Persian Sans Serif Fonts
213 views
Skip to first unread message
Vafa Khalighi
Jun 10, 2009, 9:16:50 AM6/10/09
to persian-...@googlegroups.com
Are there any good quality Persian Sans Serif font? If there is none, I would suggest Behnam making some, ofcourse if he got time. His XB Series fonts are awsome except digit zero and italic version of the fonts.
Connie Bobroff
Jun 10, 2009, 2:02:45 PM6/10/09
to persian-...@googlegroups.com
Since this has come up, please let me just take this opportunity to let anyone who doesn't know that these fonts are simply the greatest thing that ever happened to Persian:
Behnam ("Beh") has been working on them evenings and weekends now for I think, 5 years.
He started this project out of frustration that Mac had no decent Persian fonts but he has made fonts to work on any platform and which support all the Perso-Arabic languages and even Latin transliteration.
Note that it has been seen over and over that font deficiencies and font issues are the number one obstacle to implementing web standards in Persian. It always comes back to fonts and Behnam has really struggled with both standards and copyright issues. A fascinating story!
-Connie
Behdad Esfahbod
Jun 10, 2009, 2:26:32 PM6/10/09
to Connie Bobroff, persian-...@googlegroups.com
What's wrong with FarsiWeb fonts? Roya, Terafik, and Koodak are definitely
not serif, among other ones.
b
not serif, among other ones.
b
Behnam
Jun 10, 2009, 7:01:16 PM6/10/09
to Vafa Khalighi, persian-...@googlegroups.com
Serif was my personal preference in matching Roman with some Persian
typefaces. But not all X Series 2 fonts have serif Roman. My
adventure has come to an end and I don't make fonts anymore. I think
I exhausted all possibilities that the current font and text
rendering technology provides (in a practical manner) and short of
few variants such as the shape of zero or re-inventing italic face
(which does not exist in Persian writing) there is not much that the
current technology offers except perpetually repeating ourselves.
The fact of the matter is that there is no such a thing as Persian or
Arabic 'typography'. Publishing industry with its technological
limitations stripped off the Persian writing from all its natural
behavior. And now it's time to reclaim a font and text technology
that gives us back the ability to draw characters the same way we
draw them on the paper. Once this technology is established, then we
can start talking about the birth of Persian typography and its
endless possibilities.
Behnam
typefaces. But not all X Series 2 fonts have serif Roman. My
adventure has come to an end and I don't make fonts anymore. I think
I exhausted all possibilities that the current font and text
rendering technology provides (in a practical manner) and short of
few variants such as the shape of zero or re-inventing italic face
(which does not exist in Persian writing) there is not much that the
current technology offers except perpetually repeating ourselves.
The fact of the matter is that there is no such a thing as Persian or
Arabic 'typography'. Publishing industry with its technological
limitations stripped off the Persian writing from all its natural
behavior. And now it's time to reclaim a font and text technology
that gives us back the ability to draw characters the same way we
draw them on the paper. Once this technology is established, then we
can start talking about the birth of Persian typography and its
endless possibilities.
Behnam
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages