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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"

22/4/2010

Added an interview with Hasan Abu Afash

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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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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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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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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Parachute interview Hasan Abu Afash ...

Arabic is an extraordinary script not much understood by the majority of us in the western world. Strange as may sound, the world’s second most widespread writing system relied till about recently on an unsatisfactory small number of quality fonts, compared to the abundance of Latin typefaces in existence today. But as the markets tend to merge, this process is slowly reversed. Definitely there are still not many designers working exclusively on Arab alphabets but the progress is tremendous ....

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