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Sada Arabic Cover

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Detail of the Sada/Seria pages from the Typographic Matchmaking book.

  • Project, Font Family: 

    Sada echoing Seria: two scripts in one family

    New Arabic companion to the Seria font family

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares - This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Martin Majoor, and the Arab type designer Pascal Zoghbi.
  • Book: 

    1Typographic Matchmaking

    This book is now available for ordering online from Nijhof & Lee and BIS Publishers.

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares - As the world moves forward towards a more international (design) society, the need for fonts that can support multi-scripts becomes ...
  • Khatt projects

    We live to work!

    Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.
  • Project, Font Family: 

    Fresco Arabic: western Latin meets western Kufi.

    New Arabic companion to the Fresco font family

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares - This project is a collaboration between the renown Ducth type designer, Fred Smeijers, and the Arab type designer Lara Assouad-Khoury
  • Project, Font Family: 

    BigVesta Arabic: legibility in monumental proportions

    New Arabic companion to the BigVesta font family

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares - This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Gerard Unger, and the renown Arab type designer Nadine Chahine.
  • Khatt Font Project: 

    The goals of the project

    Creating good matching Arabic fonts for existing Latin font families

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares - The main thrust of the project is to address the modernization of Arabic textfaces and to develop quality Arabic fonts.
  • Khatt Font Project: 

    The design brief

    To create legible Arabic fonts that can accommodate the design needs of contemporary design in the Arab world.

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares - The brief was limited to creating book typefaces that can compliment the chosen Latin typefaces. Innovation and diversity in Arabic ...
  • TheMix Arabic: balancing handwritten and geometrically constructed letterforms.

    Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares - This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Lucas de Groot, and the renown Arab calligrapher and designer, ...
  • event:

    El Hema Lecture at NDU

    wael morcos
  • event: khatt kufi & kaffiya

    The Typographic Matchmaking Project: Developing Dual-Script Fonts

    24 Aug 07 16:10 Willem Velthoven - Willem Velthoven interviewing the Typographic Matchmaking Type Designers: Nadine Chahine, Gerard Unger, Tarek Atrissi, Peter Bilak,...