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Andalus font family

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Overview

Andalus is an Arabic display font. Its design is a modern interpretation of Kairawani Kufic. This font is suitable for headlines, titles, posters, and any graphic design project where artistic flavor is desired.

  • This font has shipped with Windows since Windows 3.1 (Arabic edition) as a TrueType font.
  • Version 5.92 shipped with Windows 7, support for advance OpenType layout tables to improve marks positioning and other typographic enhancements were added.
  • Version 5.99 shipped with Windows 8, we added traditional phrase-ligatures and support for end-of-Ayat mark to make Andalus more user-friendly to native Arabic language users.
Description
File name Andlso.ttf
Styles & Weights Andalus
Copyright Copyright 1993 Glyph Systems, Limited Partnership. Portions © 2011 The Monotype Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Designers Mohammad Alagha, Mamoun Sakkal
Font vendor Glyph Systems, Monotype Corporation
Script Tags dlng:'Arab'
slng:'Arab', 'Latn'
Code pages 1252 Latin 1
1256 Arabic
Fixed pitch False

Licensing and redistribution info

  • Font redistribution FAQ for Windows
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Products that supply this font

Product name Font version
Windows 11 See the Windows 11 page.
Windows 10 See the Windows 10 page.
Windows 8.1 See the Windows 8.1 page.
Windows 8 See the Windows 8 page.
Windows 7 See the Windows 7 page.
Windows Vista 5.00
Windows XP 1.01
Windows 2000 1.01

Style & weight examples

Figure 1: Andalus is an Arabic display font based on Kairawani Kufic calligraphy.

  • Figure 1: Andalus is an Arabic display font based on Kairawani Kufic calligraphy.

Figure 2: Traditional phrase-ligatures added in version 5.99

  • Figure 2: Traditional phrase-ligatures added in version 5.99