The Arabic script is a rich and diverse writing system that has evolved over a millennium, embodying both artistic and functional aspects. Kristyan Sarkis, a prominent type designer, emphasizes the necessity of reviving this history, highlighting different categories of Arabic script, such as solid and fluid styles. His designs, illustrated by typefaces like Qandus and Mizan, aim to explore the evolution of these scripts and their legibility challenges, particularly as they relate to both cultural heritage and modern application in typography, reflecting a deep connection to Arabic aesthetic traditions.
"Arabic script has many styles, developed over centuries for different purposes: From the Arabic in the Quran, which most native speakers struggle to read for its changing legibility over time, down to the stripped-back, standard Arabic on street signs and forms designed for legibility, it is perhaps one of the most interesting scripts to design."
"Qandus is a type system that maps the development of the solid styles, also known as Kufi styles, from the early Eastern forms to the later Western (Maghribi) forms," he says, while Mizan is a "type system that investigates information hierarchy in writing versus in typography."
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