![]() ![]() The beauty of Persian calligraphy lies in a complex system that developed over centuries, finally culminating in the Nasta’liq style. ![]() This example perfectly demonstrates the gap between traditional Persian handwriting and conventional Persian text typefaces. The word shapes are noisy, the negative spaces between and within letters are unbalanced, and the text has an inconsistent pattern. Typical layout of a Farsi book set with an early Arabic typeface from the 1970s. And these awkwardly adapted letters were directly transferred to digital typesetting systems as well, with the result that a whole nation had to adapt to a new type of writing system that was aesthetically inferior to and less readable than traditional handwriting. Mechanical typesetting systems had proved to be ill-suited to reproducing the graceful, historic shapes created by calligraphers, who had far more flexibility in drawing and combining letters. They seemed very noisy with their inelegant spacing and lack of even minimal kerning. When I was in elementary school I really didn’t like conventional Persian typefaces.
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