Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>Btw, some time back, I searched the Web for Arabic calligraphy, and was
>almost astonished at the great beauty and variety of what I found.
>
>

Arabic calligraphy is extremely well-developed and a breathtakingly
beautiful artform. There is a lot of artistic and historic work out
there, and lots to see and learn.

I've been having fun musing about the different Arabic styles and how
they could be used within one another (like italics or something) and
how they can mesh with other scripts. I've seen a blocky, stiff,
monotone Arabic script that goes perfectly with the ultramodern
sans-serif Hebrew it was paired with, etc.

Inter-script typography can bend the brain in interesting ways. What
would Garamond-style Hebrew look like? Or Frank-Rhuel Cyrillic... I
have my "Times Hebrew" font, of Hebrew letters made from Times-Roman
elements, and there's the (in)famous Schonfield Hebrew script of
http://www.geocities.com/snortar/schonfield.html (actually uglier than
my Times Hebrew, and that's saying something). Something fun to muse
about...

~mark