But the story does not end there.
The first test came in 1985. They printed a single page of Surah Al-Fatihah and gave it to an old man in the Prophet’s Mosque who had been blind for thirty years. He ran his fingertips over the raised ink. His lips moved. Al-mushaf Font
Forty years ago, calligrapher Uthman Taha sat in the holy city of Medina, his reed pen hovering over a sheet of white paper. The year was 1982. A delegation from the King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran had given him a task that felt less like a commission and more like a divine burden. But the story does not end there
He replied: “I thought about the person who would read this page at midnight, alone, searching for peace. I wanted my letters to be a door that opens without a sound.” He ran his fingertips over the raised ink
“This is lighter,” the old man whispered, tears welling. “I can feel the spaces. I can breathe between the verses.”
He isolated himself in his studio, which smelled of ink and sandalwood. He began to draw.