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2. Kufic - Wikipedia

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   The Kufic script (Arabic: الْخط الْكوُفِي; Romanized: ‘Al-khat ‘al-Kūfī) is a style of Arabic script that gained prominence early on as a preferred script for Quran transcription and architectural decoration, and it has since become a reference and an archetype for a number of other Arabic scripts.

3. Helvetica - Wikipedia

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   This is an extremely large font family with optical sizes spaced for different sizes of text and other variants such as stencil styles. [146] Florian Hardwig has described its display-oriented styles, with tight spacing, as more reminiscent of Helvetica as used in the 1970s from cold type than any official Helvetica digitisation.

4. Typeface - Wikipedia

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   Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, [a] the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.

5. Fraktur - Wikipedia

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   A modern sans-serif and four blackletter typefaces (left to right): Textur (a), Rotunda, Schwabacher and Fraktur. Fraktur (German: [fʁakˈtuːɐ̯] ⓘ) is a calligraphic hand of the Latin alphabet and any of several blackletter typefaces derived from this hand. It is designed such that the beginnings and ends of the individual strokes that ...

6. Italic type - Wikipedia

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   Italic is only used for the lower case and not for capitals. [ 1 ] In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] Along with blackletter and roman type, it served as one of the major typefaces in the history of Western typography. Owing to the influence from calligraphy ...

7. List of typefaces - Wikipedia

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   Fonts which support a wide range of Unicode scripts and Unicode symbols are sometimes referred to as "pan-Unicode fonts", although as the maximum number of glyphs that can be defined in a TrueType font is restricted to 65,535, it is not possible for a single font to provide individual glyphs for all defined Unicode characters (154,998 ...