Yakout® Font Family

Yakout® Light (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 135.00

Yakout® Bold (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 135.00

Yakout® Complete Family Value Pack (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 270.00

Shop 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 [...]

Yakout is an Arabic text face that was developed by Linotype & Machinery in 1956 for hot-metal typesetting. Similar to the typewriter fonts created during this period, it utilises a limited range of letterforms to represent a full Arabic characer set, thus forming a style of type design known as Simplified Arabic. The skilful reshaping of letterforms demanded by the constraints of the original restrictive technology has given Yakout a very dynamic effect, and has helped to produce a design whose overall pattern works particularly well in newspaper setting.

Digital technology has enhanced the original design by permitting the introduction of wide characters and some additional letterforms, and by improving the joining of the strong, slightly curved baseline.

Yakout is available in two OpenType weights: Yakout Light and Yakout Bold. Both of the fonts include Latin glyphs (from Times Europa Roman and Times Europa Bold, respectively) inside the font files, allowing a single font to set text in both most Western European and Arabic languages.

Yakout incorporate the Basic Latin character set (Western CP 1252 Latin 1/ANSI and Macintosh US Roman) and support all languages that use the Arabic script. They include tabular and proportional Arabic, Persian, and Urdu numerals and a set of tabular European (Latin) numerals.