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philippathefrog
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December 4, 2017
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Egyptian Arabic fonts - how do I download suitable font?

  • December 4, 2017
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i've bought CC english-arabic

it only includes standard arabic fonts i think

need version that is ok for egyptian arabic

thanks

    Correct answer mollybd

    Three Arabic fonts are offered by Typekit at this time: Browse fonts | Typekit ​

    If you are unsure whether the font wil support the Arabic characters you require, I recommend entering those characters in the type tester tool on one of the font family pages. If the character appears correctly there, it will be supported by the font.

    I hope this helps!

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    graphic_designer_oman
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    April 17, 2018

    What is Egyptian Arabic! i think if your version supports Arabic it will support all countries 

    Zaid Al Hilali
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    Zaid Al HilaliCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 5, 2017

    There is no such thing as Egyptian Arabic when it comes to typing Arabic. The three free Arabic fonts from Adobe which mollybd pointed out are suitable for any Arabic articles. If you want to purchase Arabic fonts that are different from the standard free fonts from Adobe, then you can check with Lynotype or Grapheast and many other vendors but rest assured the free Adobe fonts are good.

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      philippathefrogAuthor
      Participant
      December 12, 2017

      Hi all, thanks so much for your answers, sounds like I should try with

      adobe Arabic. I've been looking through my notes, one reason I was worried

      was for any specific letters that are written a bit different in

      Egypt/Sudan than some regions , like yā’ . I'd also heard a colleague

      was using an Arabic font on her computer that changed how some

      letters/spacing looked from her translation. I don't know letters/writing

      well enough to spot anything like that. so just wanted to make sure before

      I got going cutting and pasting in my text. thanks

      On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Zaid Al Hilali <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

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      December 12, 2017

      I've looked at this (a little: I'm interested in fonts but don't speak or write Arabic!)

      Consider in English we have lower case "a". This comes in lots of shapes and sizes but they change with the font installed; we just consider this style and not a different letter. But there are variations which change the meaning, or which people might consider plain wrong.

      In Arabic, there may be a wide variety of letter styles; spacing is likely to change with a different font. In Arabic we also have four different forms of every letter according to where it appears in a word. But we also do have some regional variations like the "ya" you mentioned. According to Wikipedia (which makes anyone an expert) ya takes the four forms

      ـيـيـيـي

      But according to Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia , in Egypt and Syria we may see different forms of the same letter, without dots for some of them and a different shape for others.

      ی‎ـی‎ـیـ‎یـ‎

      So far this matches what you mention. Note though that the last two are the same letter with a different style, like "a" mentioned above. But what does this mean for copy/paste? In fact, each of the different letters has a different Unicode value. ي is U+064A while ی is U+06CC. So if you copy/paste things are likely to be technically correct even if the appearance changes.

        mollybd
        mollybdCorrect answer
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        December 4, 2017

        Three Arabic fonts are offered by Typekit at this time: Browse fonts | Typekit ​

        If you are unsure whether the font wil support the Arabic characters you require, I recommend entering those characters in the type tester tool on one of the font family pages. If the character appears correctly there, it will be supported by the font.

        I hope this helps!

        amaarora
        amaarora
        Inspiring
        December 4, 2017

        Hi,

        You can also add fonts from Typekit and use them in your InDesign document.Add fonts to your desktop from Typekit

        What font are you looking for?

        Additionally you can install any locale version of InDesign by changing the below setting in the Creative Cloud Desktop app.

        -Aman

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