The design is very much influenced by the Rubutun Kano style, but was based on samples of footnotes from the market edition manuscripts. These were made with a monoline tool, likely a ball point pen or something similar. A type sample showing an inventory of some of the unusual of glyphs and features can be seen here: design type samples.

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This font supports the characters known to be used by languages written in this style of Arabic script, but may not have the characters needed for other languages. Read more about our character set support.