"Cufic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... did not find a single fragment upon which there was more than one letter. The inscriptions were meant to be legible at a considerable distance, for the letters were from two to three inches high. In later days Arab architects followed the example thus set and pressed the elegant forms of the cufic alphabet into their service ...
— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot |
