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For comparison, I just pulled up http://arabic.cnn.com/ http://arabic.cnn.com/ The headlines are a bit stylized and difficult to read as I'm not familiar with
by LanceH 11y ago
For comparison, I just pulled up http://arabic.cnn.com/ http://arabic.cnn.com/
The headlines are a bit stylized and difficult to read as I'm not familiar with the font. Getting accustomed to a font is either more difficult in Arabic, or there are greater extremes in fonts -- I've never figured out which. Certainly I have to learn a new style of writing every time I read a hand written letter.
Most of the text on cnn's site is easier to read but feels mechanical compared to the harir font which feels like a significant improvement.
Harir is very easy to read, with few peculiarities. I don't claim to know fonts or which is better/worse, but I would say Harir is very good, at least for my sample size of one. You would have to ask a native speaker who might be more comfortable with script than type their opinion.
- gotchange 11y agoI don't like the Arabic font used on CNN either. I don't know why they used such an inelegant font for everything on their website, it looks very ridiculous and unfriendly to the eyes. I have better examples that you might find interesting: - http://www.madamasr.com http://www.madamasr.com $$ Give it some time for the webfont to load $$ - http://www.dw.com/ar/ http://www.dw.com/ar/ - http://www.bbc.com/persian http://www.bbc.com/persian
- vowelless 11y agoI am not a fan of the cnn font but I don't see Harir as a major improvement (it's too thick). The BBC and dw fonts look the most natural to me. Al Jazeera (http://www.aljazeera.net/portal http://www.aljazeera.net/portal) is also very readable.
- jacobolus 11y agoAll the examples of the Harir typeface from this post are the bold and bold caption fonts. Do you also think the regular and display regular fonts are too thick? https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/harir/regular/sample/arabic/12?s=webfonts https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/harir/regular/sample/arabic... https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/harir/display_regular/sample/arabic/36?s=webfonts https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/harir/display_regular/sampl...
- 1ris 11y agoI wonder, how does the logo work? Does the original, latin "CNN" logo mean anything in the arabic logo? Or is it arabic and latin smashed together?
- LanceH 11y agoReading it right to left you might pronounce it "bilarabia" which means "in arabic". Even though I can't recall any at the moment, I know I've seen numerous logos with dual meanings like that.