Historical Background Old South Arabian Script (OSA) was used before the Islamic era not only in the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula, but actually in the entire Peninsula. In addition, samples of OSA have been found as far as Uruk in Mesopotamia, Delos in Greece, and Giza in Egypt. Archaeological finds show that as far back as the 8th century BCE, OSA was used in trade, religious writing, and in civil records. Following the spread of Islam in Yemen, the decline of OSA began in the 7th century CE as it was gradually supplanted by Arabic script. OSA was typically known by the name of the then-dominant peoples in the Southern Peninsula. At various times, it was known as Sabaean, Qatabani, or Hadramite, among others. Although it was used for a variety of languages, OSA is most strongly associated with Sabaean. Many Peninsular languages borrowed OSA before introducing further changes of their own. Prime examples are the Thamudic, Safaitic, and Lihyanite scripts which eventually developed into independent scripts. The westward migration of the Sabaean people into the Horn of Africa introduced the South Arabian consonantal alphabet into the region. The transplanted script formed the roots of the Geez script of Ethiopia, which, in time and under presumably external influences, developed into a rich syllabary unlike any other Semitic script in history. Even a cursory examination of the letter forms of Modern Ethiopic writing reveal a striking similarity to South Arabian Script. OSA inscriptions typically reveal a dominant right-to-left directionality, although there are also many cases of alternating directions, known as boustrophedon writing. Figure 1 is a fine example of this style of writing. OSA inscriptions were discovered early in the 19th century. Soon thereafter, two orientalists, Gesenius and Rödiger, made great strides towards deciphering the script. Styles of Writing Old South Arabian inscriptions have survived primarily on stone, ceramic, and metallic surfaces. Hundreds of artifacts have been found and, to this day, continue to be discovered. Some of the best examples number of inscriptions on softer materials, such as wood and leather, have also been discovered. Although there is a significant difference between the styles of letters on the hard surfaces and those on the soft. Old South Arabian (Musnad) is composed of 29 letters , that is one letter more than the Arabic alphabet, which is between “S” and “Sh”, and names “Samekh”. Aspects of difference between Musnad and the present Arabic writing is that Musnad is written in separate letters, and the shape of the letters do not change according to its place in the word. However, some letters change according to the beginning of the writing. Musnad is either prominent, or deep. Prominent writings are for important writings and deep writings are for ordinary. The material on which the Musnad was written were stones, rocks, wood, and metal. In the course of its development the Musnad use appeared in the “Lehyanite’, “Thamudic”, “Safaitic”, pen to which many changes and amendments were made. And from it “Habashi’ writing was born. As regards his place among the Arabs of the Peninsula , when we look at the internet and its role in cultural dialogue , the Arabs of the Peninsula considered Musnad inscription which was indisputably their national writing until the dawn of Islam. It was used by people in all parts of Arabia in their homeland and abroad . It was their means of chronology and record of their glories and history.2- Features of Musnad Script: 1. It is written from right to left and vice versa. 2. Its letters are not joined. 3. Shape of letters are uniform despite their positions in the word. 4. Words are separated by vertical lines. 5. A letter is doubled in case of assertion. 6. No points and punctuations. 7. Easy to be learned by beginners. My OSA Musnad Font My design and technical work is only a treatment of the OSA Musnad as a symbol of writing. And it is possible to use in computer.. My design is not aimed at demonstrating the linguistic and intellectual structure of the Old South Arabian (Musnad). It is so simple that it could be easy to learn by learners and those who are interested in the OSA Musnad letters in computer. The basis of such importance is that it spares a lot of time and effort for researchers and students in this field. Formerly they used to write the Musnad texts either by handwriting or scan them , But now they can easily write its texts in OSA Musnad by using keyboard directly, so that they can change , amend and fulfill easily and accurately . So, we made use of speed, easiness and accuracy. And anyone interested in the South Arabian history in any part of the world can due to this design read and write OSA Musnad letters most easily. This design will also be used by historians and archeologists. , as well as specialist linguistics . The design also demonstrates the aesthetics of the Himyarit writing. About this font family Old South Arabian is An Arabic, Old South Arabian and Latin typeface for desktop applications ,for websites, and for digital ads. Old South Arabian font family contains two types: Old South Arabian and Old South Arabian serif. The font includes a design that supports Arabic, Old South Arabian and Latin languages. Old South Arabian typeface comes with many opentype features.

