? HELP
Hi everyone,I've just finished design of arabic font in fontlab. Then I imported it in Volt programe and when it comes to test the font's shapes in Volt, it doesn't show them! (and ofcourse font...
View ArticleKERNing in VOLT, problem.
Hi, there!I have a problem with kerning using VOLT. I completed kern settings in VOLT and it works, but only in VOLT. When I ship the font it recognize only kerning between numbers, but not between...
View ArticleGurmukhi typeface recommendations
Firstly, I realise that this is an Arabic subforum. But, I cannot find an appropriate place to post this. I work with translators. There is a Punjabi poem that one wishes to be typeset in both the...
View ArticleNeed to create a font for honorifics.
Peace be upon all my friends!I want to create my own font for honorifics, to use in my website.The challenge is that I would like to create ligatures to ensure that entire phrases are replaced by...
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Twin Pencils 4 Jawi Typography
http://mylib.cakna.net/index.php/2014/article/download/657/638 Sorry no time to translatehttps://translate.google.com/#ms/en/Twin%20Pencil%20dan%20tipografiAttachmentSizeTipografi Jawi.pdf832.2 KB
View ArticleArabic Collections of Books and Manuscripts Online: A Free Resource
New Your University's Library is joined by other university libraries to provide scanned printed Arabic, Farsi etc. books and manuscripts.http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/
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Jawi Workshop in Singapore
Jawi has been an integral part of the Malay culture since the dawn of Islam in the Malay Archipelago region. It shaped the identity and distinction of the Malays in the past. Jawi also acts as a link...
View ArticleFont with Phonetic Arabic
I am a historian, and not an expert in fonts, but I am frustrated. I am looking for an English font that has the equivalent phonetic letters to Arabic letters. Eg. A heavy T with a dot under it, a...
View ArticleArabic Mark Positioning pdf display problem
Hi I adjusted the mark positioning lookup for my Arabic opentype font in VOLT. The shipped font works correctly in most applications in Mac, PC and ioS8 . However I discovered a case where problems...
View ArticleAny tuturial about Kerning arabic font in MS Volt?
Any tutorial about how to kerning in Arabic font in MS Volt? I need to know the right way to kerning
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AlQuds OpenType Arabic Fonts Released
Proudly announcing the completion of a type projected I started as a teenager in Palestine around 1961 - AlQuds ('Holy One' the Arabic name for Jerusalem) is probably the first Arabic San-serif type...
View ArticleLooking for Arabic fonts to combine with Gill Sans in headlines and with...
Hello everybody, Right now I'm designing an academic online magazine, and I'm looking for 1) an Arabic font to pair with Gill Sans for headlines (light) and sub-heads (reg) 2) an Arabic font to pair...
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TypoGrid, Create your square kufi, pixel arts, grid typography
typogrid is a smart tool for typographers and graphic designers helps them to create typography letters and pixel arts based on the grids system.In 2011, I developed the first version of this web...
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