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1/6/2007

Added an interview with John Hudson

1/6/2007

Added an article about A new typeface for Arabic and Latin script "Nassim"

1/6/2007

Added an article about Hilye of the Prophet Muhammad

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An interview with Thomas Milo

Hello and Welcome to Hiba Studio

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Hibastudio.com aims to spread the love of Arabic typography and appreciation of its originality through …

- Getting acquainted with its pioneers and creators,

- Meaningful and critical studies about hand drawn and computer generated Arabic fonts,

- Presenting computerized fonts designed by creative minds

- Educational lessons in Arabic typography.

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Hamid Al Amidi

Hamid Al Amidi was born in 1891 in the city of "Diyar-e-Bakr" south Anatolia, Turkey. It was known in the past as the city "Amid". His real name is "Moses Azmi", the renamed as "Hamid Aytash Alamidi" after his village. His father "Thulfikar Agha" was a butcher, his mother was "Muntaha" and his grandfather was "Adam Alamidi", a calligrapher...

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Talking about type... An interview with John Hudson

J. Hudson is a Canadian type designer specialising in multilingual font development. He has obtained numerous awards for his work, including recognition for Cyrillic (Russian) and Ethiopic type design. He has worked on building Arabic OpenType fonts for lots of customers. We asked him questions about many topics, especially Arabic typography, and he gave us some great answers.

Thanks John, for everything ...

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The Hilye of the Prophet Muhammad ... By: Mohamed Zakariya

How does one describe the indescribable? How does one form an image of that which cannot be portrayed? That is what the hilye does--it gives parameters to the imagination so that one can think about the Prophet with a mental or spiritual image to hang onto, yet not attempt to visualize him or portray him in a painting. But the hilye is not an icon in words.

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Handasi ... By: Saad D. Abulhab

The idea behind Handasi, Arabic word for “engineered”, was to design a font without a single curve that would at the same time resembles traditional curves-rich Nask style. The font strictly uses straight lines. Handasi was designed and implemented completely utilizing FontLab version 4.6 only ...

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Nassim ... A new typeface for Arabic and Latin script... By: Titus Nemeth

he Nassim typeface family has its origin in the MA Typeface Design programme at the University of Reading. The basic design developed during my studies in 2005/06, yet the family still develops in terms of styles and variations ...

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