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+<img src="Readex_Pro.png">
+<p>
+ Could a new typeface make it easier for the more than
+ <a href="https://www.unesco.org/en/days/world-arabic-language"
+ >400 million Arabic speakers</a
+ >
+ around the world to read?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Type designers
+ <a href="https://arabictype.com/about/">Dr. Nadine Chahine</a> and
+ <a href="http://thomasjockin.com/">Thomas Jockin</a> joined forces to find
+ out. They created
+ <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Readex+Pro#about">Readex Pro</a> in
+ Arabic using the methodology behind
+ <a href="https://design.google/library/lexend-readability/">Lexend</a>, made
+ for Latin. The name Readex was chosen as a shortened form of “reading
+ expanded.”
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ When Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup started the
+ <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lexend">Lexend project</a>, her
+ goal was to help people to read more easily and fluently by reducing visual
+ noise. The Lexend fonts have distinct
+ <a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/letterform"
+ >letterforms</a
+ >, and offer the option to widen
+ <a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/tracking_letter_spacing"
+ >tracking</a
+ >
+ (the spacing between letters) together with widening the shapes of individual
+ letterforms themselves. This novel functionality is based on a theory known as
+ the “Shaver-Troup Formulation,” which was described in detail in a
+ <a
+ href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040253568A1/en?oq=10%2f462%2c865"
+ >2003 USA patent application</a
+ >.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ To learn more, read
+ <a href="https://material.io/blog/readex-pro-legibility-arabic-type-design"
+ >The Design of Readex Pro</a
+ >
+ (English) and
+ <a
+ href="https://blog.google/intl/ar-mena/company-news/outreach-initiatives/readex-arabic-accessibility/"
+ >خط Readex Pro: استكشاف حدود سهولة قراءة النص من خلال خط عربي جديد </a
+ >(Arabic)
+ </p>
+
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