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Monotype Arabic fonts

The Arabic font library at Agfa Monotype: Akhbar (late 70s), Andalé Arabic (late 90s), Monotype Koufi (mid 70s, or Agfa Koufi), Lakhdar Ghazal (late 70s), Monotype Madrasah (90s), Mudir (mid 70s), Monotype Naskh (1945), Noori Nastaliq (for Urdu), Sabara, Sabara Display, Shayyal, Monotype Thuluth (mid 70s), Traditional Arabic (1992, or Agfa Traditional; download here), Agfa Ousbouh, Agfa Simplified, and Arabic Borders. Noteworthy is that many other font families have several language sets. For example, Tahoma's Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs were drawn by Matthew Carter. The Monotype staff later added Thai, Arabic and Hebrew characters in the same style. Monotype's first Arabic font was called Arabic (1938), and was renamed to Zohar and then Jawhar. At one point, they also had a font family called Boutros Kufic and another called Boutros Setting, but just as with the Zohar family, they are no longer in the catalog. On Noori Nastaliq: Noori Nastaliq typeface and ligature system was designed by Mr. Mirza Jamil T.I. Because of its calligraphic nature, Noori Nastaliq is not available as a standard font for the common hardware platforms. The addressing of this font requires specially customized software and ligature access tables.

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