Before working with the provided fonts, it's important to understand the alphabet of their underlying writing system.

In the Simple Alphabet figure, you can see that the lowercase letters have not changed much, while the uppercase letters have changed dramatically. The uppercase letters, whose parts were below the baseline (almost all of them), have been rotated and moved above the baseline. In rotated letters, two properties remain untouched: the conjoined point (bottom right) and the placement of the dots. For example, in the letters Peh "پ" and Jeem "ج", the dots remain at the bottom, whereas for the letters Theh "ث" and Khah "خ", the dots stay on the top. In the Reduced Dots alphabet, letters with more than one dot have changed, and their dots become a part of that letter in the form of an added line or a semicircle.

Each font family (e.g., Rain Again) includes a list of 10 fonts. The first two fonts in the list feature joining letters in their design, while the rest have disjoint letters.

• LP (Less Points) class fonts have an alphabet with reduced dots.

• SC (Small Caps) class fonts have an alphabet with lowercase letters that are identical to capital letters but smaller.

• AC (All Caps) class fonts have an all-capital alphabet.

• MC (Mixed Case) class fonts, the typist determines which letter in a word is in lowercase or uppercase form (same as Latin fonts).

In all fonts, except for the MC class, the last letter of every word automatically becomes capitalized.

MC class fonts

This class of fonts is designed to emulate Latin fonts, allowing the typist to specify which letters in a word should be in lower case and which should be in upper case. A key feature in this font class is the software Caps Lock, which toggles between these states. The Caps Lock function changes from deactivated to activated by entering the Tatweel letter (Shift + J)*, and reversely, it returns to deactivated state. By default, each word begins with the software Caps Lock in the deactivated state, resulting in the first letter being lower case. Once the Tatweel letter is entered, the software Caps Lock activates, causing subsequent letters to be displayed in upper case. At the end of each word, the software Caps Lock automatically deactivates. To visually indicate the state change of the Caps Lock, a dotted circle symbol appears in place of it. The next typed letter will eliminate this dotted circle, and the entered letter is displayed in lower or upper case based on the Caps Lock status. If the software Caps Lock is misused, persistent dotted circles will indicate inappropriate activation or deactivation. 

The fonts presented on this website are not standard Perso-Arabic fonts. They have been specifically designed based on a proposed writing system, artin** aimed at addressing the current issues in the existing writing system.

* layout of standard Arabic and Persian keyboard                                  **artin: arabic latin