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Summary:

Arabic is the third most widely used script in the world, and gave rise to one of the richest manuscript cultures of mankind. Its representation in type has engaged printers, engineers, businesses and designers since the 16th century, and today most digital devices render Arabic type. Yet the evolution of the printed form of Arabic, and its development from metal to pixels, has not been charted before. Arabic Type-making in the Machine Age provides the first comprehensive account of this history using previously undocumented archival sources. In this richly illustrated volume Titus Nemeth narrates the evolution of Arabic type under the influence of changing technologies from the perspective of a practitioner, combining historical research with applied design considerations.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
• Arabic Type in the New Millennium
• Situating this Book
• Aspects of the Arabic Script
• Typographic Representation of the Arabic Script
• Arabic Publishing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• 2. Mechanical Composition of Arabic
• Industrialisation of Printing
• Beginning of Arabic Mechanical Composition
• Mergenthaler Linotype's First Arabic Linecaster Founts
• Beginning of Arabic Type-Making at Linotype & Machinery
• Arabic Typewriter
• Arabic Script Reform
• Nasri Khattar's Endeavours in Arabic Type Design
• Ahmed Lakhdar Ghazal and the ASV Codar Type
• 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
• New Design: Series 8 with 9

• Monotype Hot-Metal Composition
• Monotype's First Arabic Typeface: Series 507
• Design for Urdu
• New Typeface for the Middle East
• Monotype Series 549, the Unwitting Mechanisation of Qur'an Typography
• Monotype Series 589, Full Vocalisation
• Beginning of Computer-Aided Arabic Composition
• 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.
• Widening Field, the Emergence of New Developers
• Arabic Type by the Photon Company
• Endeavours in Arabic Type / Dr Edward Plooij
• 4. Persian Type and Typography
• Early Persian Printing and Typography
• 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 Type
• KITAB Software for the Hell Digiset
• Compugraphic's Venture into Arabic Type
• Digital Tools in the Service of the ̀Hanging' Styles Nasta'liq and Ruq'a
• Nasta'liq 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
• 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
• Index
• People.

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Author/Creator:

Nemeth, Titus , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Arabic type-making in the machine age: the influence of technology on the form of Arabic type, 1908-1993 [by Nemeth, T.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Arabic type-making in the machine age [by Nemeth, T.] (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 — ISBN 9789004349308; LCCN 2017033680)

Related Series:

Islamic manuscripts and books; v. 14 (ISSN 1877-9964)

Subjects:

Arabic type — History — 20th century

Arabic type — Technological innovations

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

Z251.A6 N46 2017eb

ISBNs:

9789004349308
9004349308
9789004303775 [Invalid]
9004303774 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1012847924

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4920886 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp14701478