Din Text Arabic
The Arabic version of Din Text Pro is one of Parachute’s most ambitious text typefaces, as for the first time a contemporary arabic equivalent to this comprehensive DIN series of fonts is designed. In fact, this set of fonts contains the most complete and powerful array of arabic features commercially available.
€795.00 complete family
Copyright ©2002, 2005, 2010
Designer: Panos Vassiliou /Hasan Abu Afash
Back in 1936 the German Standards committee Deutsches Institut Normung (DIN) proposed DIN 1451 as the standard type of lettering for road signage. As the original manual states ‘the purpose of this standard is to lay down a style of lettering which is timeless and easily legible’. This font has been revised by the committee over the years several times but only in two basic styles. The DIN Text series was based on the original standards but was completely redesigned to fit typographic requirements. Completed in 2002, it was first released in 2003 and published in our award-winning catalog, as a group of 4 separate families each with 12 weights for a total of 48 weights (regular weights, condensed, compressed and a special display version). The DIN Text Pro series which was released the following years, was enhanced with more weights, multilingual support for all European languages and opentype features in all different styles. It has lowercase ascenders that are higher than the capitals, varying letter proportions and italics (just like the first release) that are not a mechanically-obliqued version of the regular weights, but rather true designed italics. An attempt was made to divert from the stiff geometric structure of the original and introduce instead elements which are familiar, softer and easier to read. The glyphs for all languages have been carefully and professionally designed to not only share the same weight and structure but to reflect the current trends in all different scripts as well. The Arabic version is one of Parachute’s most ambitious text typefaces, as for the first time a contemporary arabic equivalent to this comprehensive DIN series of fonts is designed. In fact, this set of fonts contains the most complete and powerful array of arabic features commercially available.
Pre-programmed to automatically replace Arabic glyphs with alternate forms which sit better next to neighbouring letters. This feature replaces medial Heh with an alternate form when glyphs such as medial Heh, final Ain, etc follow. Similarly, it replaces final Meem with an alternate form when glyphs such as initial Seen, Initial Sad, etc follow
Replaces isolated forms of all Arabic letters to their required initial forms.
This feature changes isolated forms of Arabic heh to another isolated form
Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph, creating a professional-looking text with no peculiar collisions among letters. It covers the standard f-ligatures, as well as few other ones used in normal conditions. This feature also covers Arabic Beh Reh, Beh Noon, Beh Yeh ligatures as well as some words required for the Arabic script.
This feature positions mark glyphs above and below base Arabic glyphs in accurate position.
This feature changes isolated forms of all Arabic letters correspodingly to their required medial forms.
Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph. This feature covers those Arabic ligatures which are required to be used in normal conditions. Such a ligature is LamAlif which is always formed when Lam is followed by Alif.
Superiors : Replaces lining and oldstyle figures with superior figures and lowercase letters with
superior letters. These superior glyphs are not computer generated scaled-down versions but are rather
redesigned to match the weight of the regular glyphs. Superior figures are used mainly for footnotes
and superior letters for abbreviated titles (this feature includes Latin as well as Greek superior
lowercase and capital letters).
Scientific inferiors : Replaces lining and oldstyle figures with inferior figures. They have been
designed to match the weight of the regular glyphs and sit lower than the standard baseline. Used
primarily for mathematical and chemical notations.
This feature changes isolated forms of all Arabic letters to their required final forms.
SCRIPTS
1252 Latin 1 , 1256 ArabicSUPPORTED LANGUAGES
Afrikaans, Alsatian, Basque, Bislama, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, Franco-Provencal, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Ladin, Latin, Luxembourgish, Malay, ManxGaelic, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Occitan, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Romansh, Sami (Inari), Sami (Lule), Sami (Skolt), Sami (Southern), ScottishGaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Walloon, Welsh, Arabic, Farsi (Persian), Pashto, UrduNAME
PF DinText ArabicFORMAT
OpenType PSPACKAGE
Family of 8 fonts (also available as separate weights)GLYPHS
2026 glyphs/font
PRO FEATURES
Small Caps, Standard Ligatures, Discretionary Ligatures, Required Ligatures, Oldstyle Figures, Lining Figures, Superiors (numerals/lowercase letters), Scientific Inferiors, Fractions, Ordinals, Stylistic Alternates, Numerators / denominators, Ornaments/various symbols, Mark Positioning, Mark to mark Positioning, Isolated Forms, Contextual Alternates, Initial Forms, Medial Forms, Terminal Forms, Glyph Composition/Decomposition.
PRICE
family: €795.00
single weight: €125.00