| Category | naskh |
|---|---|
| Foundry | Monotype |
| Date created | 1956 |
Traditional Arabic is an Arabic naskh-based typeface first developed by Monotype as Series 589 in the spring of 1956. [1] [2] It featured a system of interlocking sorts to allow for the diacritics to properly display over the letters they modify. [1]
Whereas Linotype's typeface Simplified Arabic or Yakout had become the standard for newspapers, the Traditional Arabic typeface became the preferred for quality book printing. [1]
In the 1970s and 1980s, Compugraphic plagiarized Traditional Arabic as well as Simplified Arabic; they had both become ubiquitous. [1] When the Belgian Agfa-Gevaert Corporation came to control Compugraphics, it licensed the fonts it plagiarized to Microsoft for use in Microsoft Windows. [1]
