Letters of Light : : Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design / / J. R. Osborn.
Arabic script is one of the world's most widely used writing systems, for Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. J. R. Osborn traces its evolution from the earliest inscriptions to digital fonts, from calligraphy to print and beyond. Students of communication, contemporary practitioners, and hi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- |t Introduction -- |t 1. The Layers of Proportional Naskh -- |t 2. Ottoman Script Design -- |t 3. European Printing and Arabic -- |t 4. Print in Ottoman Lands -- |t 5. Questions of Script Reform -- |t 6. Arabic Script on Computers -- |t Coda -- |t NOTES -- |t BIBLIOGRAPHY -- |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- |t INDEX |
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| 520 | |a Arabic script is one of the world's most widely used writing systems, for Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. J. R. Osborn traces its evolution from the earliest inscriptions to digital fonts, from calligraphy to print and beyond. Students of communication, contemporary practitioners, and historians will find this narrative enlightening. | ||
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