Maqroo, an Arabic word for “readable,” is also the name of the first-of-its-kind Arabic font for readers with dyslexia. “Arabic is a complicated writing system,” says Abdo Mohamed, founder of the type ...

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: Some people take years learning the intricacies of the Arabic script, at times so ornate it can be difficult to decipher. Others are dedicated to designing a simple Arabic font that can be ...

Typeface design has a western-normativity problem: for years, most Arabic typefaces have been designed by Latin-language typographers. But Arabic is built differently than Latin—its letters can have ...

Some people take years learning the intricacies of the Arabic script, at times so ornate it can be difficult to decipher. Others are dedicated to designing a simple Arabic font that can be read at ...

There are 28 letters in the Arabic alphabet. There are four possible written forms for each letter, depending on whether it stands alone, or occurs at the beginning, middle or end of a word. Then ...

(JTA) — When Liron Lavi Turkenich designed a writing system combining Hebrew and Arabic characters as a final project in college, she probably could not have imagined that her script would become the ...

Graphic designers often hope to express the power of communication through their work, but not many attack the project as literally as the Lebanese designer Rana Abou Rjeily does. She has created ...

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 ...