> > BTW > > Serif (or times) means مذيل > > Sans or Arial means غير مذير > > > I like that translation :) BTW, Arabic has no such thing as serifs, it is > a Latin typography centric term. > true, if you look to T on arial or times the difference is that arial T is just two rectangles while the times one have got tails like a triangle on each edge
but in Arabic calligraphy we do have تذير it's decoration not a font face, for example in naskhi we can write Alif by moving the pen downward only or we can give it a tail by returning to the top of it and draw a small curve there this is a soft of Serif _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
