Hermann Zapf, the designer behind popular typefaces such as Palatino and Optima, was born in Nuremberg, Germany, almost 100 years ago. The typeface that bears his name, Zapfino, is in many ways his ...

Efforts being made to reaffirm Arab identity at corporate level Dubai: "There aren't enough Arabic typefaces," said typographer Tarek Atrissi. It wasn't so much an observation as it was a declaration.

Leading designer and typographer, Mourad Boutros talks about bilingual fonts, his thoughts about the industry he has been a part of over the last 40 years and dream projects You see them everywhere: ...

Liron Lavi Turkenich is a freelance type designer, originally from Haifa, Israel, and graduated from Shenkar College, Tel Aviv in 2012 with a bachelors degree in Visual Communication, where she ...

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 ...

"Aravrit" is a new typeface that can be read in both Arabic and Hebrew, created by Liron Lavi Turkenich from the mixed Israeli coastal city of Haifa, a place where Jews and Arabs live together, and is ...

Palestinian and Arab social media users have revived an old Arabic font to beat the powerful algorithms of Facebook and express their political opinions and support for Palestinians caught up in the ...

“Type doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s part of a continuum.” Sahar Afshar sits across from me in a café on Gipsy Hill in south London, one hand holding her still-steaming chai latte and the other on ...

Liron Lavi Turkenich is a freelance type designer, originally from Haifa, Israel, and graduated from Shenkar College, Tel Aviv in 2012 with a bachelors degree in Visual Communication, where she ...