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 ...

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 ...

Old Arabic fonts are distinguished for their diversity and beauty but the most common ones have been Makki and Madani as they have been used the most. The font Madani was used to write the Quran and ...

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 ...

Free-to-use font for 23 languages now available for the whole world to use Dubai: Tired of Times New Roman and over Arial? Dubai’s government might have the solution. Called simply ‘Dubai Font,’ the ...

The tallest building in the world is, by definition, quite visible. So it makes some sense that the creators of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai were fastidious about the look of the tower—right down to the ...