As a student at Central Saint Martins in London, Rana Abou Rjeily devised the font family Mirsaal, which comprises Arabic and Latin alphabets that work together in typographic harmony. Growing up in ...

Sooner or later Arabic will have to evolve into the Latin script due to progress in information technology and cellular telephony. In fact, many Arabs send their SMS in the Latin text and not in the ...

One of the many works of Persian calligraphy on display at the Freer Sackler Gallery. There are many who see the foreign symbols of the Arabic alphabet as art themselves, in contrast to the bland ...

For all of contemporary typography's achievements within the Roman alphabet, it has remained surprisingly monocultural in its bearings. A new project aims to change that. Peter Bil'ak of leading Dutch ...