Digital Khatt and Visual Metafont

John Butler

And now for something completely different.

“DigitalKhatt is an Arabic typesetter based on a Metafont-designed parametric font that can generate a glyph with a given width during layout and justification while respecting the curvilinear nature of Arabic letters.”

Visual Metafont is “a graphical tool developed to allow the design of the Metafont-based dynamic font used in the DigitalKhatt typesetter.”

AzizMostafa AzizAli

Thanks for sharing!

What's eye-catching in your post are the words "Now" and "Something completely different".
It seems that you missed what I had posted earlier!

Respecting the curvilinear nature of Arabic letters, http://Maryamsoft.com/Hoda/ did precede that by developing unique and dynamic Arabic fonts (Attached Pdf).

https://typedrawers.com/discussion/3631/flying-high-quranic-arabic-jawi-pegon-gundul-fonts

All the Best with Flowers

John Butler

Apologies, I don’t actually read Arabic. What I found interesting about DigitalKhatt was the fact that employs a relatively new tool (Visual Metafont) that nonetheless uses venarable Metafont technology—at least in the source stage—to output OpenType variable fonts to be used for justification. The quote I chose was simply a reference to the old Monty Python television shows. “Completely different” was in reference to the Bezier-oriented world that most TypeDrawers members work in.