Maqroo, an Arabic word for “readable,” is also the name of the first-of-its-kind Arabic font for readers with dyslexia. “Arabic is a complicated writing system,” says Abdo Mohamed, founder ...

The main challenges for the Arabic font are: the complexity of word shapes, which can cause technical and legibility difficulties; curvy letters that can appear pixelated when in low resolution; ...

How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars. ... There are over 100,000 ways to format a word in English; the Arabic world only has about 100 clunky typefaces to support communication between half a ...

But now it has an exclusive attraction of a different kind — its own Microsoft office font, making it the first city in the world to get one. Office 365 users can find it in both Arabic and ...