Transliteration:
- International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IJMES) transliteration system – link – redone
- Brill’s Encyclopedia of Islam third edition (EI3) transliteration system – link
- Work in Progress on a system that allows for a single letter Latin to represent a single Arabic letter. Arabic and Persian Transliteration System using single letter transliteration system: (ATS-slt) – preview
- Use with caution:
- American Library Association – Library of Congress transliteration system (ALA-LC) – complex system- link
- ZDMG (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft) system – link – link
- Automated transliteration systems: These are to be used with caution as they are in infancy stage and are not ready for academic or scholarly use. link – link
Wordprocessing Fonts and Resources:
- Gentium – link
- Noto – link
- Unicode Consortium – link
- Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources – link
- Knut S. Vikør’s The Arabic Macintosh – link
- Junicode – font for medievalists – link
- SIL – link
- Monotype – link
Typesetting Fonts:
- Amiri Arabic typeface- link #
- Monotype Baskerville#
- Monotype Bembo*
- Brill Publisher’s typeface – link #
- Charis SIL – link #
- Robert Slimbach’s Adobe Minion 3#
- Robert Slimbach’s Adobe Text#
- Robert Slimbach’s Adobe Ten Oldstyle#
- Thomas W. Phinney II’s Hypatia Sans Pro#
- Hermann Zapf’s Palatino #
- Adobe Caslon Pro*
- Adobe Cronos Pro* and Adobe Brioso Pro*
- Adobe Garamond Premier Pro^
- Cormorant Garamond – link #
- Cormorant#
- Latin Modern – link #
- Martin Majoor’s Scala Pro* and Scala Sans Pro*
- Alegreya font – from Huerta Tipográfica – link #
- Bruce Rogers’s Centaur Pro*
- Jan Tschichold’s Sabon Pro*
- Fred Smeijers’ Quadraat*
- František Štorm’s Walbaum*
- Junicode – font for medievalists – link
- SIL’s Scheherazade font – link
- Poster and Billboard font: Adobe Trajan Pro# (Upper case and without Italics)
# denotes that font has native support for a full set of glyphs for transliteration and includes bold and italic typefaces;
* Versions exists that support a full set of glyphs for transliteration
^ No support for transliteration
Typesetting and Book Design References:
- Morison, Stanley, First Principles of Typography. Cambridge University Press, 1951. link
- Warde, Beatrice. The Crystal Goblet, Sixteen Essays on Typography. World Publishing, 1956. link
- Tschichold, Jan. Die neue Typographie. English translation as The New Typography by Robin Kinross and published by University of California Press, 2006.(link)
- Bringhurst, Robert. Elements of Typographic Style. Hartley & Marks, 2012. Originally published in 1992 and updated 8 times. Ironically the publisher now produces only blank books! (link)
- Felici, James. Complete Manual of Typography. Adobe Press, 2003, 2nd ed. 2011. link
- French, Nigel. Indesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe Indesign. Adobe Press, 2006, now it’s in its 4th ed. 2018. link
- Blatner, David and Anne-Marie Concepción. Indesign Secrets. Website, podcast, book and courses. link
- Birdsall, Derek. Notes on Book Design. Yale University Press, 2004. link
- Hendel, Richard. On Book Design. Yale University Press, 1998. link
- Helfand, Jessica. Design: The Invention of Desire. Yale University Press, 2016. Also her eloquent podcast on design. link
- Lupton, Ellen. Thinking with Type. Princeton Architectural Press, 2004, 2nd ed.2010. link
- Squire, Victoria. Getting it Right with Type. Laurance King Publishing, 2006. link
- Saltz, Ina. Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type, Rockport Publishers, 2009 and 2019.
- Bierut, Michael. Seventy-Nine Short Essays on Design, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. link
- Müller-Brockmann, Josef. Grid systems in graphic design: A visual communication manual for graphic designers, typographers and three dimensional designers. Niggli Verlag, 1996. The classic book in the field. (link)
- Samara, Timothy. Making and Breaking the Grid. Rockport Publishers, 2002, 2005, and 2017. (link) (lecture)
General References:
The process of installing fonts depends on your operating system. Here are some links that may be helpful: