The Adobe Arabic typefaces were commissioned to from Tiro Typeworks and designed by Tim Holloway in 2004-05. The design brief was to create a type household that would meet the requirements of modern-day service interactions in all the languages supported by the Unicode Arabic character set: not simply various types of Arabic, however also Persian, Urdu, and lots of other main and south Asian languages written in the Arabic script and using distinct letterforms and diacritics. The design required to be clean and contemporary, and likewise to be readable on screen in, for example, interactive PDF types. From the outset the two requirements of screen text clearness and linguistic versatility identified the basis of the design.
Clarity is achieved with enlarged, open counters reminiscent of simplified Arabic types.
But to extend the core Arabic glyph set to easily support extra languages, more flexible and varied concepts were required. Rather of trying to follow regional naskh choices in styling the non-Arab glyphs, risking disharmony, the style progressed by recommendation to the broader shared heritage of thuluth inscriptional forms.
This led to a more flowing signing up with line and the incorporation of calligraphically-informed variations and ligatures.
The additional stroke weight of the Vibrant was applied so that, in the exact same type size, the Vibrant does not appear larger than its buddy Regular so can be used within the line for emphasis as well as for headings.
The set of vocalization signs was customized to permit their complete usage without the need to extend the text with tatweel. Vocalization and other marks are located dynamically using OpenType glyph placing lookups. Note that Quranic marks and other purely religious characters are not supported by the typefaces, given that these fall outside the design quick for a modern-day interactions type family.
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