Nasri Khattar: a modernist typotect

Lebanese architect-typographer Nasri Khattar was motivated by the postcolonial project of modernity. As part of the 1930s language and script reform project in Cairo, he focused on the technological and aesthetic reform of Arabic script. With a reduced set of 30 Unified Arabic letters, he strove to...

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1. Verfasser: Khoury Nammour, Yara 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Arabic
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Khatt Books [2014]
Schriftenreihe:Arabic design library 2
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Zusammenfassung:Lebanese architect-typographer Nasri Khattar was motivated by the postcolonial project of modernity. As part of the 1930s language and script reform project in Cairo, he focused on the technological and aesthetic reform of Arabic script. With a reduced set of 30 Unified Arabic letters, he strove to democratise knowledge, making reading Arabic easier to learn, and the production and typesetting of Arabic texts more efficient. This monograph presents his life's work, placing it within the context of the Arabic alphabet's history and typographic evolution
Beschreibung:Text englisch und arabisch
Beschreibung:176 Seiten Ill. 25 cm
ISBN:9789490939069

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