Arabic Script

The world’s second-most-used script, cursive by design, writing consonants and letting vowels breathe.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Each letter takes different shapes depending on its position in the word — isolation, initial, medial, final.
• As an abjad it records consonants; short vowels appear only as optional diacritics.
• Adapted far beyond Arabic, it has written Persian, Urdu, Ottoman Turkish, and once Swahili and Malay.

Specifications & Metrics

• TYPE: Abjad (cursive)