Image: Lina Abdul Hadi
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The Kufin typeface set in a text block.
Lina Abdul Hadi
A Jordan-based graphic designer and type enthusiast,
She is passionate about the communicative value of graphic design and its ability to convey meaning across diverse cultures, ideologies and media. Throughout her career she has developed an interdisciplinary approach to graphic design, engaging in print and digital media, information architecture, applied to a diverse range of projects including branding, web and interactive design, wayfinding and system design, as well as layout and book design. A fascination with typography, calligraphy, and language, both Arabic and English, led her to London to undertake a degree in MA Contemporary Typographic Media at the London College of Communication in 2011, where she delved into the research of language and its visual manifestations.
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Image: Lina Abdul Hadi
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Examples of Kufi Geometric patterns in architecture, and square kufi arabesques.
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Image: Lina Abdul Hadi
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Blocks of text (left in English, and right in Arabic) are set in the Square Kufi's most common form, in the square spiral formation, to test the typeface through the iterative process of design.
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Image: Lina Abdul Hadi
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The variations of the letter 'a' on its grid structure. Letters have been grouped by their most common means of interlock, each group shares similar basic countenance and structure, although some...
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Image: Lina Abdul Hadi 30 Jul 2012
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Part of the Kufin typeface's character set showing the individual letters and some ligatures and word blocks.
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Image: Lina Abdul Hadi
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Text set in a block. Slight manipulation is needed to achieve a perfectly rectangular text block.