The Adobe Arabic Shin font, designed by Adobe in collaboration with Shahin Sabbaghi, stands out with its bold and wide appearance, featuring flowing terminals that add a touch of elegance. Released in 2018, it offers 329 characters and 528 glyphs, ensuring comprehensive language support for Arabic, Latin, and symbols. With a bold font weight and medium width, it strikes a balance between readability and visual impact. Its Unicode blocks cover Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Arabic, General Punctuation, Mathematical Operators, Geometric Shapes, Arabic Presentation Forms-A, and Arabic Presentation Forms-B, ensuring compatibility with various text encoding standards. It is available in two different styles, having subtle differences in their appearance. These styles are:
- Adobe Arabic SHIN Stout Bold
- Adobe Arabic SHIN Typo Bold
These fonts draw inspiration from the traditional Arabic calligraphy script Ruqqa and Naskh with modern design elements, making it look more appealing. SHIN Trout bold is more condensed with filled zero spaces, suggesting it’s strictly a Ruqaa font. Meanwhile, SHIN Typo Bold is a Naskh font with an easy-to-understand appearance. Arabic font with a soft and flowing appearance, characterized by wide sharp edges, offers a dynamic and captivating visual presence. Its letters boast varying thicknesses throughout the letterform, complemented by a solid stroke, ensuring clarity and readability. Even at smaller sizes, its legibility remains high on screen, making it suitable for a wide range of digital applications. This font type is best suited for short texts due to its bold and filled letterform. It is ideal for headlines, signage, branding, book covers, invitations, and various other design projects where a bold and impactful Arabic typeface is desired.
