Power. Politics. Identity.

Typefaces embody the unspoken messages in our words, which is why it’s more important than ever that there is plurality for the voices of the Arabic culture. Award winning typeface designer Nadine Chahine argues there’s a place for both the classical and the modern lettering in the contemporary language. This talk was given at a…

Noto Sans Arabic

My work at Monotype allowed me to take part in Google’s project and its development of the Noto Sans family. I designed this Arabic typeface which is mainly targeted towards reading on screen. Noto Sans is the largest typeface family worldwide and aims to cover every known writing system that is encoded.

Dubai

In 2015, while still at Monotype, I was asked to develop a special Arabic+Latin typeface to carry the name of Dubai and that would ship with Microsoft Office 365. I lead the design team and was the principal Arabic designer on the project. The new typeface family was launched by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed…

SST Arabic

While at Monotype, I designed the Arabic part of the new corporate typeface for Sony, SST Arabic. The typeface is part of a large family comprised of many scripts such as Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Thai, and Japanese. The design is a Kufi-Naskh hybrid that is mean to work in a variety of sizes and applications….

Gebran2005

I was asked to design the headline newspaper for An-Nahar which is the largest and oldest Lebanese daily. The project was part of a larger redesign of the whole newspaper by renowned designer, Mario Garcia. This project dates to when I was the Arabic Specialist at Linotype. The typeface is in the traditional Simplified Naskh…