Arabic Slab Serif is an Arabic typeface that was designed to be versatile in matching any Latin slab serif typeface in bilingual & multilingual contexts. It is available in 2 weights: Light and Bold. Its inspiration from Latin typography gives it a geometric character and a modern spirit. The font has a strong impact and ideal for usage as a display font in corporate as well as retail contexts. Its recognizability makes it a good font choice for usage in logotypes. The typeface was used by several telecom and electronics companies and stores due to its youthful character and its suitability for a advertising campaigns.

For creative applications supporting the use of Arabic language and Open Type Features, such as Adobe Illustrator, InDesign & Photoshop – Middle East versions.

This font is available for purchase on our Arabic Typography Foundry website:
www.arabictypography.com

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BCN Arabic rounded is a modern rounded Arabic typeface that looks approachable and friendly by its rounded corners; yet that remains professional, smart and serious. The bilingual Arabic and Latin typeface is available as an extended family of 7 weights: Thin, Ultralight, Light, Book, Regular, Medium and Bold.

BCN Arabic rounded is legible in small sizes but at the same time has some shapes that bring its own flavour and its own distinctive voice, making it also versatile to be used in headlines or larger type, and providing as a family the possibility to be used in rich typographic hierarchies.

The initial idea of the typeface came from considering a simple rounded legible typeface that can work in branding context: to have an Arabic font that has a soft and charming temperament yet that remains far from childish; filling a niche in the Arabic market that lacks such typographic positioning.

BCN Arabic rounded is a humanistic and calligraphic rounded sans serif based on the beauty of simplicty of Arabic letterforms, making a bridge between a modern sans serif and a traditional text typeface. The design is low contrast with slight modulation in the connections and combines fluid curves with rounded endings that contrast with some sharp intersections. The Compact shapes makes this font a great choice for a wide range of communication purposes from signage to branding, posters, flyers and longer pieces of text. The typeface was designed at the office of Tarek Atrissi Design in Barcelona, hence its name after the acronyms of the city: BCN Arabic Rounded.

This font is available for purchase on our Arabic Typography Foundry website:
www.arabictypography.com

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Muzakhraf typeface is a display Arabic font that celebrates the ornamental tradition that always existed in the practice of Arabic calligraphy. The typeface includes all Arabic letters in isolated forms, elegantly crafting each calligraphic letter with the traditional ornamental forms graphically surrounding it. It is available in 6 different styles, each of them presenting the 29 Arabic letters and the numerals in a unique overall form. The 6 styles are Arabesque, Inverted, Classic, Circle, Framed and Stars.

Muzakhraf typeface is a great addition for every designer’s library of Arabic fonts. Its unique display character and variety of style gives the user endless creative possibilities of using it in different media and contexts. Its rich calligraphic flavour makes it a typographic ingredient that can create many design solutions. The typeface is ideal for creating logos with initials or based on specific letters such as Arabic monograms or wedding logos, but it is also very useful for use in branding or for creating packaging, graphic patterns, posters, tattoos or any visual language material that is based on Arabic typography. Muzakhraf typeface is a great font to use in motion graphics or animations as well as it provides a nice mix of traditional calligraphic material combined with a very graphic simple framing of it.

This font is available for purchase on our Arabic Typography Foundry website:
www.arabictypography.com

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The Arabic-Handwritten font is, as its name suggests, a typeface that imitates a casual Arabic handwriting. The font was crafted to look like authentic hand scribble, when used in small sizes but also when printed on very large billboards.

Arabic-Handwritten font was designed after the design and success of the Mathaf Script font, the custom typeface that we exclusively designed for the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar. The big demand for a typeface similar in concept made us at Tarek Atrissi Design look into designing a new scribble typeface: A typeface that builds on the learning experience we gained in designing the popular Mathaf type. While Arabic-Handwritten is based on the same idea of capturing the hand scribble, it was crafted based on a unique and different handwriting and a Sharpie-like stroke that gave it a completely different flavor than the Mathaf font. Upon the release of the Arabic-Handwritten typeface in 2013, it was immediately licensed by various organizations to be used as part of the branding and advertising material. The Qatar 2022 FIFA world cup committee was of these organizations, using the Arabic-Handwritten typeface in their marketing collaterals. The font is ideal for any design work requiring a handwritten-like typography.

Order your license and download the Arabic-Handwritten typeface on the www.arabictypography.com website.

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BCN Arabic sans is a modern multi-script humanistic Sans serif family in Arabic and Latin. It has a wide range of weights, seven in total, from a delicate display hairline to a robust bold. The Arabic has its roots on calligraphy but keeping it very simple matching the straight vertical cuts of the latin humanistic sans. The typeface family is a variation of the BCN Arabic Rounded font family which was designed earlier, yet with stroke endings that are cut sharply as opposed to rounded. The font is versatile in its usage, and can be idea for usage in branding context, in signage and way-finding systems, as well as in headline or text of printed publications. The font is available as well as web font for usage in websites and digital applications.

This font is available for purchase on our Arabic Typography Foundry website:
www.arabictypography.com

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Dotted Arabic font is a display Arabic typeface with a unique personality and playful style that suggests sparkling lights. It is available in 3 different styles each having the “dot” module different: Circle, Diamond, and Star.

