- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:09:06 -0700
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 14/05/13 6:07 AM, fantasai wrote: > Though I'm not sure I agree that DecoType Naskh would be 'serif' > rather than 'cursive'--it is very calligraphic, more like Zapfino > than Times Roman. DecoType's Naskh is an implementation of the standard Arabic formal book hand, so it is by far the most obvious example of something that corresponds to 'serif' in Latin type categorisation and conventional usage. It is important to consider the rôles of different script styles within text cultures, rather than extrapolating from an outsider perception of the visual characteristics of a style. While the naskh style might look to us more like Zapfino than it does like Times Roman, for hundreds of years it performed the same rôle in Arabic text culture as formal roman styles in European text culture. JH
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