08.Jun.2009 Arabic block printing in the 10-15th century AD
Did you know this? I only came across this a few days ago and am still stumped. I’m surprised that I missed this, though I have to admit that I never dug deep into the history of early Arabic printing. But this is like an prequel to the history chapters that I’ve read. Very cool! [...]
06.Jun.2009 Arabic fonts for mobile
I read an interesting article on type design for mobile devices. What are the characteristics that one should look for in a font? What works best? As type designers, we’ve been mostly preoccupied with print design because that’s the biggest playing field that we’ve been allowed into. There’s been a lot of interesting work done [...]
04.Jun.2009 Client Vendor relationship: Hilarious but really sad
I came across this via a post on typophile. Just amazing!
03.Jun.2009 A big day for Arabic on the web
Monotype Imaging has announced support for the use of Embedded OpenType (EOT) for non-commercial websites (full press release is here). This covers the whole Linotype, Monotype, and ITC typeface libraries. Why is this so great for Arabic? The Linotype Library has a lot of interesting Arabic typefaces (including mine!) and this new End User License [...]