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Arapix

Arapix

by Sylvain Mazas
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Arapix Font Family was designed by Sylvain Mazas and published by Sylvain Mazas. Arapix contains 1 styles.

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About Arapix Font Family


Arapix is a 12 pixel high multilingual Latin-Arabic pixel font with incredible capabilities.

The Arapix is an almost traditional Naskh. It is elegant and easy to read even in very small sizes. It includes almost every feature you would expect from a high range Naskh font. Its humanistic look and feel fit perfectly to its Latin counterpart.

Arapix was originally designed for a web project that didn't see the light a few years back.

It started with the idea of fitting both Latin and Arabic into a 12 pixel vertical grid. The latin glyphs fit properly within the vertical limits, but when it came to the arabic glyphs, it proved to be more challenging. Arabic letters with lower diacritic dots like the (Yeh-fina) or letters with accents above like the (Alef-Hamza-above) need much more space than any Latin letter. Add to this the fact that accents needs to be positioned above and below the glyphs. It is technically impossible to fit a (Yeh-fina-kasratan) or a (Alef-Hamza-above-shadda-damma) into 12 pixels. Initially the accents were dropped and not included in the design. Although it seemed impossible at the start, Sylvain found a solution in the end, including as many contextual alternates and contextual kerning as needed to avoid every collision between letters and diacritics, letters and accents, and diacritics and accents. The contextual kerning was added to achieve an even letter and word spacing in longer text.

Arapix is amazingly legible in small size on screen and in print. On the other hand, it also works perfectly as display titling font due to its unique and contemporary pixel approach. It can be used for screens with very low resolution as well as for high resolution screens and prints.

Arapix comes with various new features and new glyphs including Persian and Urdu letters, stylistic set, old style figures, contextual kerning, contextual alternates and a few icons too.

Enjoy the new Arapix and have fun with it.

Designers: Sylvain Mazas

Publisher: Sylvain Mazas

Foundry: Sylvain Mazas

Design Owner: Sylvain Mazas

MyFonts debut: Nov 19, 2024

Arapix

About Sylvain Mazas

Hello, my name is Sylvain Mazas. I am an illustrator, animator, author, and type designer specializing in non-fiction illustration and infographics. Based in Berlin, my independent foundry has been crafting typefaces since 2013, focusing on Arabic and Latin scripts with a passion for comic fonts. While most are created for in-house projects, some are refined and shared with the world.

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