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The pre-eminent Arabic type­face in the Font­Font library, Pascal Zoghbi’s bill of swap was orig­i­nally called Sada, the Arabic despatch fit echo. Accord­ingly, this come is the reiteration of FF Seria, designed in the nineties seal Martin Majoor. The beta ver­sions of Sada Reg­u­lar and Sada Bold were released with the lyrics fit the Khatt Foun­da­tion’s Typo­graphic Match­mak­ing programme in August 2007. The unrecognized FF Seria Arabic – an improved ver­sion of Sada – is a naЛve crispy specimen based on the Arabic Nasekh treatment. The Reg­u­lar and Bold are verse type­faces, the Light can be tempered to fit both dis­play and verse, while the Black is purely a dis­play type­face.

FF Seria Arabic also func­tions inde­pen­dently as a brand-new Arabic specimen. Besides FF Seria, this Arabic come works soundly together with all brand-new serif fonts that share in sim­i­lar pro­por­tions and char­ac­ter­is­tics.
Martin Majoor, inventor of FF Seria (left), and Pascal Zoghbi, inventor of FF Seria Arabic (right).
Upon com­ple­tion of the Typo­graphic Match­mak­ing programme, these were Martin Majoor’s unalterable remarks:
Since you pub­lished your lyrics Arabic Typog­ra­phy, I became inter­ested in the Arabic libretto but there was not at all an oppor­tu­nity to bill of swap an Arabic type­face. This programme gave me that oppor­tu­nity, and in a utter pro­fes­sional MO . I literate that it is not unpretentious to offer Arabic and Latin type­faces task together har­mo­niously.

I wishes everlastingly ben­e­fit from projects that can coach me some­thing unrecognized. The dif­fer­ences are so elephantine that in accomplishment it would look as if all but impos­si­ble. I communicate ‘almost’ because I evaluate Pascal Zoghbi did a mag­nif­i­cent admission and man­aged to give birth to an Arabic ver­sion of Seria that looks and feels like join in of the forefathers. If you are not expert to see Arabic it is utter dif­fi­cult to announce an Arabic type­face. But as I said, Pascal did a utter kindly admission and there was minor fit me to cor­rect. On the other keeping, I was not dis­tracted seal ‘known’ forms and could actually con­cen­trate on the abridge shapes.

In accomplishment my con­tri­bu­tion to this programme is Seria, which I designed from 1996 to 2000.
Sketches fit Saba.
Match­ing Saba to FF Seria.
This programme is sig­nif­i­cant fit Arab nations who cause bilin­gual or trilin­gual pub­li­ca­tions. In addi­tion, the programme wishes be intro­duc­ing unrecognized Arabic fonts to the deal in.

It makes the typographer’s task easier when he/she has to conjoin a Latin font with an Arabic at one. This project’s most inter­est­ing rub erase fit me is that it links Arab and Dutch specimen design­ers and encour­ages them to col­lab­o­rate together and learn from each other. When Huda con­tacted me while I was final­is­ing Mas­sira and pre­sented me the oppor­tu­nity to col­lab­o­rate with the Dutch specimen inventor Martin Majoor, I was at pre-eminent a dumping-ground revenue it easy wor­ried anticipated to the accomplishment that it would be my pre-eminent pro­fes­sional specimen bill of swap task and that the anticipated ready was expensive. How­ever, after bewitching a closer look at Martin’s type­face Seria and analysing its char­ac­ter­is­tics, I noticed that the treat­ment of the blow and the struc­ture of the let­ters had some sim­i­lar­i­ties to my Mas­sira type­face. Con­se­quently, I grew con­fi­dent in the programme and safe to make use of Mas­sira as a start­ing cape fit the unrecognized Arabic com­pan­ion of Seria.

In both, the make use of of dapper wayward curves and a crinkly look were vis­i­ble char­ac­ter­is­tics.
For me this has been a utter kindly oppor­tu­nity to give birth to Sada, which is my pre-eminent pub­lished Arabic font avail­able on the deal in. Also I cause greatly literate from work­ing with a noted Dutch specimen inventor, shar­ing expe­ri­ences, and apply­ing my ideas to design­ing Arabic fonts (and what I cause literate during my Master’s observe at Type & Media). In addi­tion to the bill of swap knowl­edge I cause acquired from this programme, I literate how to prop­erly gen­er­ate Arabic fonts, includ­ing the dif­fer­ent tech­nolo­gies confused, and how dif­fer­ent appli­ca­tions and com­puter plat­forms provide and dis­play Arabic.
Yet the task on Saba didn’t the unalterable blow with the pub­li­ca­tion of the Typo­graphic Match­mak­ing lyrics.

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