An early pioneer in modern Arabic script design, Akl created a font based on the Phoenician alphabet in the 1950s. “He spoke really passionately about Arabic.

”There’s about 650 Arabic fonts usable across the globe, and none of them happened to be dyslexic-friendly,” says Rahul Sharma of Leo Burnett. At the very least, Maqroo is trying to change that.

Arabic lettering was barely on Westerners' radar only a dozen years ago. ... The firm had also chosen an Arabic font face, but Emerystudio wanted something different for signage.

By comparison, there are just 108 Arabic font families. ... Bil’ak programmed his way out of that problem, and since then, commercial tools have become available for creating Arabic fonts.

We created 4 fonts, still a part of the Apple library. They had an application font and a system font. Geeza. I know Geeza. I chose the name. So there was a classic Arabic font called Yakout, by ...

The name came from the idea that this font has a mission to simplify Arabic and make it understandable to non-Arabic speakers. The original name of the typeface was Jameel, which means ...

There aren’t enough fonts to use and complement branding for new business, publications, etc. I know of only ten Arabic fonts compared to English — too few. It is very ‘in’ coming up with new fonts.” ...

Afterwards, besides designing dual-alphabet fonts, I think it would be an interesting initiative to start examining how the Latin alphabet could come into this equation too. Both fonts are being ...

Darah had said in one of its reports about Arabic fonts that searching for the origin of Arabic font has become some sort of adventure. King Fahd Complex for the Printing of the Holy Quran in ...