Barwastu, a refined serif typeface, epitomizes timeless elegance with its meticulous design and sophisticated aesthetic. The graceful curves and distinctive serifs of Barwastu convey a sense of tradition and authority, making it an ideal choice for projects that demand a touch of class and professionalism. The well-balanced letterforms and subtle variations in stroke width contribute to its readability and versatility across various applications, from editorial layouts to branding. Barwastu seamlessly blends a classic sensibility with a contemporary edge, ensuring that it stands out as a distinguished and tasteful typeface in the realm of typography.

Introducing Rhomer Serif Font This beautiful font will engage your audience and make your promotions and projects stand out. This font is designed with a bada curve in the middle so it looks really cool and brings your brand to life and add a touch of modernity and style with the Rhomer Serif Font. Use it for titles, logos, business cards, printed quotes, all kinds of invitations, cards, packaging and branding of your website or social media. Our font always includes Multilingual option to make your branding globally recognized.

Plastilin type family of two weights obtained its name due to the soft, curved, stroke terminals of characters (J, K, L, R and others) and the little pointed serifs, as if extruded from stroke plastic mass. The character set has a lot of additional Latin and Cyrillic ligatures, as well as several alternate letter forms. Plastilin was designed for ParaType by Oleg Karpinsky in 2005. It is for use both in display setting and short text passages. In 2008 the author added two weights (Light and Black) and improved letterforms of some characters.

Carelia is a modern multilingual (including cyrillic) serif family with classic forms, enhanced by extended OpenType features. It is well suited for all sorts of design - starting from web, to editorial and branding. Its stylistic alternates, swashes and ligatures (more 1200 glyphs in each font) will make your design even more stylized and unique. Carelia comes in two styles Upright and Italic - each has it's own character but both share the same curves and style. Both fonts are fully unicode mapped - can be used in any application of your choice.

This elegant typeface was suggested to me by type critic Daniel Will-Harris. Jensen Arabique is based on a set of capital letters drawn by Gustav Jensen that included the word "ARABIQUE" at the top of the first page, therefore the name. Daniel Will-Harris has this to say about Jensen Arabique: "I found an example of this unexecuted Gustav Jensen typeface in a type sample book from 1933, and Jason Castle lovingly digitized it with all its rare and unusual curves intact." Uppercase with alternates, numerals and some punctuation.

Introduce Battiest is our latest modern handwriting script font which has strong characteristics in its curves so that it makes it more beautiful and elegant in its use and also has its own charm when viewed This font is designed with a natural touch of handwriting which is refined to create a portion and composition that suits your needs. So this font is suitable for craft, children's writing, adventure posters, food banner titles, wedding invitations, product packaging logos, quotes, social media page covers, furniture banner headlines, book covers, and much more.

The initial characters in China Market were created in 1996 for a logo featuring the Temple of Heaven in Beijing where emperors from the Ming and Qing dynasties worshiped heaven and prayed for abundant harvests. The font was completed in 2010. It is composed of a regularly positioned curved and straight components as if part of a decorative grillwork or other architectural detail. While its influences and origins are clear, its appearance is relies more upon the geometry of its basic elements and the modular structure than a specific stylistic idiom.

QuickType is a typeface I designed for demonstration purposes. I used it to illustrate my first book about type design. It has crooked slab serifs and looks very much like a typewriter font. But in order to make things clear I had to overdo some curves and so QuickType turned out a very distinct typewriter typeface. Since those days I worked on the shapes from time to time, so it got better and I extended it to include several neccessary cuts. Now it is a full fledged very usable font. Yours very quick Gert Wiescher.

Nadimo is an elegant, charming, and sensual sans serif font. Designed with subtle curves and flexible shapes to create a beautiful typeface that fits all your projects. Whether you’re looking for a typeface for a logo, t-shirt, poster, or even a large typography installation, Nadimo is here to help. Of course, your various design projects will be perfect and extraordinary if you use this font because this font comes with a font family, both for titles and subtitles and sentence text, start using our fonts for your extraordinary projects.

Ring Netlike - Classic Serif Font Ring Netlike is a classic serif typeface called weiss roman. A unique modern font that is a mix of old and new. The Elegant curves also make for a unique logo or masthead. Ring Netlike comes with multilingual support also. The combination with the width of each letter forms a modern feel and is suitable for various magazines, logos, branding, photography, invitations, wedding invitations, quotes, blog headers, posters, advertisements, postcards, books, websites, etc. Files Includes: - Uppercase & Lowercase - Numerals & Punctuation - Multilingual - Ligature - Alternative Fridaytype

Rantika is a cute brush font, created with additional bold on the strokes and mostly curved edges of the letterforms. This font comes from the manual brush stroke which has an informal stroke thickness that makes the font looks more natural. Bring the happiness with Rantika, make your design more cheerful because you can use this font for cards, apparel, merchandise, invitation, food or menu design, poster, cute quote, holiday design, and many more! Fonts featured : Uppercase Lowercase Numbers Punctuation Accented characters Stylistic set Ligatures Thank you for watching

Aront is a font with a modern and simple style. Having round and triangular geometric shapes adds a simple and stable impression to this font, plus a slight curve at each corner so that this font doesn't look stiff. The Aront font is perfect for logos, branding, film titles, games, and other techno-themed projects. Not only limited to techno themes, this font is also suitable for use in other themes that seem clean and simple. Aront font has multilingual support, alternate, and several ligatures as a plus.

