Born in Lebanon, she came to a career in type design initially via her graphic design studies at the American University of Beirut. This early awakening to the design possibilities for Arabic type was ...

A new breed of designers is refashioning classical Arabic fonts to combine beauty and readability for the digital era Cairo: There are 28 letters in the Arabic alphabet. There are four possible ...

BEIRUT: For years, art directors, graphic designers and the writers and editors who occasionally poke their noses into the debate have been engaged in huge philosophical brawls over tiny technical ...

You see them everywhere: on billboards, in magazine articles, at airports welcoming you, but you probably didn’t spare much thought about them. Arabic fonts featuring modern or traditional elements ...

The designer and Pentagram partner talks to us about balancing multiple scripts and voices in the layouts, cover and typographic illustrations found in Haraka Baraka ‘Haraka baraka’ is a term found ...

Ben Hersh is a designer at Medium. Sign up to get Backchannel's weekly newsletter. But by focusing on the smaller gaffes, we’re missing the big picture. Typography is much bigger than a “gotcha” ...