Simplified Arabic

In 1954, Kamel Mrowa contacted the British company Linotype & Machinery Ltd. (L&M), formed by the merger of the Linotype Company Limited (registered in 1889) and the Machinery Trust Limited (registered in 1893), with the idea of developing a new, simplified Arabic typeface. Hrant Gabeyah suggested the name Yakout, after the 13th century calligrapher Yaqut al-Musta'simi. It was one of the first Arabic fonts to be converted to the PostScript file format. In the 1970s and 80s, Compugraphic plagiarized Simplified Arabic as well as Traditional Arabic; they had both become ubiquitous. When the Belgian Agfa-Gevaert Corporation came to control Compugraphics, it licensed the font it plagiarized to Microsoft for use in Microsoft Windows. Simplified Arabic, in barely modified forms, was then used as the Arabic complement for both Times New Roman and Arial, which were then included as TrueType fonts for the core fonts for the Web World Wide Web. == See also ==