Their typography reflects these divisions. The regional languages are a hodgepodge of typographic spheres: Latin, Blackletter, Cyrillic, and Arabic. Never mind the locally designed Glagolitic scripts.

Nowadays, Tasmeem and Mirsaal are available for purchase as well as other disconnected fonts. Detached Arabic is not an alien concept anymore; we can even find a lot of Arabic logos designed with ...

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 ...

"Kitabat" Conference to discuss the history, present & future status of the Arabic Calligraphy & Typography Dubai, April 6, 2006 - The Visual Communication Department at the American University in ...