Traditional Arabic

Traditional Arabic is an Arabic naskh-based typeface first developed by Monotype as Series 589 in the spring of 1956.[1][2] It featured a system of interlocking sorts to allow for the diacritics to properly display over the letters they modify.[1]

Traditional Arabic
or Series 589
Categorynaskh
FoundryMonotype
Date created1956

Whereas Linotype's typeface Simplified Arabic or Yakout had become the standard for newspapers, the Traditional Arabic typeface became the preferred for quality book printing.[3]

In the 1970s and 80s, Compugraphic plagiarized Traditional Arabic as well as Simplified Arabic; they had both become ubiquitous.[4] When the Belgian Agfa-Gevaert Corporation came to control Compugraphics, it licensed the fonts it plagiarized to Microsoft for use in Microsoft Windows.[4]

References
  1. Nemeth, Titus (2017). Arabic type-making in the Machine Age. The influence of technology on the form of Arabic type, 1908-1993. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-30377-5. OCLC 993032900.
  2. alib-ms. "Traditional Arabic font family - Typography". docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
  3. Nemeth, Titus (2017). Arabic type-making in the machine age : the influence of technology on the form of Arabic type, 1908-1993. Leiden. p. 460. ISBN 978-90-04-34930-8. OCLC 993752295.
  4. Nemeth, Titus (2017). Arabic type-making in the machine age : the influence of technology on the form of Arabic type, 1908-1993. Leiden. pp. 459–462. ISBN 978-90-04-34930-8. OCLC 993752295.
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