Zosimo is a neo-grotesque typeface created by designer Ron Gilad (Delicious Type) in cooperation with renowned typographer Oded Ezer based on his ubiquitous Alchemist typeface. Carefully drawn curves, robust shapes and a range of OpenType features make Zosimo a great choice for designing logotypes, signage, titling, texts and more. Zosimo now comes in three families: Standard (full Latin support), Cyrillic (basic Latin and Cyrillic) and Pro (all included). Totalling in 9 weights, roman and italic, Zosimo can accommodate all your type-related design needs in one big happy family.

Introduces our newest "Newest" modern handwriting script font which has characteristic beautiful curves on each letter. This beautiful font is designed with attention to harmony in beauty when you use it in your designs This font is designed with a natural touch of handwriting which is refined to create a portion and composition that suits your needs. So this font is suitable for craft, children's writing, adventure posters, food banner titles, wedding invitations, product packaging logos, quotes, social media page covers, furniture banner headlines, book covers, and much more.

Introducing - Roxale Story. a new fresh & modern serif with smooth curves. It comes with elegant style, classy, and contrasts, with features and consist of regular, italic and calligraphy italic. Roxale Story is perfect for luxury logo and branding, classy editorial design, woman magazine, cosmetic brand, fashion promotional, art gallery branding, museum, historical of architectural, boutique branding, stationery design, blog design, modern advertising design, card invitation, art quote, home decor, book/cover title, special events and any more. Features : · All Uppercase and Lowercase · Number & Symbol · Supported Languages · Alternates and Ligatures · PUA Encoded

NCS Rogueland is Modern extended sans serif font that is out of this world. A strong balance between pointed corners and smooth curves with luxurious styles. Perfect for all purposes but especially for headlines. With 10 Variant to choose : NCS Rogueland Light NCS Rogueland Light Italic NCS Rogueland Light Rounded NCS Rogueland Regular NCS Rogueland Italic NCS Rogueland Rounded NCS Rogueland Outline NCS Rogueland Bold NCS Rogueland Bold Italic NCS Rogueland Bold Rounded Include uppercase, lowecase, numeral and punctuation. This font also includes alternative glyphs, ligatures and multilingual support.

Space Mode is a multi-weighted typeface, sent back in time from the distant future. Forward-looking typeface designers often predict a reductive future where Latin letterforms have become increasingly modularized and simplified, or random bits have mysteriously gone missing. Thankfully, this is not the case, and typography has instead flourished and evolved. New forms have appeared, and some revived from historical references. A more complex drawing model has arisen that seems to add new curves in a effort to tame the strange diagonals that appear in the final quarter of the alphabet.

Freya is a strong font family and sophisticated sans serif. His firm and uncompromising style are felt through letters that are controlled with a modern touch. Hardline balance and smooth curves. Each font in the family can stand alone, dynamic, and authoritative as they wish. It offers extensive language support, ALL Central & Western European Languages, Vietnamese and African languages. Freya works very well in all brands, logos, magazines, films. Different weights give you a full range to explore a number of applications, while the fonts described giving a real modern feel to any project.

Velour is an elegant display typeface, with thin, bracketed serifs. The typeface’s main features are the curved crossbar on ‘A’ and ‘H’, the long, sophisticated legs of ‘K’ and ‘R’ including an alternative ‘k’ automatically substituted in appropriate places, providing a consistent flow of text and a romantic feel. The typeface comes with a beautiful set of both standard and old-style numerals, two different ampersands and alternates with less complicated letterforms. Velour is available in 6 weights, from Thin to Bold, and supports Western, Central and South Eastern European languages.

