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Kashida
Form of typographical justification used with the Arabic script
Kashida
Kashida or kasheeda (Persian: کَشِیدَه, romanized: kašīda, lit. 'extended' or 'stretched' or 'lengthened'), also known as tatweel or tatwīl (Arabic: تَطْوِيل, romanized: taṭwīl), is a type of justification in written Arabic scripts, in which the line connecting letters is extended. In contrast to white-space justification, which increases the length of a line of text by expanding spaces between words or individual letters, kasheeda creates justification by elongating characters at certain points. Kasheeda justification can be combined with white-space justification. The analog in European (Latin-based) typography (expanding or contracting letters to improve spacing) is sometimes called expansion, and falls within microtypography. Kashida is considerably easier and more flexible, however, because Arabic–Persian scripts feature prominent horizontal strokes, whose lengths are accordingly flexible. For example, al-ḥamdu and Raḥīm with and without kasheeda may look like the following: The terms...
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