Mashq is the way calligraphers learn. This is its alif:

The alif in Ruq'ah: three dotsEvery letter, in every script, is measured in dots

Short lessons you write on screen with your finger, a mouse or an iPad pen, one letter at a time. Each letter is measured in dots, the way calligraphers measure it. Start now, with no account.

Start the first lesson, free or choose your script

The first lesson is in Ruq'ah: the alif, the yardstick of every letter.

5 scripts
43 lessons in each script
Level 1 is free
Full lessons from AED 15 a month

Choose your script

Each script has its own path: six levels, from the pen and the dot to whole lines from a master’s sheet. Not sure? Which script should you choose?

How a lesson goes

Each letter goes through four steps. You move on when you reach the pass mark of the step you are on.

1Over the faint letterPass mark 80%
2Inside the hollow letterPass mark 70%
3Beside the modelPass mark 60%
4From memoryPass mark 55%

Writing beside the model is mashq, as calligraphers have always practised it; the faint letter and the hollow letter are aids of today. A lesson counts as passed, and is kept on your device, when you write it from memory.