This page assembles materials that may be of relevance and interest to designers engaging with multi-script design projects. It features material developed for my teaching, and other items specifically made for publication here. Furthermore, it provides a text archive of articles that have been published elsewhere, which I try to make accessible here whenever I can.
Arabic type design
Interview by students of the University of Tehran
In March 2014 I was contacted by two students of the University of Tehran, Maryam Khaleghi Yazdi and Ramin Pahlavan Hoseini. They were working...
Literature list
I’ve put this list together for my various students. It’s an introductory collection of a range of different materials on various subjects. It’s loosely...
Arabic typefaces worth studying
Gerry Leonidas asked me to put together a list of Arabic typefaces worth studying: examples which I found of particular relevance for students who...
Academic writing
My PhD has not been published yet, although you can find an article based on my research in Typography Papers 9, published by Hyphen...
Arabic type design in one paragraph
In April 2013 I was asked to write one (!) paragraph about Arabic type design for the Smashing Book #4. Although impossible, I tried...
‘Harmonised type design’ revisited
This article was first published in Digital Fonts and Reading, 150–172, edited by Mary C. Dyson and Ching Y. Suen, Series on Language Processing,...
Non-Latin Type Design at Linotype
This was text originally presented by Dr Fiona Ross as a talk at the First annual Friends of St Bride conference, 24 & 25 September 2002....
The design of Skolar Sans Arabic
This text was first published on 15 November 2016 in a slightly modified version on Rosetta’s website at the occasion of the launch of...
Bustani typeface review
First published on Typographica on May 9, 2016. In Arabic type design, novelty rules. This is understandable given that for too long, little...
Interview by students of the University of Tehran
In March 2014 I was contacted by two students of the University of Tehran, Maryam Khaleghi Yazdi and Ramin Pahlavan Hoseini. They were working...
Literature list
I’ve put this list together for my various students. It’s an introductory collection of a range of different materials on various subjects. It’s loosely...
Arabic typefaces worth studying
Gerry Leonidas asked me to put together a list of Arabic typefaces worth studying: examples which I found of particular relevance for students who...
Academic writing
My PhD has not been published yet, although you can find an article based on my research in Typography Papers 9, published by Hyphen...
Arabic type design in one paragraph
In April 2013 I was asked to write one (!) paragraph about Arabic type design for the Smashing Book #4. Although impossible, I tried...
Note on the new edition of Aisha
‘Note on the new edition of Aisha’, first published on the blog of Rosetta in April 2014. Innovation in type design can take...
Text archive
‘Harmonised type design’ revisited
This article was first published in Digital Fonts and Reading, 150–172, edited by Mary C. Dyson and Ching Y. Suen, Series on Language Processing,...
Non-Latin Type Design at Linotype
This was text originally presented by Dr Fiona Ross as a talk at the First annual Friends of St Bride conference, 24 & 25 September 2002....
The design of Skolar Sans Arabic
This text was first published on 15 November 2016 in a slightly modified version on Rosetta’s website at the occasion of the launch of...
Bustani typeface review
First published on Typographica on May 9, 2016. In Arabic type design, novelty rules. This is understandable given that for too long, little...
Note on the new edition of Aisha
‘Note on the new edition of Aisha’, first published on the blog of Rosetta in April 2014. Innovation in type design can take...
‘Internationally Austrian’
‘Internationally Austrian’, published in TYPO 41, 84–85, 2010 My fascination with typography and typeface design had its beginnings during my studies at the...
‘Nassim’
‘Nassim’, published in Philizot, Vivien (ed.), “Langage et typographie”, Livraisons 13, 122–125, (2010). Nassim is a contemporary text typeface for Arabic and Latin...
Arabic translation of Complex Dutch Arab Complex
My review of Edo Smitshuijzen’s Arabic Font Specimen Book was first published in English and Czech language in TYPO, No. 36, 2009. Nour Maalla...
Complex Dutch Arab Complex – Arabic Font Specimen Book review
First published in English and Czech language in TYPO, No. 36, 2009 Arabic Font Specimen Book review Edo Smitshuijzen is known for his...
‘Reading 2006’
‘Reading 2006’, published in TYPO 24, 22–31, 2007. I started to work on Nassim with two straightforward and practical aspirations: firstly, I wanted...