Adobe Arabic

What is the Adobe Arabic Font?

The Adobe Arabic typefaces were commissioned to from Tiro Typeworks and designed by Tim Holloway in 2004-05. The design brief was to create a type family that would meet the needs of modern business communications in all the languages supported by the Unicode Arabic character set: not just various forms of Arabic, but also Persian, Urdu, and many other central and south Asian languages written in the Arabic script and using distinctive letterforms and diacritics. The design needed to be clean and contemporary, and also to be readable on screen in, for example, interactive PDF forms. From the outset the two requirements of screen text clarity and linguistic versatility determined the basis of the design.. Clarity is achieved with enlarged, open counters reminiscent of simplified Arabic types.. But to extend the core Arabic glyph set to comfortably support additional languages, more flexible and varied principles were needed. Instead of trying to follow local naskh preferences in styling the non-Arab glyphs, risking disharmony, the design evolved by reference to the wider shared heritage of thuluth inscriptional forms.. This led to a more flowing joining line and the incorporation of calligraphically-informed variants and ligatures.. The extra stroke weight of the Bold was applied so that, in the same type size, the Bold does not appear bigger than its companion Regular so can be used within the line for emphasis as well as for headings.. The set of vocalization signs was tailored to permit their full use without the need to extend the text with tatweel. Vocalization and other marks are positioned dynamically using OpenType glyph positioning lookups. Note that Quranic marks and other purely religious characters are not supported by the fonts, since these fall outside the design brief for a modern communications type family.

Adobe Arabic Font Families

When you download Adobe Arabic, the family will include the following font styles:

• Adobe Arabic Regular
• Adobe Arabic Italic
• Adobe Arabic Bold
• Adobe Arabic Bold Italic

Preview of the Adobe Arabic Font

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Who Designed the Adobe Arabic Font?

This font has 4 style(s) and was published by Adobe.

Is Adobe Arabic a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Adobe Arabic is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Adobe Arabic. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Adobe Arabic for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Adobe Arabic if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Adobe Arabic to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Adobe Arabic for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Adobe Arabic, it was available for as little as $29.00.