On: Why It's So Hard to Design Arabic Typefaces

[Eyas]

uhm, you do realize South Arabian alphabet was last in active use more than a thousand years ago. It now bears no resemblance to modern Arabic type. At all.

I'm reading your argument as suggesting that over a quarter billion Arabic native speakers should have learned a new script? Not sure if that was sarcastic. Either way, if you are making this argument, it is easier for these speakers to learn English instead..

[kps → Eyas]

The point is that the practicality of movable type for a script has nothing to do with whether or not the script is ‘western’.