Qalam Lab · مختبر القلم

The letter is a skeleton (the pen's path) swept by a flat nib held at a fixed angle — thick and thin fall out of pure geometry, exactly as a reed pen writes. Drag the red points; the دال re-renders live. · اسحب النقاط الحمراء وشاهد الدال تُكتب من هندسة القصبة وحدها.

This is Lane D research (see the type-design essay) — the route to scripts no font can give. The production studio shapes with real OpenType fonts; this page is the laboratory. · ← back to the studio