This handwritten script has been attentively written, with gentle curves to produce a font thats completely distinctive and original. Perfect for adding a elegant and unique touch to your lettering projects and branding Also with their help, you can create a Wedding lettering or beautiful frame for your home. Or just use for your small business, book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines and more. --- TTF & OTF versions are available. A lot of Swashes Multilingual Support I hope you have oodles of fun using Janges script! Dmitriy --- Check out my blog: instagram.com/media.lab.co pinterest.com/dmitriychirkov7

Argithea Is An Modern Stylish Font Inspired By Bold Modern Stylish Serif and Vintage Curves. SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS : Fonts and alternate : No special software required they may be used in any basic program /website apps that allows standard fonts That's it folks! You can go ahead and get cracking :) Follow My Shop For Upcoming Updates Including Additional Glyphs And Language Support. And Please Message Me If You Want Your Language Included or If There Are Any Features or Glyph Requests, Feel Free to Send me A Message. Have a Good Day !

Introducing Barlock a strong display font, inspired by sports design and old school typography. Carefully designed with the curve-less of the letterform but not cubistic, and has a bold weight that suitable for an elegant-strong design. Barlock is an all-caps font equipped with a bunch of alternates characters that you can mix and match to your design concept. A perfect choice for logo, posters, apparel, labels, jersey, headline, quotes, books, packaging, and many more! Fonts featured : Uppercase Smallcaps Numbers Symbols & punctuation Multilingual PUA Encoded Stylistic set 01-03

Introducing Alessandra, a stunning script font inspired by the elegance of Victorian style. With its graceful curves and intricate details, Alessandra exudes a timeless beauty that captivates the senses. This font is adorned with exquisite ending and beginning swashes, adding a touch of refinement and sophistication to every letter. Perfectly suited for various design needs, Alessandra shines brightest on wedding invitations, greeting cards, and any project that calls for a touch of romance and charm. Let Alessandra elevate your designs with its enchanting allure, bringing a sense of elegance and grace to your creative endeavors.

Introducing Jocker Block! Jocker Block is natural and strong hand-drawn brush font that combines attractive curves with a fresh urban edge; delivering a stylish brush font that is guaranteed to add an eye-catching appeal to your logo designs, brand imagery, handwritten quotes, product packaging, merchandise, social media post, or website font. Features: All Caps Font Support for MAC or PC PUA Encoded Versatile for branding, headline, or printing product Detailed dry brush markers I hope you enjoy this font. If you have questions, don't hesitate to give me a message :) Thank You!

Hakim Ghazali, designed by Hakim Ghazali in 2005, is an Arabic typeface in the style of Maghribi and a winner in Linotype’s first Arabic Typeface Design Competition. This style, which originated in western North Africa, is characterized by a strong baseline and long, fluid, and curvaceous curves. It can be used in headlines or in text and gives a very fresh and calligraphic look. The font includes a matching Latin design and support for Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. It also includes proportional and tabular numerals for the supported languages.

Bughia is an elegant and bold serif font. Fall in love with its incredibly versatile style and use it to create gorgeous wedding invitations, beautiful stationary art, eye-catching social media posts, and much more! Bughia is an upper and lowercase serif font with balanced curves. This font is inspired by writing from the good old days, but still has a strong modern look. A variety of stylistic alternatives that allow for versatile design options and work perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirts, postcards, and more.

Nayuki is a unique new serif display font. The Nayuki font provides a unique collection of glyphs that are bold and curved but they also have a strong geometric outline. This font will bring you an amazing new visual experience. You can use this font in retro, vintage and modern designs. This font also has alternate and ligature features which are perfect for completing various projects such as logos, brands, products, labels, websites, posters, and many more. The font includes uppercase, lowercase, numbers, symbols, alternates, ligatures and multilingual support.

Introducing Astogria Bejha! Astogria Bejha is modern hand-drawn brush font that combines attractive curves with a fresh urban edge; delivering a stylish brush font that is guaranteed to add an eye-catching appeal to your logo designs, brand imagery, handwritten quotes, product packaging, merchandise, social media post, or website font. Features: Uppercase and Lowercase Number and Punctuation Ligature Stylistic Alternate Swash Versatile for branding, headline, or printing product Detailed dry brush markers I hope you enjoy this font. If you have questions, don't hesitate to give me a message Thank You!

Azqad is an elegant Arabic-style font that combines traditional elements with a touch of modernity, with its graceful curves and intricate details. An Original typeface that suitable for any graphic designs such as branding materials, t-shirt, print, business cards, logo, poster, t-shirt, photography, quotes .etc This font support for some multilingual. Modern Sweet Retro that contains uppercase A-Z and lowercase a-z, alternate character, numbers 0-9, and some punctuation. If you need help, just write me! Thanks so much for checking out my shop!

