Ayat al-Kursi

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Some sketches for a personal stamp using Square Kufic. Sadly the guy I was planning to order them from does *not* have a small circular stamp. His small stamps are oval, which I didn’t like these designs into.

Who needs a personal stamp anyway.

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A number of poems by Ghazi Al-Gosaibi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazi_Abdul_Rahman_Al_Gosaibi published in various points in Al-Jazira newspaper.

The lines were written by a calligrapher (scribe? lettering artist?) very interesting style and shaping of letters. Similar a bit to the decisions made in font Sultan Mada .

From twitter thread: https://twitter.com/mansoralassaf/status/1590252197627179009?s=61

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Column inscriptions !!

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Earlier in the exhibition there was an old Quran written with gold powder in the Kufic style.

Red circles are the vowels. Blue circles are the shadda. Green are the hamza. Above the letter they’re a fat’ha, they’re a kasra, and in front of the letter it’s a damma.

One of y’all can make a color font out of that.

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Currently visiting the 1st edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, #SaudiArabia

One of the exhibits is a collection of tombstones from a graveyard in Mecca. Itched on basalt and are in different forms and styles.

Here are some of them. Is it calligraphy if it’s not with a pen?

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Here is Saad al-Thuraya’s (a lettering artist and typographer based in Saudi) coverage of the event in his instagram highlight reel.

https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3ODc0Nzk1NTU3ODQxNzA4?story_media_id=3055302397479990054&igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

This is an event by Arab designers who speak and read Arabic. But the western community is exposed instead to weird simplistic articles of “oh wow you have to follow how the pen rotates to get the proper thickness in Naskh” like it’s some huge revelation or the all end all of the field.

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There are two types of Arabic type designers (and letterers): those who are participating or following the Hadath Hebrayer حدث حبراير event in Egypt, and those who are followed by the western type design community. There is weirdly 0 overlap.

https://instagram.com/hadath.hibrayer?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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