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Khatt Font Project Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
The design brief
To create legible Arabic fonts that can accommodate the design needs of contemporary design in the Arab world.
The brief was limited to creating book typefaces that can compliment the chosen Latin typefaces. Innovation and diversity in Arabic textfaces was a primary concern because book and publication design...
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Khatt Font Project Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
The goals of the project
Creating good matching Arabic fonts for existing Latin font families
The main thrust of the project is to address the modernization of Arabic textfaces and to develop quality Arabic fonts.
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Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
Fedra Arabic: balancing legibility with…
New Arabic companion to the Fedra font family
This project is a collaboration between the renown type designer, Peter Bilak, and the Arab type designer Tarek Atrissi.
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Habib Khoury
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Martin Majoor
Type and graphic designer
Martin Majoor (1960) has been designing type since the mid-1980s. After a student placement at URW in Hamburg, he started in 1986 as a typographic designer in the Research & Development Department at...
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Ruh al-Alam
Founding artist of Visual Dhikr, practising calligraphy/typography to represent and reflect spiritual messages.
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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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Khatt Project Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
Typographic Matchmaking fonts in public spaces
The BigVesta Arabic font used in Guggenheim exhibition design
the Vesta and BigVesta Arabic fonts are used on large scale environmental graphics and lettering for the Saadiyat Island Cultural District Masterplan, which was unveiled in Abu Dhabi, on the 31st of...
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Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 23 May 2007
Fresco Arabic: western Latin meets western Kufi.
New Arabic companion to the Fresco font family
This project is a collaboration between the renown Ducth type designer, Fred Smeijers, and the Arab type designer Lara Assouad-Khoury
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Project, Font Family Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 24 May 2007
BigVesta Arabic: legibility in monumental…
New Arabic companion to the BigVesta font family
This project is a collaboration between the renown Dutch type designer, Gerard Unger, and the renown Arab type designer Nadine Chahine.
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Conference American University in Dubai
The Kitabat conference
The first major Arabic calligraphy and typography conference in the Middle East.
Dubai, 5 - 8 April 2006 Hosted by the Visual Communication Department at the American University in Dubai, in partnership with the Khatt Foundation (Center for Arabic Typography, Amsterdam) and...
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Khatt Font Project
The Typographic Matchmaking 01 project
Building cultural bridges with typeface design
10 Arab and Dutch designers collaborate on designing Arabic companions for Dutch fonts
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Book Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès 1 Jan 2001
Arabic Typography
A comprehensive sourcebook
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Khatt projects
We live to work!
Here is an overview of our projects past, present and future.
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Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès
Founding Director of the Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography.
Member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) http://a-g-i.org/ www.khtt.net www.khattbooks.com Instagram: @khattfoundation, @khatt_Books, @khatt_chronicles, @hudasmitshuijzen Twitter: @khttnet ...