There is a big need for modern Arabic typefaces and for Arabic/Latin Typefaces. All three of us now are working and developing new Arabic fonts that are starting to appear in the market. From the past three years there was Nadine Chahine, Titus Nemith and myself Pascal Zoghbi who have graduated with Masters in Type Design and are specialized in Arabic type. Over the last few years, the awareness about Arabic type and the need for new fonts was translated in the rise of Arabic Type Foundries and young contemporary independent Arabic Type Designers. The reason for that is there are not so may new OpenType Arabic fonts for them to use instead of the AXt fonts. Until now the AXt fonts are the most used even-though the users of Quark AXt is diminishing. Before the launch of Adobe InDesign ME versions and the development of the OpenType Arabic fonts, most of the Arabic typographer used Quark AXt and were limited to AXt Arabic fonts. Professional graphic designers and students are always asking for new Arabic fonts. The market of Arabic typography is bit poor at the present moment but the need for new design culture and new Arabic typefaces is expanding more and more and the awareness of the importance of Arabic typefaces will surely enrich the Arabic typography market in the coming years. Why was there a need to develop these fonts, and how did the project go beyond the technical side of that goal? One of the goals of the project was to come up with new Arabic fonts. You were one of the designers who participated in the Typographic Matchmaking Project. But after I finished my lecture and gave them the basic info about the Arabic letters and the concept behind the construction of the Kufi style, the participant excelled with their patterns and by the end of the workshop we had very interesting kufi square patterns.Дў. During my workshop I was bit worried that the participants (since they were all non-Arab) will not be able to create beautiful square kufi patterns because they do no know the Arabic script. Any non-Arab individual willing to learn about the Arabic script will start with the kufi Arabic style. But once a person understands the logic behind the structure he/she can easily start dissecting the pattern into Arabic words and sentences. If compared to the Latin typefaces again, high contrast Arabic typefaces will be compared to classical serif Latin typefaces, while low contrast Arabic typefaces will be compared to Sans serif Latin typefaces.ДЇor a non- Arabic viewer, square Kufi will be seen as geometric pattern and not as written Arabic words. In brief, most of the Arabic calligraphic styles are high contrast unless the Kufi style. There are several contemporary Arabic fonts in the market nowadays based on the kufi style. Even though Kufi is one of the oldest Arabic calligraphic styles, the geometric construction of its letterforms and the low-contrast (or mono-linear) pen stoke makes it ideal for creating modern Arabic typefaces. In the 21st century and Kufi script is making a big come back. Finally the square Kufi is a geometric pattern style where the positive and negative spaces have the same width/proportions and the Kufi letters are drawn in simplified basic structures. Floral Kufi is purely geometric in construction and the endings of the letters grow into floral patterns. The geometric Floral Kufi style is the descended of the Archaic Kufi style. Primarily the Quran was written with the kufi script and later it was written with the Naskh style. One unified coherent Arabic script with 29 letters was developed for the writing of the holy scripts of the Quran in the 7th century AD. With the birth of Islam, the Quran became the reason to reform all the Arabic scripts found in Arabia. Afterwards the diacritic dots and accents were added in order to help pronunciation and the set of Arabic letters rose to 29 (including the Hamza). The old kufi (Archaic Kufi) consisted of 17 Arabic lettersforms without diacritic dots or accents. The Archaic Kufi originates from вЂњKufaвЂќ in Iraq during the 7th Century hence the Kufi Calligraphic style name. There are several Arabic Kufi styles but the most common ones are: 1. For young Arabic typographers and non-Arab typographers, the Kufi will be the first choice to start understanding the Arabic script. Since the Kufi style is based on geometric constructions and not on the flow of the pen stroke, this enables it to be easily drawn and to make beautiful patterns out of it. The Kufi Arabic Style is one of the oldest Arabic calligraphic styles and at the same time the easiest to learn and draw. What does Kufi script mean to you? What place do you think it has for the Arab world, Arab youth, the Arab diasporas вЂ¦ and the non-Arab world in the 21st century? You recently taught a workshop on Kufic design.

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