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Design concept
Fedra Arabic takes into consideration the contemporary uses of Arabic type and offers a pragmatic solution for multilingual typesetting. The simplified forms of Arabic are stripped of all decoration while keeping the intrinsic structure of the Arabic writing system.
Arabic support
In order to use Arabic fonts, you need to use special version of InDesign, PhotoShop or Illustrator. These versions are called ME (Middle Eastern). These ME version support bi-directional text setting for Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew. The regular version of Adobe CS3 doesn’t support Arabic text setting. On Mac OS X, Arabic will work on a system level, in a web browser, in TextEdit, iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers).
Fedra Arabic is a Unicode-compliant font and is not compatible with QuarkXPress with ArabicXT extension from Layout Ltd, which uses old 8-bit font encoding (with 256 glyphs only).
Styles
Fedra Arabic is available in four styles: Book, Demi, Medium and Bold. No Italics. Small Caps are available for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic in the Multiscript versions.
Sans & Serif
Although the notion of Sans and Serif doesn’t exist in Arabic typography, we created two different packages for Fedra Sans and Serif. Obviously only the Latin characters are serrifed or not; Arabic glyphs are than matched for the typographic ‘colour’ of the text, so the Sans is slightly heavier than the Serif, because it has lower contrast between the thick and thin parts of the letters.
Font versions
We offer two different kinds of Arabic fonts: Fedra AR (Arabic), which supports only Arabic + Mac Roman set; and Fedra Multiscript, which offers the same Arabic glyphs + OpenType Pro (Western, Turkish, Central, Eastern European), Greek and Cyrillic, including advanced OpenType tables. Fedra AR includes 749 glyphs and Multiscript fonts 2.507 glyphs.
Authors
Fedra Arabic was designed by Peter Biľak in 2007, with consulting by Tarek Atrissi, and final mastering by Titus Nemeth.
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