Interview with Khatt – Love your letters, they are your babies!
Interview with Pascal Zoghbi by Huda AbiFares from the Khatt Foundation. Part of the Multiple Baselines series. Pascal Zoghbi is one of the young generation of Arab type designers. He has participated...
View Article29LT Azer : Serious & Amicable
29LT Azer type family consist of 14 styles, 7 Standard styles and 7 Slanted styles, covering the following weights: Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, and Black. The Arabic and the Latin...
View ArticleIntroductory Arabic Type Course at AUB
This spring, the elective course “Introduction to Arabic Type Design” at AUB [American University of Beirut] was introduced. It is given part of the Graphic Design program at AUB. Third and fourth...
View ArticleCensored. Why now? Graffiti in Beirut post Arab revolutions.
Since the publication of the Arabic Graffiti Book in 2011, which I co-edited with Don Karl, the scene and stance of graffiti in Beirut has changed drastically. With the development of the Arab Spring...
View ArticleTalk & Workshop at NUQAT Kuwait 2012 / Reinventing the Archaic
The talk and workshop I gave at NUQAT Design Conference, Kuwait 2012, revolved around the topic of reviving traditional Arabic script into contemporary Arabic typefaces, patterns/arabesques and design...
View Article29LT Azal : A Free Geometric Display Font
29LT Azal is a sturdy geometric font with contemporary Arabic features that are inspired from the old Eastern Kufic manuscripts and drawn in a modern-day approach, and old is, after all, what Azal...
View Article29LT Bukra Type Family : The Biggest Multilingual Arabic/Latin Type System
29LT Bukra type system currently consists of 94 styles, 47 Standard styles and 47 Slanted styles ranging from Hairline to Black in Condensed, Semi Condensed, Normal, Semi Wide and Wide. The styles in...
View Article29LT Baseet : A Dynamic & Energetic Type System
29LT Baseet Type System: 29LT Baseet type system consists of 16 styles; 8 Standard styles and 8 Slanted styles. The styles are: Thin, Thin Slanted, Extra Light, Extra Light Slanted, Light, Light...
View ArticleHard Rock Arabic Logo
The Arabic version of Hard Rock Cafe and Hotel word-mark is created in collaboration with Duncan/Channon and Hard Rock’s internal design team. The Arabic logotype had to echo the characteristics and...
View ArticleRTA Dubai Corporate Typeface
The RTA Dubai bespoke multilingual typeface is composed of a distinct contemporary Naskh style Arabic accompanied by a humanistic and symmetric Sans Serif Latin. It is a font family that was created...
View Article29LT Zarid : A Bold & Thoughtful Typeface
Name Meaning معنى الإسم Strong, robust, bold قويّ، وصلب، وجريء _____________________________________________________________________________________ Category الفئة Text and display type خطّ عرض ومحتوى...
View Article29Letters Upgraded Site
The award-winning design studio, 29Letters (29LT), is pleased to announce that we have completely redesigned our website to give font lovers a vastly improved user experience. Our new, bilingual Arabic...
View ArticleArabic Type Anatomy & Typographic Terms
Since most documentation and references about the Arabic script stem from the calligraphic methodology, this article will tackle the problem of allocating typographic terms to Arabic type and...
View Article29LT KAFF : AN ADEQUATE MULTILINGUAL TYPEFACE
29LT Kaff multilingual typeface in 8 weights (Thin, Ultra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Black) 29LT Kaff is a contemporary typeface family designed by Pascal Zoghbi of 29Letters (29LT) and...
View Article29LT Type Specimen
29LT publishes it 1st type specimen showcasing an overview of its multilingual Arabic & Latin typefaces. The following text is written by Maajoun about their creative process of desiging the 29LT...
View Article2014 WINNERS: “HOROUF” BILINGUAL TYPE DESIGN COMPETITION
HOROUF DESIGN COMPETITION Hosted by NUQAT and 29Letters مسابقة حروف لتصميم الخطوط تقدّمها نقاط و٢٩ حرف First annual edition, November 12, 2014 المسابقة السنوية الأولى, 12 نوفمبر 2014 Summary of...
View Article29LT Posters Designed by Reza Abedini
29LT Posters designed by Reza Abedini. Each poster is designed with one of 29LT fonts. 29LT multilingual fonts (Arabic/Latin) were offered to the renowned Iranian graphic designer Mr. Reza Abedini to...
View Article29LT Zeyn : A Graceful Multilingual Typeface
29LT Zeyn is an elegant, contemporary Arabic and Latin typeface. Each weight contains 900-plus glyphs covering the Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Western European languages. The Arabic set contains an...
View ArticleGRAFFITI : Changing Worlds, Changing Language اللغة تتحول، العالم يتغير
Graffiti: Changing Language, Changing Worlds اللغة تتحول، العالم يتغير Designers: Pascal Zoghbi and DUAL Mural Painting: DUAL Wall Size: 10 feet x 156 feet The Below text is written by Keelin...
View ArticleSwatch™ Corporate Arabic Font
Swatch Corporate Typeface (Swatch CT) is a contemporary multilingual typeface covering all Western and Middle Eastern languages used in countries where Swatch™ is present. Swatch CT will be used from...
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