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Kufic
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thumb|300x300px|The classical Kufic script of the Blue Quran.
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- History
- Origin of the Kufic script
- Usage of Kufic script
- Characteristics of Kufic script
- Ornamental use of Kufic script
- Square Kufic
- Configurations
- Free Flow
- Linear
- Spiral
- Other
- Gallery
- Kufic script in [[Quran|Qurans]]
- Kufic script elsewhere
- Typefaces
- See also
- Citations
- General references
- External links
thumb|300x300px|The classical Kufic script of the Blue Quran.
The Kufic script () is a style of Arabic script that gained prominence early on as a preferred script for Quran transcription and architectural decoration, and it has since become a reference and an archetype for a number of other Arabic scripts. It developed from the Arabic alphabet in the city of Kufa, from which its name is derived. Kufic is characterized by angular, rectilinear letterforms and its horizontal orientation. There are many different versions of Kufic, such as square Kufic, floriated Kufic, knotted Kufic, and others. The artistic styling of Kufic led to its use in a non-Arabic context in Europe, as decoration on architecture, known as pseudo-Kufic.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kufic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.