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Re: finding a good Arabic font
- To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: finding a good Arabic font
- From: Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:24:01 +0000
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On Monday 09 July 2007 13:47:44 Boncek, John wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for a good-appearing Arabic font or set of fonts for an
> embedded application. Memory is tight, so a reasonably small size is
> important, preferably under one megabyte. Screen space is also limited,
> so a font that appears at less than 20 pixels or so total height while
> still being legible would be desirable. The application runs in Linux
> with GTK and Pango using the Unicode encoding UTF-8. Can you recommend a
> suitable font or set of fonts?
>
> Sincerely,
> John Boncek
The most visible and readable Arabic font I know specially on a small sized
text is DejaVu Sans (http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page).
Nazli is a good and more traditional choice (
http://www.farsiweb.ir/wiki/Products/PersianFonts ).