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"Gary Electro" sign
"Gary Electro" bilingual sign ( Lebanon, 2017 )
bilingual shop signs kashida
Collection : typefaces & calligraphy

In Mar Mikheal, Beirut, this bilingual sign was found. In Arabic script, the connecting lines between letters as well as many letters themselves can be stretched (tamdid or tatwil in Arabic). This principle of "kashida" allows for an easy alignment of the two scripts in this example

  • Uploaded by : Alina Kokoschka| © Alina Kokoschka
  • License :Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
  • Date :14/09/2017
  • Link :http://hawass.org/image/563