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DIN Text Arabic
PF DIN Text® Arabic was designed back in 2010 in order to complement Parachute’s popular DIN series (published in 2002) one of the most comprehensive set of DIN superfamilies today. This matching Arabic family contains a powerful array of features which was recently enhanced with a series of 100 practical Arabic and Western symbols for packaging, public areas, environment, transportation, computers, fabric care and urban life.
€399.00 complete family
Copyright © 2002, 2010
Designer: Panos Vassiliou /Hasan Abu Afash
DIN Text Arabic was designed in collaboration with designer Hasan Abu Afash in 8 weights/styles from Hairline to XBlack. It supports Latin as well as all variations of the Arabic script such as Persian, Urdu and Pashto.
Two versions were originally designed, DIN Text Arabic which is the basic Arabic version that includes Latin, whereas the second version DIN Text Universal supports simultaneously Latin, Arabic, Greek and Cyrillic. The latter version combines the powerful DIN Text Pro with DIN Text Arabic bringing the number of glyphs to a whopping 3320 per font.
It supports 30 advanced opentype features and kerning for all languages. Altogether DIN Text Universal supports hundreds of languages, proving to be an essential tool for corporations which are seeking to strengthen the presense of their products in international markets. DIN Text® Arabic has participated in several exhibitions worldwide and was featured in Arabesque 2, a book about contemporary Arabic art and design, published by Gestalten.
Pre-programmed to automatically replace Arabic glyphs with alternate forms which sit better next to neighbouring letters. This feature replaces medial Heh with an alternate form when glyphs such as medial Heh, final Ain, etc follow. Similarly, it replaces final Meem with an alternate form when glyphs such as initial Seen, Initial Sad, etc follow
Replaces isolated forms of all Arabic letters to their required initial forms.
This feature changes isolated forms of Arabic heh to another isolated form
Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph, creating a professional-looking text with no peculiar collisions among letters. It covers the standard f-ligatures, as well as few other ones used in normal conditions. This feature also covers Arabic Beh Reh, Beh Noon, Beh Yeh ligatures as well as some words required for the Arabic script.
This feature positions mark glyphs above and below base Arabic glyphs in accurate position.
This feature changes isolated forms of all Arabic letters correspodingly to their required medial forms.
Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph. This feature covers those Arabic ligatures which are required to be used in normal conditions. Such a ligature is LamAlif which is always formed when Lam is followed by Alif.
Superiors : Replaces lining and oldstyle figures with superior figures and lowercase letters with
superior letters. These superior glyphs are not computer generated scaled-down versions but are rather
redesigned to match the weight of the regular glyphs. Superior figures are used mainly for footnotes
and superior letters for abbreviated titles (this feature includes Latin as well as Greek superior
lowercase and capital letters).
Scientific inferiors : Replaces lining and oldstyle figures with inferior figures. They have been
designed to match the weight of the regular glyphs and sit lower than the standard baseline. Used
primarily for mathematical and chemical notations.
Ornaments/Various Symbols : This feature may replace the bullet or other characters with any of the available ornaments/symbols. All of them are best accessed from the program’s ‘Glyphs Palette’ when available. There is a total of 100 ornaments/symbols included for packaging, public areas, environment, transportation, computers, fabric care, urban life.
This feature changes isolated forms of all Arabic letters to their required final forms.
PES 2015
Client : Konami
Project : Video game
SCRIPTS
1252 Latin 1 , 1256 ArabicSUPPORTED LANGUAGES
Afrikaans, Alsatian, Basque, Bislama, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, Franco-Provencal, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Ladin, Latin, Luxembourgish, Malay, ManxGaelic, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Occitan, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Romansh, Sami (Inari), Sami (Lule), Sami (Skolt), Sami (Southern), ScottishGaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Walloon, Welsh, Arabic, Farsi (Persian), Pashto, UrduNAME
PF DIN Text ArabicFORMAT
OpenType PSPACKAGE
Family of 8 fonts (also available as separate weights)GLYPHS
2026 glyphs/font
PRO FEATURES
Small Caps, Standard Ligatures, Discretionary Ligatures, Required Ligatures, Oldstyle Figures, Lining Figures, Superiors (numerals/lowercase letters), Scientific Inferiors, Fractions, Ordinals, Stylistic Alternates, Numerators / denominators, Ornaments/various symbols, Mark Positioning, Mark to mark Positioning, Isolated Forms, Contextual Alternates, Initial Forms, Medial Forms, Terminal Forms, Glyph Composition/Decomposition.
PRICE
family: €399.00
single weight: €75.00