One of the main concerns of Arabic-Persian Type and Graphic designers, is the lack of a comprehensive classification for Arabic-Persian typefaces. Since the spreading of printing press in the Arab world by the first half of the 20th century, Arabic-Persian typographers, and design scholars learning, working and communicating without classification system. This deficiency creates misinformation within graphic design practices, and education. The increased number of newly designed Arabic-Persian fonts which exceeded the one thousand, and the difficulties by the offered courses: Arabic-Persian font design, typography, and editorial design, increased the demand for a clear and user-friendly classification system.
This presentation is aiming to establish an agreeable classification based mainly on the form-language and the history of Arabic-Persian calligraphy can facilitate the communication between all parties involved with type and letterforms designers, typographers, type designers, calligraphers, printers, compositors, students, manufacturers, scholars, and engineers. At first, tones in Arabic-Persian calligraphy items will be examined in order to extract effective factors in tone creation. The types of literary tones are listed in order to gain sufficient knowledge of the types of tones. Finally, using the factors obtained from the background of calligraphy, a model will be presented to check and recognize the tone of Arabic-Persian fonts.
Letters Speak With Different Tones
