Maged™

Maged font enjoyed popularity as a dry-transfer typeface prior to being licensed from Letera Arabica by Linotype-Hell for font production. In consultation with the Linotype Design Studio (U.K.), the artwork was redrawn by Adrian Williams to render the typeface into a complete, unitized Arabic font with a full complement of traditional-style ligatures suitable for digitization. Maged, which has two weights, first appeared as a 202 font in 1987 before its conversion to PostScript some years later. Thus Linotype's Maged font can be described as a trend-setting modern Naskh design that retains a sense of the fluidity of Naskh calligraphy: the letters, when composed, appear as freshly-written text characterized by rich, inky horizontals, tapering swash strokes and contrasting delicate ascenders. The Bold exploits these features of the Light without excess, tempered by the need for clarity at smaller sizes. Maged font light and bold are eminently suited to text and titling in broader column work (brochures, magazines, advertising, coffee-table books etc.,) and are thus able to extend the range of the Linotype Arabic library in areas of work where the more compact text and titling fonts would create a too concentrated effect. Maged font contains four weights, Maged regular, Maged regular Latin Figures, Maged bold and Maged bold Latin Figures.

Maged is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.

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