![]() Ultimately, both the Latin and Arabic are graceful designs based on classic proportions, prioritising the beauty, tranquility, and fluid nature of the wordsmith’s art. Finally, the spacing and connections in the Arabic were considered to achieve comparable colour as the Latin in a block of text. ![]() First, the Arabic letter sizes were readjusted so as to not appear larger next to the Latin, then weight and contrast were changed in the same way. So it was decided to give Athelas Arabic a thorough reworking to make them appropriate companions while maintaining the natural aesthetic qualities of Arabic. ![]() Originally designed independently, it worked entirely on its own and yet already seemed a good fit for Athelas. Katts’s soft-vowel diacritic marks (harakat) are positioned with most of them appearing on similar lower or upper positions to emphasize they are not part of letters.Īthelas Arabic, created by talented Iranian designer Sahar Afshar, is an elegant typeface for fine digital and printed books - perfect for Arabic literature’s captivating forms. Khatt includes the required Lam-Alif ligatures in addition to all vowel diacritic ligatures. The Mutamathil Taqlidi type style uses one glyph per every basic Arabic Unicode character or letter, as defined by the Unicode Standards, and one additional final form glyph, for each freely-connecting letter in an Arabic text. The script design of this font family follows the Arabetics Mutamathil Taqlidi style and utilizes varying x-heights. ![]() Each weight has normal and left-slanted “italic” styles. It comes with five weights, regular, medium, bold, light, and ultra-light. ![]() Khatt supports all Arabetic scripts covered by Unicode 6.1, and the latest Arabic Supplement and Extended-A Unicode blocks, including support for Quranic texts. Even though Khatt is a cursive style font it offers clearly distinguished and visually unified letter shapes in every position of a word. The word Khatt is also the word for calligraphy in the Arabic language. Khatt tries to mimic the concept behind the meaning of the Arabic word Khatt: a straight horizontal line. ![]()
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