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 ...

Most newspapers and books use Yakout, a Simplified Arabic typeface released by font company Linotype in 1956. Monotype, the massive American type company, has released others. But as far as a vast ...

Mirsaal Arabic is a very well-studied font in terms of shapes and balance ... I’m just trying to show other possibilities for making Arabic type accessible to people trying to learn the language ...

I tried to bring some of that into my font. I also used many typographic books to learn more about the alphabets. One project that I learned a lot from was Typographic Matchmaking (Netherlands, 2008), ...

I think they do more with fonts than Arabic, different approaches. Not really, no. It makes it flourish. Because technology makes it possible to express better. So it makes type more important ...

Dubai’s government might have the solution. Called simply ‘Dubai Font,’ the new Arabic and Latin type styles are now freely available for the whole world to use. With its simple, San Serif ...