 Ibn Muqla was also famous as a calligrapher.He was revered as 'a prophet in the field of handwriting; it was poured upon his hand, even as it was revealed to the bees to make their honey cells hexagonal'.He or his brothers have been considered the originators of the so-called "al-khatt al-mansub" ("proportioned script") style, perfected by the 11th-century Persian calligrapher Ibn al-Bawwab.