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Mouneer Al Shaarani Workshop
I took part in the Arabic Calligraphy and Lettering workshop that was offered by the renowned Syrian Calligrapher Mouneer Al Shaarani at Art on 56th Gallery in Gemmayzeh, Beirut. Inspired from his...
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29LT Massira Type Project
29LT Massira is a simplified spontaneous handwriting set of fonts based on the casual writings of the Lebanese people and the Ruqaa Arabic calligraphic style. The type-family does not have weights but...
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Nasri Khattar’s Typographic Journey
Nasri Khattar / Unified Arabic Type Last August in Beirut, I had the opportunity to meet with Camille Khattar Hedrick, the daughter of Nasri Khattar, the creator of a library of fonts based on Unified...
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UA Neo Fonts
Ha’ Glyph in both UA Neo N & B UA Neo B, originally known as UA Beiruti Modern, and UA Neo N, originally known as UA Neo-Nashki, belong to the first set of type revivals of Unified Arabic first...
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29LT Arapix : Multilingual Pixel Font
29LT Arapix is a 12 pixel high multilingual Latin-Arabic pixel font with incredible capabilities. The Arapix is an almost traditional Naskh. It is elegant and easy to read even in very small sizes. It...
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29LT Makina : Multilingual Typewriter Typeface
29LT Makina is a revival of an Arabic, Persian and Latin typewriter. “Makina” in Arabic means ‘machine’, which is inspired from the translation of a typewriter from English to Arabic. The type-family...
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MIA corporate type for The Museum of Islamic Art
The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar. MIA type is a contemporary, bilingual Arabic and Latin type-family based on the Eastern Kufic calligraphic style drawn in four weights: Light, Regular, Bold, and...
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Noor Bank Corporate Type
Noor Type is a simplified, hybrid Kufi/Naskh type family in three weights, light, regular, and bold. Its contemporary outlines reflect the new branding strategy for the Noor Bank in the United Arab...
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Swatch™ 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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GRAFFITI : 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...
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29LT 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...
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29LT 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...
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29LT 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...
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29LT 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...
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Arabic 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...
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29Letters 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...
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29LT Zarid : A Bold & Thoughtful Typeface
Name Meaning معنى الإسم Strong, robust, bold قويّ، وصلب، وجريء _____________________________________________________________________________________ Category الفئة Text and display type خطّ عرض ومحتوى...
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RTA 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...
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29LT 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...
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29LT 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...
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29LT 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...
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Censored. 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...
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Introductory 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...
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29LT 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...
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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...
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