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Designer of the Arabic / Kurdish font K_hjmearok (1997). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alan Wood
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The Arabic script is used for the following languages: Arabic, Farsi (the official language of Iran), Jawi (the Arabic alphabet for Malay used until the 17th century), Kurdish, Pashto (the official language of Afghanistan), Sindhi (an Indo-Aryan language with about 9 million speakers in the south-eastern province of Sind in Pakistan and in India) and Urdu (the official language of Pakistan); it can also be used for Punjabi (which is spoken in Pakistan and the Indian state of Panjab, but only in Pakistan is it written using Arabic script). It is cursive, caseless, and written right-to-left. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cankat Saribas is UX/UI, graphic, and type desginer of Armenian and Alevi-Kurdish background who was born and raised in London. In 2022, he designed the stencil display typeface Dersima, as an homage to the victims of genocide and oppression. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of a family of Kurdish typefaces called K Dylan. These include K-Dylan-Apo, KDylanArdalanWeb, KDylanBabanWeb, KDylanBotanWeb, KDylanKurdiWeb, KDylanMukrianWeb, and KDylanSoranWeb. Full fonts for 100USD from KurdSoft. Download here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ernst Tremel s based in Muenster, Germany. He designed a Devanagari font called ShiDeva that includes a "volt" table and many ligatures. His pages also cover Tamil, and one can download the ETTamilNew font. He also has a Kurdish font, as well as maps about the Kurds and about Indian languages. About the Kurdish font, he writes: Kurdish AllAlphabets contains 694 glyphs and 529 standard kern pairs: Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic script. There are OpenType tables for Arabic and embedded bitmaps included. He joined the Open Font Library movement. He offers Ahuramazda there, which is an alphabet for the Avestan language: Avestan was an Iranian language in which the earliest Zoroastrian hymns were orally transmitted since 1500 BCE. Due to lingusitic change, fluency in Avestan as spoken a thousand years earlier was deteorating, and hence the need to write the language became increasingly apparent. By the 3rd century CE an alphabet was created to write down the ancient Avestan language. OFL link. Alternate URL. And another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hasan Abu Afash
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Irbil, Iraq-based designer of the monoline Kurdish font Qshtoka (2014). Free download. Earlier he made a series of 32 Arabic / Kurdish typefaces called Kazhin 1 through Kazhin 32 (2014). Free download. See also here. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hiba Studio
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Releases in 2012 include HS Future Sans (with Abdulsamie Rajab Salem), HS Amal, HS Alfaris, HS Al Basim A, and HS Almohandis. Typefaces from 2013: HS Alwafa, HS Masrawy (a display typeface done with Abdulsamiea Rajab Salem), HS Elham (Kufi). Behance link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Creators of Kurdish Web (1998), a font for Kurdish. Also, free ParsNegarII fonts for all platforms, and in Persian, Arabic and Urdu flavors. ISC stands for International Systems Consultancy. Web fonts subpage. