Jazm

A Modern visualization of Jazm, the pre-Islamic, style of contemporary Arabic script. A typeface design with connected glyphs. Jazm was the earliest, pre-Islamic, script style, before branching into Kufi and Naskh styles. The initial script had a lot less, position-dependent shapes and ligatures, and was not strictly connected. It occasionally included minuscule dots to distinguish identical shapes. This font family design is a modern visualization by the designer of the historical Jazm letter shapes following the guidelines of the Mutamathil Taqlidi type style with one glyph for every basic A

Published by Arabetics

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Released
2009

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