Unlike its Latin alphabet counterparts, Maqroo has not yet been tested for efficacy, but until now there hasn’t been an attempt to design Arabic type for readers with dyslexia.

An early pioneer in modern Arabic script design, Akl created a font based on the Phoenician alphabet in the 1950s. “He spoke really passionately about Arabic.

The name came from the idea that this font has a mission to simplify Arabic and make it understandable to non-Arabic speakers. The original name of the typeface was Jameel, which means ...

The government communication office says the Dubai Font integrates Arabic and Latin alphabets and is available for use in 23 languages.

Afterwards, besides designing dual-alphabet fonts, I think it would be an interesting initiative to start examining how the Latin alphabet could come into this equation too. Both fonts are being ...