Simplified Arabic

Simplified Arabic (called Yakout since 1967) is a simplified Arabic font that allowed Arabic text to be composed using a Linotype machine. It was first announced in 1959 as Mrowa-Linotype Simplified Arabic. The font was developed by the founder of the Lebanese daily newspaper Al-Hayat Kamel Mrowa, its lettering artist Nabih Jaroudi, and Linotype & Machinery Ltd. staff under the guidance of Walter Tracy. It became the Arabic supplement for the typefaces Times New Roman and Arial, which were then included as TrueType fonts for the core fonts for the Web World Wide Web. The Simplified Arabic font reduced the number of characters necessary to compose Arabic, allowing it to fit into the Linotype machine's single 90-channel magazine. The font became one of the most widely used typefaces for composing Arabic newspapers.

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