Fedra Arabic

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version 1.0

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© Peter Biľak, 2007

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The design characteristics.
The characteristics that were carried over to the design of the Arabic version are mainly the proportions of the Latin: the baseline, ascender and descender, which were kept identical. On the other hand, two middle heights were defined, which are different than the x-height of the Latin font. Rather than directly bringing shapes from Latin, it was mainly the character of the curves that has been adopted for the Arabic counterpart. In Fedra, the curves start fairly fl at and begin to turn relatively late, which creates a particular tension of shapes. The contrast between the thick and thin is maintained. This has allowed for keeping the same color in both the Latin and the Arabic text. Of course many things are not possible to translate from Latin to Arabic directly, so oneto be very sensitive not to impose the Latin structure on Arabic. The Arabic version uses the proportions and formal attributes of Fedra, but not its individual shapes. Because of the Semitic roots, the angle of the contrast is inverted, and what was the thickest horizontal in Latin, becomes the thickest vertical in Arabic. The same is true of the thinnest strokes, it is again rotated 90 degrees.

Fedra Arabic was designed so it can be combined with either Fedra Serif or Sans, by carefully matching the typographic ‘colour’ of the typeface.

The typeface is available in three different versions:
- Fedra Serif Arabic, 749 glyphs (Fedra Serif A + Fedra Arabic)
- Fedra Sans Arabic, 749 glyphs (Fedra Sans + Fedra Arabic)
- Fedra Sans Alt Arabic, 749 glyphs (Fedra Sans Alt + Fedra Arabic)
- Fedra Serif Multiscript, 2217 glyphs (Fedra Serif A Pro + Fedra Arabic)
- Fedra Sans Multiscript, 2217 glyphs (Fedra Sans Pro + Fedra Arabic)
- Fedra Sans Alt Multiscript, 2507 glyphs (Fedra Sans Alt Pro + Fedra Arabic)