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  • Pascal Zoghbi

    Type Designer, Graphic Designer & Design Professor

    29Letters / 29LT Description: www.29LT.com 29Letters [29LT] Is a design studio specialized in contemporary Arabic and multilingual typography. Alongside its commercial fonts, which can be viewed and...
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  • Mashrebiya Font Competition Jury Report 2017

    Reporting on the selected final submission of Thierry Fétiveau's font Azmar.

    The jury was impressed by the apparent level of motivation of Theirry Fétiveau to deliver a very complete multi-script font. His font includes both a complete character set for the Latin as well as...

  • The Deadline has been extended to 31 July 2017!

    Join The Mashrebiya Font Competition: Fonts for modern architectural screens.

    The Khatt Foundation's novel type design competition that aims to add culture-specific fonts to the Arab visual culture, fonts specifically designed to produce modern Mashrebiya architectural screens.

  • Don't miss the Deadline of 30 June 2017!

    Join The Mashrebiya Font Competition: Fonts for modern architectural screens.

    The Khatt Foundation's novel type design competition that aims to add culture-specific fonts to the Arab visual culture, fonts specifically designed to produce modern Mashrebiya architectural screens.

  • 29LT's upgraded website

    The new responsive and bilingual 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. www.29LT.com

  • Cairo font?

    So, Cairo was the first Arabic city who owned an Arabic font?
  • Tashkeel, Pavillion Downtown Dubai Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès

    Reminder: Khatt Foundation Type Design Workshop

    Dubai Workshop and Lecture Series 2011

    5-Day workshop || 3-Day Lecture Series by several renowned Arab designers Workshop leaders: Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares, Lara Assouad Khoury, Pascal Zoghbi Guest speakers: Wissam Shawkat, Sheikha Bin...

  • Arabic Calligraphy in Modern Typographic Layouts

    How to integrate Arabic Calligraphy into modern design layouts? In the past few years the Arabic calligraphy was a comeback into modern logotypes and contemporary design layouts. That was mostly due...

  • Newspaper Arabic Headline Fonts

    Corporate Contemporary Arabic fonts for Modern Arabic Newspapers

    Arabic Newspapers compete for the info and the design of their tabloids. Creating a strong headline font for the newspaper is one of the key points to give the tabloid a modern feel.

  • Kufi Workshops

    The Kufi is the one of the oldest Arabic Calligraphic styles and at the same time it is geometric and easy to teach to students and non-Arab people. This is why I was doing Kufi Workshops since I...

  • Lebanese Graffiti

    Nearly all of the graffiti in Lebanon over the past years were either 1. political words & sentences or 2. signage for shops or places. However, last week I was driving to Beirut and I have spotted a...

  • Arabic Glyphs Proportions and Guidlines

    The following article is a brief description of systems and guidelines used in Arabic calligraphy and Arabic type design field to achieve proportional and harmonious Arabic letters. This article is...

  • Generating Arabic Fonts

    Developing and generating Arabic fonts is not as easy and straightforward as for Latin fonts.This article will cover Encoding, Glyph and Font naming, OpenType features and other topics concerning the...

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