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Later, an X Series 2 was published under the name XB Zar. These free fonts were specially designed with the web in mind. The collection includes XBKayhan-Bold, XBKayhan-BoldItalic, XBKayhan-Italic, XBKayhan, XBKayhanNavaar, XBKayhanPook, XBKayhanSayeh, XBKhoramshahr-Bold, XBKhoramshahr-BoldItalic, XBKhoramshahr-Italic, XBKhoramshahr-Oblique, XBKhoramshahr-ObliqueBold, XBKhoramshahr, XBNiloofar-Bold, XBNiloofar-BoldItalic, XBNiloofar-Italic, XBNiloofar, XBRiyaz-Bold, XBRiyaz-BoldItalic, XBRiyaz-Italic, XBRiyaz, XBRoya-Bold, XBRoya-BoldItalic, XBRoya-Italic, XBRoya, XBShafigh-Bold, XBShafigh-BoldItalic, XBShafigh-Italic, XBShafigh, XBShafighKurd-Bold, XBShafighKurd-BoldItalic, XBShafighKurd-Italic, XBShafighKurd, XBShafighUzbek-Bold, XBShafighUzbek-BoldItalic, XBShafighUzbek-Italic, XBShafighUzbek, XBShiraz-Bold, XBShiraz-BoldItalic, XBShiraz-Italic, XBShiraz, XBSols-Bold, XBSols-BoldItalic, XBSols-Italic, XBSols, XBTabriz-Bold, XBTabriz-BoldItalic, XBTabriz-Italic, XBTabriz, XBTitre-Italic, XBTitre, XBTitreShadow-Italic, XBTitreShadow, XBYagut-Bold, XBYagut-BoldItalic, XBYagut-Italic, XBYagut, XBYas-Bold, XBYas-BoldItalic, XBYas-Italic, XBYas, XBZar-Bold, XBZar-BoldItalic, XBZar-Italic, XBZar-Oblique, XBZar-ObliqueBold, XBZar, XMTraffic-Bold, XMTraffic-BoldItalic, XMTraffic-Italic, XMTraffic, XMVahid-Bold, XMVahid-BoldItalic, XMVahid-Italic, XMVahid, XMYermook-Bold, XMYermook-BoldItalic, XMYermook-Italic, XMYermook, XPVosta-Bold, XPVosta-BoldItalic, XPVosta-Italic, XPVosta, XPZiba-Bold, XPZiba-BoldItalic, XPZiba-Italic, XPZiba. For XB Kayhan, see also this Open Font Library link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Developers of the first OpenType fully Unicode compliant table for the Kurdish language. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Used to have 112 Kurdish truetype fonts. Still has these fonts: Zanest-_-Zakho, Zanest-_-Dyar-Bakr, Zanest-_-Ghlbish, Zanest-_-Govar, Zanest-_-nzarky, Zanest-_-Dohuk-Sahifa, Zanest-_-Dewany-Mzakhrif, Zanest-_-Hawlear, Zanest-_-Sarsink, Zanest-_-Hawlear2, Zanest-_-Hrory-Holl, Zanest-_-Maten, Zanest-_-Roqaa-normal, Zanest-_-Saidava, Zanest-_-Spna. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free Kurdish fonts from 2002 by Kurdit Group: Unikurd-Digital, Unikurd-Ezmer, zkurd-aras, Unikurd-Goran, Unikurd-Goran, Unikurd-Nali, Unikurd-Naske, Unikurd-Qandil, Unikurd-Hiwa, Unikurd-Roonak, Unikurd-Chimen, Unikurd-Hejar, Unikurd-Kamran, Unikurd-Magroon, Unikurd-Midya, Unikurd-penos, Unikurd-Sirwan, Unikurd-Tishk, Unikurd-Kale, Unikurd-Hana, Unikurd-Hemen, Unikurd-Jino, Unikurd-Kawe, Unikurd-Koch, Unikurd-Mestan, Unikurd-Peshiw, Unikurd-Rawanduz, Unikurd-Reyhan, Unikurd-Siber, Unikurd-Seyran, Unikurd-Tewar, Unikurd-Xezal, Unikurd-Yadgar, Unikurd-Shilan, Unikurd-Xani, Unikurd-Xatoon, Zkurd-Siamend, zkurd-Wllat, zkurd-ali.M. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Large Unicode fonts
| Alan Wood lists and discusses the main free Unicode fonts. As of 2010, these include:
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Arabic typefaces in the Linotype library: AlHarf AlJadid (a black titling font by Ismet Chanbour, 1985), Hassan (H. Sidahmed, 1993), Hisham (Ahmed Maged, 1993), Karim (Tim Holloway, 1994, in a generic Naskh style), Qalmi (a Nastaaliq font with horizontal stress), Lotus (Linotype staff, 1978; classic Ottoman Naskh book style font with extra glyphs for Kurdish, Farsi and Jawi), Maged (Linotype staff, 1956, 1987), Mariam (a modern headline font by Ismet Chanbour, 1992), Mofid Mahdi (Mofid Mahdi, 1985), Nazanin (Linotype staff, 1978; this was first called Haghighi), Qadi (Linotype staff, 1985, under the direction of Walter Tracy), Yakout (Linotype staff, 1911), Ahmed (simplified face, early 80s), Ahmed Outline, Amer (originally designed for dry transfer and licensed from Lettera Arabica; redrawn by Adrian Williams and then digitized; published in 1992), Badr (traditional Naskh style, early 70s), Jalal (1977), Kufi (Georges Dib, 1987), Kufi Outline (Linotype staff), Mitra (partially based on the Persian Naskh style, 70s). LinotypePideNashi is an Arabic simulation font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arabic type foundry and design studio in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. In 2016, they created the font families Nizar Art, Niar web serveroff, Nizar BBC Kurdish, nizar Flat, and Nizar Alhurra. