Neue Helvetica® Arabic Font Family

Neue Helvetica® Arabic Light (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 135.00

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Nadine Chahine is an award winning Lebanese type designer with a special interest in Arabic typography. She studied Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut and Typeface Design at the University of Reading, UK. During her study at Reading, she focused on the relationship of the Arabic and Latin scripts and the possibilities of creating a harmonious relationship between the two. She taught Arabic type design as a visiting lecturer at the American University in Dubai and then joined [...]

This typeface, designed by Max Miedinger and other project members at the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei, has become one of the most famous and popular typefaces in the world, thanks to the marketing strategy of Stempel and Linotype. It forms an integral part of many printers and operating systems. The original letterforms of Helvetica™ had to be modified for the Linotype system. Over the years, Helvetica™ was expanded to include many different weights, but these were not coordinated with each [...]

Neue Helvetica Arabic is designed by Lebanese designer Nadine Chahine as a companion to the iconic Neue Helvetica typeface. Its designed is a clean hybrid of Kufi and Naskh structures and this enables it to function in both text and headline settings. Its curves are very low on contrast and have been designed to be formal, well-crafted and robust in appearance. This is a no nonsense typeface that lends a commanding and professional tone to many different forms of visual communication. It is ideally suited for headlines as well as short runs of text, especially in the domain of corporate communication. Its open and clear counters makes it suitable for signage as well as low resolution devices. The font includes the basic Latin part of Frutiger and support for Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. It also includes proportional and tabular numerals for the supported languages.