Identity
The Seal
Four متن turning round a page, drawn on one grid.
The drawing
The seal is the word matn written four times in square Kufic, turning clockwise round a page. The page in the centre is a frame with a red block inside it: the matn in the middle, with the four words round it as its commentary.1 The seal is drawn on one grid of 46 by 46 cells. Every stroke is two cells wide, and every gap is two cells, from word to word, from word to centre, and from frame to block.
Colour
The press uses three colours. Rubric, the red, is kept for the centre block of the seal and for the reading marks in the books, the numbers of notes, sections and pages, and it appears only on light grounds. On a dark ground the seal is printed in one colour.
Small sizes
Below 32 pixels or 10 millimetres the seal gives way to the page mark, which is its centre on its own. The page mark is also the frame of every page number in the books and on this site, and it is the favicon.
The wordmark
The wordmark sets the Arabic over the Latin on the same grid. Both lines are 49 cells wide; the Arabic reaches that width with a kashida before the final noon.