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Ahmed Outline

- by Ahmed Ali
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Ahmed Outline
  Format: OpenType

Price: US$ 135.00
  
... is part of the Ahmed Font Family, comprising altogether 2 fonts in OpenType format.
Character set features:
euro fractions ligatures proplining arabic
545 characters
Character maps: Encoding map   
Product is contained in:
Linotype OpenType Library 1.0 Bundle CD for Mac OS and Windows
Ahmed Complete Family Pack
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Shop for Arabic Fonts in the Linotype Library Linotype offers a lot of new, modern and traditional Arabic fonts. These fonts are available in OpenType format and they support the Arabic, Persian and Urdu languages. But that´s not all: These fonts also include basis Latin characters that match the Arabic in style and weight, and an extra set of proportional numerals, and they adhere to Linotype´s high standard of technical quality. Linotype´s 1st Arabic Type Design Competition: The jury [...]
Ahmed™ is a modern Arabic headline face, first produced by Linotype-Hell Ltd. in the early 1980s. Originally developed as a simplified face, its design recalls the inscriptional and decorative tile work lettering of the medieval period. The strong treatment of the tails of certain characters departs from the more traditional style of tapering these finials, introducing a modern feel to the design. The contrasting proportions of the tall vertical strokes and the rather elongated counters [...]

About Ahmed Outline ...

Linotype usage sample for Ahmed Outline
Designer: Ahmed Ali, ca. 1980
Ahmed Outline belongs to the Ahmed Font Family which is part of the Linotype Originals.
Ahmed is a modern Arabic headline face, first produced by Linotype-Hell Ltd. in the early 1980s.

Originally developed as a simplified face, its design recalls the inscriptional and decorative tile work lettering of the medieval period. The strong treatment of the tails of certain characters departs from the more traditional style of tapering these finials, introducing a modern feel to the design.

The contrasting proportions of the tall vertical strokes and the rather elongated counters lend a monumental look to Ahmed, allowing its effective use in titling. During the later 1980s Ahmed was developed into a traditional typeface, with the introduction of medial forms to improve character spacing and balance. Recently, Ahmed has been converted into the OpenType font format, ensuring its continued popularity as a heading face for newspaper typesetting.

The Ahmed typeface contains two weights, Ahmed and Ahmed Outline. Both of the OpenType fonts include Latin glyphs from Clearface Gothic Roman inside the font files, allowing a single font to set text in both most Western European and Arabic languages

The two Ahmed OpenType fonts include the Basic Latin character set (Western CP 1252 Latin 1/ANSI and Macintosh US Roman) and the Arabic character set (CP 1256), which supports Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. They include tabular and proportional Arabic, Persian, and Urdu numerals, as well as a set of tabular European (Latin) numerals.
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