Dala Floda Arabic Family

From shipping crates to Arabic script — a stencil typeface crosses writing systems

Dala Floda Arabic extends Paul Barnes's stencil typeface — rooted in Renaissance letterforms and influenced by worn gravestone inscriptions and shipping-crate lettering — into the Arabic script. The Latin family, first released in 2010, was used in an earlier form for the Commercial Type logotype; an Arabic translation of that logotype in 2017 planted the idea for this expansion. Bahman Eslami drew the Arabic with assistance from Maryam Golpayegani, carrying the original graphic simplification and elegance into a new script.

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