An early pioneer in modern Arabic script design, Akl created a font based on the Phoenician alphabet in the 1950s. “He spoke really passionately about Arabic.

Arabic fonts featuring modern or traditional elements have become ubiquitous in peoples’ daily lives within the region that it’s hard to believe that they hardly existed over 40 years ago.

Their typography reflects these divisions. The regional languages are a hodgepodge of typographic spheres: Latin, Blackletter, Cyrillic, and Arabic. Never mind the locally designed Glagolitic scripts.

We met like oi, oi, this is Steve Jobs, this is Ali, he's doing Arabic fonts, oh yes, hello how are you, and you move along. When the Mac came out, I didn't see him after that.

One project that I learned a lot from was Typographic Matchmaking (Netherlands, 2008), in which Arabic and Dutch type designers collaborated to create Arabic versions that matched popular Latin ...

"Kitabat" Conference to discuss the history, present & future status of the Arabic Calligraphy & Typography Dubai, April 6, 2006 - The Visual Communication Department at the American University in ...

Darah had said in one of its reports about Arabic fonts that searching for the origin of Arabic font has become some sort of adventure. King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran in ...

In addition to her Expo 2020 project, Captan is the co-founder of an intensive educational programme, ‘Arabic Type Design – Beirut (ATDB)’, along with lettering artist Kristyan Sarkis ...

Arabic calligraphy creates more emotional reference to the consumers.” Emirates Airline was one of the first companies in the region to use calligraphy in its logo.