This project consisted of constructing the Arabic letter from the Latin alphabet, but it broke all traditions of Arabic type and could never be accepted.
The Latinizing Arabic by Yahya Bouteinene (1952)
Also in this collection
Blockprinted amulets (11th century)
Pseudo Kufic on Gentille De Fabriano’s Madonna (1415)
Book of hours by Gregorio de Gregorii, 1514
Eric Gill’s attempts to draw an Arabic font, 1934
Khattar’s unified arabic (1947)
The Latinizing Arabic by Yahya Bouteinene (1952)
Kashida 3-d typeface: Yara Khoury, Melle Hammer 2011
The ‘Arabian Nights’ font by Jungmyung Lee, 2015
Kanat block type, Lara Captan, 2016
