Draft:Arian AMU

Arian AMU is a Unicode font family containing most of the necessary characters of the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Georgian and Hebrew alphabets in all styles, including the alphabet set, punctuation marks, numerals and basic mathematical symbols. Font family includes serif, sans-serif and monospaced typefaces with their all four styles: regular, bold, italic and bold italic. On the font family only sans-serif typeface contains ligatures of Armenian alphabet “ﬓ”, “ﬔ”, “ﬕ”, “ﬖ”, “ﬗ”, as well as “և”), while “Arian AMU Serif” and “Arian AMU Mono” contain only “և”, which after orthographical reforms during Soviet Union, The fonts of the family were created by font creator Ruben Hakobyan (Tarumyan) with the financial support of the ARGA Foundation. the status of separate letter.

Thanks to hinting and kerning, the texts represented with these fonts readable in both on screen and in print, and Armenian accent marks are placed on corresponding vowel. The fonts of the family were created by type designer Ruben Hakobian (Tarumian)^[hy] with the financial support of the ARGA Foundation.

The Arian AMU typeface was created to replace the original Arial AMU typeface introduced by the ABBYY company, which is a UTF-8 version of Arial AM created by Ruben Tarumyan, and due to parallel ArmSCII support had fundamental conflicts with the Unicode transliteration template..

Arian AMU

Category	Sans-serif Serif Monospaced Grqi (Armenian-only) Aramyan (Armenian-only)
Classification	Humanist sans-serif (Sans-serif) Serif Monospaced
Designer(s)	Ruben Tarumyan
Foundry	ARGA Foundation, Ruben Tarumyan
Date created	www.arian.am
License	Free typeface
Website	http://www.arian.am

History

Arial AM is the prototype typeface of Arian AMU, which was an ArmSCII standard typeface created in 1995 by Ruben Hakobyan. Being one of the best fonts at the time for presenting Armenian writing on screens, it became widely popular due to hinting.

Later, the designer created a Unicode version of the same font, which maintained ArmSCII backward compatibility, for use in ABBYY's FineReader OCR font recognition program. It had only the characters of the Basic Latin and Armenian Unicode blocks. But because it had ArmSCII backward compatibility, there were fundamental conflicts with Unicode's UTF-8 transliteration. Later, in 2011, when there was a need for a multilingual Unicode font and for the proper presentation of Armenian writing on the screens of portable devices, Ruben Hakobyan created the Arian AMU font, which was completely recreated. In April 2013, Arian AMU became a font family when the author introduced serif and monospaced types, making it full-fledged Armenian font family with all styles. In addition to the Armenian alphabet, the fonts allow to represent Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Georgian and Hebrew scripts.