Arabic typography
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arabic-typography-178-14606562
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Arabic typography
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Arabic typography is the typography of letters, graphemes, characters or text in Arabic script, for example for writing Arabic, Persian, 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 Arabic writing: calligraphy, style and system. Calligraphy requires aesthetically skilled writing in a chosen canonical style such as naskh, nastaʿlīq or ruqʿah. System denotes the script
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Design of type in the Arabic alphabet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_typography
date created:
2020-09-02T17:40:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T15:45:50Z
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