Designers
3AAAbdullah Aref
Abdullah Aref is an Egyptian art teacher, calligrapher, and Arabic type designer.
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KHKhaled Hosny
Khaled Hosny is an Egyptian type designer who specializes in Arabic type design, and a software developer whose areas of expertise include font engineering, text layout, localization, and internationalization. Khaled is also an amateur artist.
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HZHermann Zapf
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About
Aref Ruqaa is an Arabic typeface that aspires to capture the essence of the classical Ruqaa calligraphic style.
The Latin part is based on AMS Euler, but spaced for regular text rather than mathematics.
The Aref Ruqaa project is led by Khaled Hosny, a type designer based in Cairo, Egypt. To contribute, see github.com/alif-type/aref-ruqaa