This modern calligraphy script has been attentively written, with gentle curves to produce a font thats completely distinctive and original. It contains a full set of lower & uppercase letters, a large range of punctuation, numerals, and multilingual support. Perfect for adding a elegant and unique touch to your lettering projects and branding Also with their help, you can create a Wedding lettering or beautiful frame for your home. Or just use for your small business, book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines and more. Check out my blog: instagram.com/media.lab.co pinterest.com/dmitriychirkov7

Respect! Our tribute to hand lettering culture. This exuberant new script font family draws inspiration from the traditional craftsmanship of sign painting and brush pen calligraphy techniques. Our aim was to create a modern interpretation of brush script, which referenced old-school hand lettering but also adds some contemporary forms, terminations and swashes you might expect to find in street art. The slanted angles and curved steams are designed to give this font an active energy, plenty of attitude and a courageous/brave character. We recommend to combine Timberline with: Turquoise

INTRODUCING Mostera is a fun unique display serif font. This font looks sturdy and fun with a retro touch and curves giving it a playful personality. Mostera is a versatile display serif that works in both large and small sizes. This font is suitable for a wide variety of projects such as: headlines, logos, labels, branding projects, weddings, magazines, product packaging, mugs, quotes, posters, and more. Have fun using Mostera!!! I really hope you enjoy it! Feel free to follow, like and share. Thank you so much for checking out my shop!

Engrave is a vintage-style scrips font. This font is an elegant font, and has a luxurious impression with sweet curves on the alternate letters. "Engrave" is perfect for branding luxury fashion products, jewelry, and is also great for use as a lettering in logos and mockups. The use of this font is also not limited to that, but can also be used for writing book covers, movies, posters, taglines, etc. "Engrave" also has ligatures and alternatives that give each lowercase style a choice of styles and add a luxurious feel to this font.

Originally Mamontov has been inspired by poster (usually wooden) types of the end of 19th—the beginning of 20th centuries. The type family was named after Savva Ivanovich Mamontov (1841-1918), Russian industrialist and patron of the arts. Massive asymmetric serifs, stocky proportions, type weight... are traces of harsh imperial reality. And soft forms of ovals, exaggerated compensators, humanistic curves of serifs and horizontal strokes betray the sensitivity and artistry of Savva Ivanovich. Mamontov has 25 styles, ranging from Light to Black and from Condensed to Wide, with more than 1000 characters per font.

Filk is a super bold, all-lowercase script font with gorgeous curves and thick downstrokes. Filk is perfect for branding and editorial projects and dreams of being used on billboards, in magazines, and in movie titles. Filk includes approximately 540 glyphs, including 39 standard and discretionary ligatures. OpenType features include a a stylistic set, a bunch of character variants, initial and final forms for letters that need them, and multilingual support (including multiple currency symbols). The OpenType features can be very easily accessed by using OpenType-savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign.

Deposta handwriting fonts are a charming collection of typefaces that encapsulate the authenticity and organic flow of handwritten script. Each font within the Deposta family is carefully crafted to evoke a sense of elegance, yet maintain a casual and natural appearance. With varying styles and weights, these fonts exhibit fluid strokes, graceful curves, and nuanced detailing, capturing the essence of handwritten text while offering versatility for diverse design projects. Whether used for invitations, branding, or creative endeavors, Deposta handwriting fonts bring a delightful touch of personal expression and sophistication to any typographic composition.

With its solid slab form, mixed with subtle curved terminals, Arbour is a unique font with the versatility to work in many different scenarios, from branding to digital applications. It comes in 7 weights, from a delicate extra-light to a solid, strong black, with matching italics for each upright. Arbour may have a serious look to it but it also has a playful side. The light weights are great for calling out text and the heavy weights are perfect for that new brand you are working on.

Not the usual bold serif, this is a bold serif that is unique, attractive and worth trying to apply to various backgrounds of your work, whether in branding, posters, logos, quotes, films, packaging and others. This serif has a magical curved shape that can be seen when you look at it, guaranteed to attract attention. Mugi Uppercase Lowercase 75+ Language So what are you waiting for? immediately purchase this font, feel free to comment, or send me my PM or email at khoirtypework@gmail.com Thank you for seeing

Kondolarge is a slab serif typeface developed from our successful Kondolar in 2011. Based on a simple skeleton, straight sides, gently curved horizontals and sturdy serifs, Kondolarge is a bit more geometric than the prior. It is suitable for both text and display. With a well-built character set including small caps and several numeral styles. The font comes in 9 styles, ranging from a delicate Thin to Black, with matching italics, resulting in a total of 18 weights. Kondolarge contains a set of 800 characters that support over 200 Latin-based languages.