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Arabic Graffiti book by Pascal Zoghbi to be published this week.
‘Arabic calligraphy and type design’ article by Kristyan Sarkis published on Typotheque website, showing development of the Thuraya typeface.
10 May 2011 — 12:40pm
The Graffiti book looks nice. But I don't get the cover at all...
Thuraya's baseline-shift trick is cool.
hhp
11 May 2011 — 4:49pm
Thuraya's baseline-shift trick is cool.
You mean the unitisation of the baseline shift, or the cursive attachment mechanism in general. The latter is not new, and has been implemented in other OT fonts, but the unitisation in Thuraya is interesting because unlike various historical forms of type unitisation it isn't a technical requirement or limitation but a positive feature of the design.
11 May 2011 — 5:22pm
I meant the discrete stair-stepping, which seems like an elegant simplification.
hhp
11 May 2011 — 6:45pm
Very interesting.
Yes 'stair-stepping' might be very convenient in design development.
18 Aug 2012 — 4:50am
Kashida-free + stepping font that typesets uneven word + line spacings?!
http://typophile.com/node/81970
13 Jun 2012 — 12:18pm
السلام علیكم جناب محترمی جان ہڈ سن
میں یہاں نیا ہوں اور آپ سے ایم ایس وولٹ كے بارے پوچھنا چاہتا ہوں كہ یہ كیا كام كرتا ہے اور كیسے
مثلا لح انٹ لگیچر بنا ہوا ہے مگر لحی لگیچر نہیں چل رہا وولٹ میں اس كی كیا وجہ ہوسكتی ہے اگر آپ اس بارے میں جانتے ہیں تو میری رہنمائی فرمائیں
والسلام
ضیائ الحسن واسطی
13 Aug 2012 — 6:27am
What a great find! How does it come I didn't see this thread before? A very informative article, with a lot of hard work put into those illustrations. Looking forward to buying a copy of Zoghbi's Arabic Graffiti.