Provided by Sakkal Design, a Bitstream Font Partner
Bitstream has an agreement with Mamoun Sakkal of Sakkal Design to license a wide variety of classic and contemporary Arabic fonts. A well-respected typographer, Mamoun Sakkal is a calligrapher and typeface designer who has received international awards in both calligraphy and typeface design.
These are all OpenType typefaces that support Arabic including Moroccan and Persian languages. Shown below, the Hasan Alquds, Sakkal Baseet Bold, and Sakkal Majala typefaces support the Arabic script range in Unicode 4.1, which also includes: Urdu, Pashto, Uighur, Sindhi, old Malay, old Hausa, Kurdish, Berber, and other less common scripts.
* Note that Arabic text is composed and read right-to-left.
You can use Bitstream Panorama to lay out complex lines of Arabic text. A text composition engine, Bitstream Panorama supports international languages, including such script languages as Arabic and Indian.
Here are examples of Arabic text composed for a mobile phone operating system. The screenshot on the left shows Arabic text composed incorrectly (note the missing character boxes), while the one on the right shows Arabic text composed correctly with Bitstream Panorama, our worldwide text composition engine.
Uncomposed Arabic Text Correctly Composed Arabic Text, Rendered in Bitstream Panorama
Using LCD Mode
Hasan Alquds Regular
A contemporary simple typeface. Based on a Kufi style. This typeface is designed by Hasan Abu Afash and Mamoun Sakkal.
Hasan Alquds image (JPG)
Sakkal Baseet Bold
A contemporary geometrical, and extremely simplified typeface. Based on a square Kufi style.
Sakkal Baseet Bold sample sheet (PDF)
Sakkal Majalla Family
A text typeface designed for maximum legibility in small sizes while maintaining a traditional look. Based on a cursive Naskh style. This is planned as a complete family that includes bold, medium, light, italic, as well as a monospaced stroke version of all these, and a calligraphic stroke font.
Bitstream currently has Sakkal Majalla Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, and Extra Bold.Sakkal Majalla sample sheet (PDF)
Sakkal Seta Pro Regular
A contemporary headlines typeface. Based on an Eastern Kufi style.
Arabic | Asian | Cyrillic | Greek | Hebrew | Indian | Thai | WGL4
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