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Alif Type is a type foundry founded by Khaled Hosny, and specializes in Arabic and mathematical typefaces.

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Last three Suras of the Quran

This uses Raqq typeface.

The pages are laid out following the layout of Kufi mushafs, where sura titles are written in gold and outlined with a darker color. Letters in sura titles are also dotless, and the text is void of vowel marks, and with eliminated inter-letter space to the point of overlap at times

While sura body starts with basmala immediately followed by the text of the sura without a separator. And there is space between calligraphic syllables equal to the inter-word space, so for example in the basmala of the first sura the space between the first two words is the the same as the space between the first two letters of the second word.

Text lines are broken between calligraphic syllables, so we see the first line of the first sura that the line is broken inside the last word of the basmala.

Vowel marks are shown as red, rounded dots, while diacritical dots are rectangular in the same color as the letters.

For ayah marks, ornamental gold dots are used, with each five ayahs marked with a big ornamental circle with the word “خمس” (five) inside it written in a style similar to sura title.

And we see excessive use of elongation to justify the text lines, even when it is not really needed. For example, in the first line of the first sura the word second to last of the basmala is excessively elongated, causing the line to be broken in the middle of the last word. We also see excessive elongation in the last line of the same sura.

Surat il-Ikhlas Beginning of Surat al-Falaq End of Surat al-Falaq and beginning of Surat al-Nas End of Surat al-Nas The four pages combined