From: shailenpatel2 <shailenp@google.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:39:15 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: add readex pro article
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+<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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