Naskh — the script that learned to serveالنسخ — الخط الذي تعلّم الخدمة

Naskh means 'copying', and that is its genius: a hand fast enough for scribes yet beautiful enough for scripture. Perfected by Ibn al-Bawwab in the eleventh century, it dethroned Kufic as the script of the Qur'an because anyone literate could actually read it. Its letters are round, open and evenly weighted, with generous white space — the qualities that made it the ancestor of nearly every Arabic print typeface and the default of every screen you own. When you design in Naskh you are using the most-read letterforms in human history.