Arabic Type-Making in the Machine Age

Titus Nemeth, Ph.D. (Reading, 2014), is a type designer and historian. He has published articles on Arabic type history, and design. His practice revolves around type-making and typography, with a focus on the Arabic script.

• Note on Typographical Conventions Note on Terminology List of Archives List of Figures List of TablesAcknowledgements 1 IntroductionArabic Type in the New Millennium Situating this BookAspects of the Arabic Script The Typographic Representation of the Arabic Script Arabic Publishing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 2 Mechanical Composition of Arabic The Industrialisation of Printing The Beginning of Arabic Mechanical Composition Mergenthaler Linotype’s First Arabic Linecaster Founts The Beginning of Arabic Type-Making at Linotype & MachineryThe Arabic TypewriterArabic Script ReformNasri Khattar’s Endeavours in Arabic Type Design Ahmed Lakhdar Ghazal and the Asv Codar Type The Printing Trade and the Middle East after the Second World War Simplified Arabic, Kamel Mrowa, and Al-Hayat Simplified Arabic: Proof of Concept Intertype Abridged Arabic A New Design: Series 8 with 9 Monotype Hot-Metal Composition Monotype’s First Arabic Typeface: Series 507 A Design for Urdu A New Typeface for the Middle East Monotype Series 549, the Unwitting Mechanisation of Qurʾān Typography Monotype Series 589, Full Vocalisation The Beginning of Computer-Aided Arabic Composition The Development of Character Selection and Kashida Insertion Routines 3 Photocomposition: Towards Immaterial Type Beginnings of a New Technological Era Arabic on the Monophoto Expansion of Monotype’s Arabic Type Catalogue Simplified Arabic for Monophoto Arabic on Linotype Photocomposition Machines Towards an Arabic Photocomposition Programme Arabic Type Developments by Linotype-Paul Ltd. A Widening Field, the Emergence of New Developers Arabic Type by the Photon Company Endeavours in Arabic Type by Dr Edward Plooij 4 Persian Type and TypographyEarly Persian Printing and Typography A Simplified Typeface for Persian Mitra and Nazanin, the Consolidation of a Persian Typographical Identity 5 Beginnings of Digital Arabic Type Type Loses its Material Properties Pierre MacKay and Computer-generated Arabic TypeThe KITAB Software for the Hell Digiset Compugraphic’s Venture into Arabic Type Digital Tools in the Service of the ‘Hanging’Styles Nastaʿlīq and Ruqʿä Nastaʿlīq on the Monotype Lasercomp Linotype Ruq’ah, the Exploration of a Writing Style Linotype Sheeraz, a New Approach to Arabic Type 6 Looking Forward: PostScript and Beyond The End of Machine-dependence Linotype’s Arabic PostScript Programme Upheaval and Convergence, on the Road to Unicode Desktop Publishing Tools for Arabic DecoType 7 Complexities and Simplifications: Factors in the Evolution of Arabic Type-Making Progress through Technology Collaboration between East and West Cultural Identity Expressed through Type Radical Innovation and its Limits Did Technological Advances Improve Arabic Type ? Epilogue: Arabic Type-Making Today Annex 1 Annex 2 Bibliography Published Sources Patents Online Sources Unpublished Sources IndexPeople Subjects