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Amiri is a revival of the beautiful typeface pioneered in early 20th century
Description
Amiri is a classical Arabic typeface in Naskh style for typesetting books and other running text. Its design is a revival of the beautiful typeface pioneered in early 20th century by Bulaq Press in Cairo, also known as Amiria Press, after which the font is named.
The uniqueness of this typeface comes from its superb balance between the beauty of Naskh calligraphy on one hand, the constraints and requirements of elegant typography on the other. Also, it is one of the few metal typefaces that were used in typesetting the Koran, making it a good source for a digital typeface to be used in typesetting Koranic verses.
Characteristics
| Homepage | Format & features | License | Review reference | Koji page | pkgdb page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| http://www.amirifont.org/ | TTF - OpenType (Apparently using many advanced features, but no clear documentation found) | OFL | ④ | ⑤ | ⑥ |
| Style | Faces | Scripts | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sans | Serif | Other | R | B | I | BI | Other | Latin | Greek | Cyrillic | Other | ||
| Variable | Monospace | Variable | Monospace | ||||||||||
| ① | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | ✘ | (It actually has 'slanted' rather than 'Italic') | ✘ | ar | ||||||
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