This font is available for purchase on our Arabic Typography Foundry website:
www.arabictypography.com

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Inline Arabic is an Arabic display typeface characterized by a unique personality and a bit of a retro style. Based on the structure of our Arabic Rounded typeface, this font is a display variation of it, built on the idea of two lines twisted to create the letterforms.

This font is available for purchase on our Arabic Typography Foundry website:
www.arabictypography.com

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Kermes typeface is a bilingual Arabic and Latin digital font designed in 2019, consisting of 4 different weights: Light, Regular, Semi Bold and Bold. Kermes- a Spanish word with Arabic origin- reflects in its design this cross cultural mixture. The Latin font is a humanistic sans serif with a strong calligraphic spirit, matching in design with its Arabic counterpart in style, color and rhythm. The Arabic font has few specific characters with a unique design structure: making Kermes typeface stand out in its personality, and positioning it as a recognisable yet very easily legible font. Kermes is ideal for usage in branding contexts, or in wide variety of graphic design projects, as it is versatile for usage as a display or a text font.

This font is available for purchase on our Arabic Typography Foundry website:
www.arabictypography.com

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MishMish is an Arabic typeface that came to life through a series of explorations with the traditional ruq’ah Arabic calligraphic style. The design is based on the widely used traditional calligraphic style, yet is simplified without cascading and with a wide range of ligatures that add to the overall character of the font.

The font is available in two styles: regular and poster. MishMish Regular is more sturdy with a big amount of straight lines and and overall compact design. It has some contrast that makes it works better on smaller sizes, and is characterized by stroke endings that are always cut and straight. MishMish Poster is meant to be used on bigger sizes due to its high contrast and its refined details and curves: giving it a much more delicate and elegant appearance than the Regular style.

Mishmish font is a celebration of the Arabic ruquaa style, one one of the most widely used Arabic calligraphic styles, and that is characterized by its easy legibility, its simplicity, and its versatility in usage. Originating in the Ottoman Empire, the ruquaa style is a big part of visual urban culture in the Arab world today, as it is the most visible style in hand made lettering and street signs. Mishmish typeface aims at bridging a link between the popular street life of this Arabic script style, and a higher graphic art form that it can be used in: providing designers with various possibilities to use this typeface in different design projects, such as branding, exhibition design, and publication / poster design.

This font is available for purchase on our Arabic Typography Foundry website:
www.arabictypography.com

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The office of Tarek Atrissi Design has been commissioned to design a custom bilingual typeface for the city of Diriyah in Saudi Arabia, to be used exclusively by the authorities as part of the official branding of the Diriyah destination. Diriyah is considered as the birthplace of the Saudi nation, with a rich heritage that includes At-Turaif (UNESCO World Heritage Site), and is known for its traditional mud-brick architecture and various iconic landmarks that tells countless stories of Saudi history.

The office of Tarek Atrissi Design- based in Barcelona and with an office in The Netherlands- has been chosen to work on this national project due to the office’s extensive expertise in designing Arabic and bilingual typefaces, and the office’s particular experience in destination branding. In Saudi Arabia, the office of Tarek Atrissi Design has designed and produced some of the most visible typefaces in the country, including the Metro Riyadh typeface, the typeface of the Riyadh Development Authority, the typeface of the ithra cultural center, as well as the typeface for Saudi Aramco. Internationally, the office of Tarek Atrissi Design (www.atrissi.com) has worked with companies such as Apple, the V&A museum in London, and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in New York.

The new typeface family consists of a headline and text font, available each in Arabic and Latin and in three difference weight.

The Diriyah font design is based on a particular historic inspiration: it follows the school of calligraphic practice in Diriyah in Saudi Arabia, before its destruction in 1818. A generation of good calligraphers emerged at the time and developed calligraphic written material that had a distinct style, typical to the region, and not particularly following the popular calligraphic styles of the time. The idea of developing the Diriyah font came from the vision of reviving this cultural heritage and transforming this calligraphic unique style into a high-quality digital typeface.

A specific historic manuscript was taken as a basis for the design inspiration: “almuqana” by “Ibn Qudamah” in the handwriting of sheikh Sulayman ibn Abdullah ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab, and which is considered one of the best calligraphic pieces of the time (it was produced in 1805)

The design of the Diriyah digital font aimed at reviving the particular typographic characteristics found in the calligraphic style of this manuscript, a unique style combining Thuluth and Naskh characteristics with other design traits specific to it. Several letterforms followed the exact design found in the historic manuscripts. Unique forms of specific letters were introduced in the font design, inspired by the references and making the font more ownable. The overall proportions were modified to maintain a better proportion of the font, keeping the unique features yet simplifying them to be modular and applicable as a digital typeface. The final font design is characterized by strong contrast, short descender and bold calligraphic strokes

The Display font is characterized by a stronger personality: It translates the unique characteristics of the historic manuscript in a more exaggerated way, to make the font very recognizable for the Diriyah brand. The text fonts on the other side are more simplified, keeping the overall spirit of the typeface but adjusted to have more classic letterforms to make sure the font is legible in very small sizes.

Besides designing custom typefaces for exclusive usage by brands and government entities, the office of Tarek Atrissi Design regular designs and develop retail Arabic and bilingual fonts and license them to the design community through the type foundry www.ArabicTypography.com

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