Category: reflective practice

Mansa & Firnas Sans by David Williams (PB)

Mansa and firnas sans compliment each other as two distinct styles. Mansa is a medium contrast serif typeface in the scotch roman genre. It features a text weight, an italic and a high-contrast display style. Firnas sans lends itself to comfortable reading whilst giving the page a lively vigour.

Each typeface supports Latin scripts, covering western and central European languages. Both typefaces also have an Arabic component designed to provide the same combination options found in the Latin scripts.Mansa Arabic is a naskh typeface that shares the contrast model of its Latin counterpart. This typeface features a unique Arabic diwani style to partner the scotch roman italic.

Firnas sans Arabic is a low contrast naskh harmonised with its Latin partner. Both Latin and Arabic variants range in weights from regular to black. Included with Firnas sans is an Arabic Ruq’ah style. This distinctive model has a calligraphically authentic cascading structure and can perform the work of an italic or feature as a display style. Expansive sets of ligatures improve the efficiency of all four Arabic styles.

Mansa & Firnas Sans by David Williams

Mansa and firnas sans compliment each other as two distinct styles. Mansa is a medium contrast serif typeface in the scotch roman genre. It features a text weight, an italic and a high-contrast display style. Firnas sans lends itself to comfortable reading whilst giving the page a lively vigour.

Each typeface supports Latin scripts, covering western and central European languages. Both typefaces also have an Arabic component designed to provide the same combination options found in the Latin scripts.Mansa Arabic is a naskh typeface that shares the contrast model of its Latin counterpart. This typeface features a unique Arabic diwani style to partner the scotch roman italic.

Firnas sans Arabic is a low contrast naskh harmonised with its Latin partner. Both Latin and Arabic variants range in weights from regular to black. Included with Firnas sans is an Arabic Ruq’ah style. This distinctive model has a calligraphically authentic cascading structure and can perform the work of an italic or feature as a display style. Expansive sets of ligatures improve the efficiency of all four Arabic styles.

Pactio

Pactio by Borys Kosmynka

Pactio is a multi-script typeface family, intended for printing long text passages. It was created with small to medium size printing in mind. Complete family consists of 6 weights in three scripts in Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic, and a concept for expansion in Hebrew script. The Latin and Cyrillic scripts also have an Italic counterpart in regular weight. While the predominant goal was to achieve smooth reading experience at small sizes, the outlines are aimed to have a clear flavour at display sizes as well. The inspiration for the project were oldstyle typefaces in Latin script. They were chosen based on provided reading experience of humanistic warmth and easy perception by the reader. Similarly, in other script the selected models were chosen based on the reading experience: Naskh style in Arabic, oldstyle Latin model for Cyrillic, Guillaume Le Bé’s model for Hebrew. Pactio is meant to befriend the reader and facilitate the transmission of the message.