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dead link. Commercial pack of 16 Kurdish fonts: Abadan, Alborz, Anzali, Astara, Esfahan, Gorgan, Khorasan, Pasargard, Perspolis, Ramsar, Shiraz, Sistan, Tabriz, Tehran, Urmiye and Zabol. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An interesting outfit. Listed as being from Pirmam (or Permam) in Kurdistan, and from FLK, they "made" some Latin fonts by renaming them. I provide a "translation list" below. List: the Arabic script fonts QHS-Arabic-lettersB, QHS-Arabic-letters_A, and the Latin fonts QHS Arabic lettersB (Bookman Old Style Regular), QHS Arabic letters_A (Bookman Old Style Regular), QHS Arial Narrow (Arial Narrow Regular), QHS Avista One (TrafficITC-Normal), QHS Avista two (URW:AlgerianBasD:1994), QHS Bihzany One (ITC Pioneer, Decorated 081), QHS Bihzany Two (Snell Bold, English 401), QHS Bookman Old Style (Bookman Old Style Regular), QHS Lalish One (Amelia, Computer 651), QHS Lalish Three (Bertram LET Plain), QHS Lalish two (ITC Bauhaus Bold, Geometric 752), QHS Lucida Handwriting (Lucida Handwriting Italic), QHS Nadejda (Wedding Text, Blackletter 681), QHS Times (Monotype: Times New Roman Regular), QHS Zeradesht One (QuicksilverITC-Normal), QHS Zeradesht One (URW:BuxomD:1994), QHS Zeradesht Three (Hazel LET Plain), QHS Zeradesht Two (URW:CroissantD). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Kurdistan, Iraq-based designer of the rounded sans typeface family Twitter Kurdish Font (2015). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the Arabic and Kurdish fonts AF_DeyarBaker-KurdishMNB, AF_Diwany-Kurdish-MNB, AF_Diwany-MNB, AF_Dohuk-Kurdish-MNB, AF_Dohuk-MNB, AF_Halabja-KurdishMNB, AF_Hijaz-Normal, AF_Jeddah-Normal-Traditional, AF_Jizan-Normal-Traditional, AF_Najed-Kurdi, AF_Najed-Normal-Traditional, Kurdi-_shiva-Kure, Zanest-_Arabic-Dyar-Bakr, AF_Nakesh-KurdishMNB, AF_Quseem-Normal-Traditional, AF_Riyadh-Normal-Traditional, AF_Tabook-Normal-Traditional, AF_Tholoth-Normal-Traditional, AF_Unizah-Normal-Traditional, AF_Halabja-KurdihsMNB, Zanest-_-Ghlbish, AF_Unziq-KurdishMNB, from 1993 until 1997. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zak Design
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In 2013, he extrapolated the Sony Walkman logo into his Sony Walkman organic font. He also made the Arabic typefaces Bon Font, Saramah, Aqeeq, Graphici, Asri, Ink Drip, Arabic Script, Ink Stream, Alqusair, and Diana Extra, and the octagonal Latin / Arabic typeface Shohadaa. Typefaces from 2014: Ara Hala Bo She'sha, Ara Hamah 1964 B Bold, Ara Hamah 1964 R Light, Ara Hamah 1982, Ara Hamah AlFidaa, Ara Hamah AlHorra, Ara Hamah AlThawra, Ara Hamah Alislam, Ara Hamah Homs, Ara Hamah Kilania, Ara Hamah Sahet AlAssi, Ara Hamah Zanki, Ara Hamah City, Assaf, Haneen (signage script), Sally (with Sally Alzaza), Bondoq, Amal (art deco for Latin and Arabic), Lamis, Hilary, Saba, Mary (piano key typeface), Nisreen, Hajar, Kufi, Muslimah (free), Ahrar, Ghang Tachkili and Djadli Tachkili (designed by Jadli Zein Alabedeen (Algeria) and programmed by Zakaria Saleh), Al Hadari, El Maidan, Israr Syria, Etab AmMoniee, Hala, Hamah, Al Bayan, Assaf, Baghdad. Typefaces from 2015: Handmade (custom Latin/Arabic font for a Palestinian store), K24 (a corporate font for Kurdistan 24 channel), Hattan (Latin and Arabic), Nicole, Natalie, MasterFont, Naskh, Moscow (constructivist Arabic typeface). Typefaces from 2016: Joory, Twitter Headline Type, TV Sans, Corporative Sans (Latin and Arabic), Eliyaa Pro, Yasmin, Feather, Bein Sports Network typeface. Typefaces from 2017: Halimah. Typefaces from 2018: Media Pro, Maghfira. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Zakariya Saleh
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