Nazanin, originally named
Haghighi, is a modern Arabic text face first produced by Linotype in 1978. Its popular design was converted into OpenType format in 2005, taking full advantage of digital technology to allow accurate positioning of diacriticals and kerning refinements.
The counters and inter-character proportions of Nazanin are characteristic of Persian display lettering and typography. This is particularly true of Nazanin bold, which gives a strong image when used for display purposes. Nazanin possesses fuller, deeper characters than is normally exhibited in Arabic typography: its angled counters contributing to fluid, well-balanced, yet vibrant, letterforms. Originally designed for Farsi typesetting, Nazanin has now become popular for Arabic typesetting as well.
Nazanin is available in two OpenType weights:
Nazanin Light and
Nazanin Bold. Both of the fonts include Latin glyphs (from
Palatino Roman and
Palatino Bold, respectively) inside the font files, allowing a single font to set text in both most Western European and Arabic languages.
Nazanin incorporate the Basic Latin character set (Western CP 1252 Latin 1/ANSI and Macintosh US Roman) and the Arabic character set (CP 1256), which supports Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. They include tabular and proportional Arabic, Persian, and Urdu numerals, as well as a set of tabular European (Latin) numerals.
Keywords: Nazanin Light, anno 1970, OpenType, modern arabic, arabic text, Arabian, Urdu, Farsi
SKU: 36843089
Product ID: 34747
