Tatweel
Kashida or kasheeda (,Transliteration based on Classical and Early New Persian (but also applies to the modern varieties of Dari and Tajik language, Tajik). In Iranian Persian, Modern Iranian Persian, however, this would be transliterated as or . ), also known as tatweel or tatwīl (), is a type of justification (typesetting), justification in written Arabic and in some descendant cursive scripts in which the line connecting letters is extended. In contrast to white-space justification, which increases the length of a line of text by expanding spaces between word spacing, words or individual letter-spacing, letters, kasheeda creates justification by elongating characters at certain points. Kasheeda justification can be combined with white-space justification. The analog in European (Latin-based) typography (expanding or contracting letters to improve spacing) is sometimes called ''expansion'', and falls within microtypography. Kasheeda is considerably easier and more flexible, h ...
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