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Sultan Fonts [Sultan Almaktari]

Located in Aden (Yemen), Sultan Almaktari (or Sultan Maqtari, or Sultan Maktari) created these Arabic fonts in 2003: Sultan-Medium, Sultan-bold, Sultan-koufi-Bold-2, Sultan-koufi-Bold, Sultan-koufi-circular, Sultan-koufi, Sultan-light, Sultan-light2, Sultan-musnad, Sultan-normal, Sultan-rectangle, Sultan Free. Download here. Sultan Maktari created the Arabic text typeface Sultan Free, which won the first prize for Arabic text type at Linotype's 1st Arabic Type Design Competition in April 2006. That typeface can be bought from Linotype. The web site was overhauled in 2009, and Sultan Fonts now offers both traditional and modern Arabic fonts.

The list in 2009: Aden, Nada, Shamsan, Sultan, Sera, Balloon, Yemen, Noha, Maeen, Free, Mona, Nahia (2005, Linotype), Waddah, Sana'a, Hemear, Belqees, Mohammed, Hadramut, Mareb, Saba, Thuyazan, Zabeed, Mahra, Digital, Mobil, Ausan, Musnad, Ruqah.

List of typefaces as of 2013: Pumice (Latin / Arabic typeface family for text and screen), Sultan Hussein (angular, contains Latin as well), Sultan Aden-black, Sultan Alweeam, Sultan Change, Sultan Free, Sultan Hemear-black, Sultan Hemear-bold, Sultan Hemear-light, Sultan Kufi, Sultan Kufi2, Sultan Mareb, Sultan Mohammed, Sultan Nahia, Sultan Naskh, Sultan Naskh2, Sultan Qatar-Spirit, SF Shabwa (a sans for Latin, Arabic, Farsi and Urdu), Sultan Shamsan, Sultan Tahrer, Sultan Thuyazan-Bold, Sultan Tihama, Sultan-naskh-Handwriting, Sultan Ruq'ah-Bold, Sultan Ruq'ah-Light, Sultan Ruq'ah-Regular.

In 2018, he added SF Kitab and Sultan Free Bold (despite the name, this is far from free).

Typefaces from 2019: Tarim (a text typeface for Latin and Cyrillic).

Typefaces from 2020: SF Pastel (a simplified Arabic Ruqah font).

Typefaces from 2021: SF Mayyun (an Arabic text typeface), Aden.

Klingspor link. Behance link. Home page.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Sultan Fonts
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INTERNAL LINKS
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