


The drawing of the letters was all done using the Arabic calligraphic bamboo stick and based on the Naskh Calligraphic Style. Each of the 26 Latin letters has Caps, Initial, Medial and Final shape enabling the letters to connect as in the Arabic script. This is a commissioned Latin typeface based on the same concept as of an Arabic font. In 2020, Pascal Zoghbi (29LT) and Ben Wittner released the monospaced Arabic / Latin typefaces 29 LT Baseet Variable and 28 LT Zawi Variable. It is a mixture of straight vertical, horizontal and diagonal pen stokes incorporated in-between curved corners and edges. Baseet (2009) is a hybrid Neo-Naskh / Modern Kufi geometric typeface.The font will used in all Arabic publications, ads and packaging for the company. I was the Arabic type consultant/specialist and associate type designer alongside Leah Hoffmitz. Unfortunately, I can't mention the name of the company nor the design firm I did this Arabic type work for. The Arabic is intended to work with the Latin type Univers. Zoghbi: An Arabic corporate typeface for a global shipping and transport company. A corporate font under the heading, Arabic for Univers (2008).Adrien Midzic and Swiss Typefaces aided with the Latin. This Futura-like typeface saw a variable part added in 2020. Bukra display type for Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai, 2008.Al Rouiya Arabic Type for the Al Rouiah Newspaper in Kuwait, 2008.Alef Pixel Caps Type for Alef Magazine (2008).In 2007, he created a 3-style Phoenician type family called Fniqiya.

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At first I was a bit worried due to the fact that it would be my first professional type design work and that the due date was too close. Huda AbiFares contacted me while I was finalizing Massira and presented the opportunity to collaborate with the Dutch type designer Martin Majoor to design an Arabic typeface, which is part of the Typographic Matchmaking 01 project organized by Khatt Foundation. He writes: Massira is my graduation typeface at Type&Media postgraduate course at The Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. He has embarked on a project with Martin Majoor to design some Arabic fonts that fit Majoor's designs. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin on the topic of political resistance and expression through graffiti in Lebanon and Palestine. Petersburg, he ran a workshop on the Arabic Kufi script. His Arabic type foundry is called 29letters.Īt ATypI 2008 in St. An ex-student of the KABK in 2006, he currently is a part time instructor of design and typography at Notre Dame University, Louaize, Lebanon, as well as a part time instructor of typography at the American University of Beirut (AUB), both since 2007. Madrid (and before that, Lebanon)-based Arabic type designer who runs the Arab type news and blog site called Arabic Typography. TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on
