Even though it can be considered as an extension of the character set of both the regular and the condensed weights, it is a separate set of fonts. FF DIN Arabic was commissioned in 2014 by FontFont to further expand the range of Albert-Jan Pool’s immensely popular FF DIN family that already supports the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets. Jürgen Siebert reported about the type family and its mini-documentary for The FontFeed.Īnd now FontFont introduces FF DIN Arabic, the fourth Arabic FontFont family, also designed by Yanone. It also was the first family of its kind to offer true Arabic italics instead of oblique versions. Instead of adding an Arabic counterpart to a Latin typeface, both script versions were simultaneously designed by one single person, German type designer Yanone, in Serif and Sans styles. When it arrived on the market one year after FF Seria Arabic, the bi-script type family FF Amman™ was one of the largest Arabic–Latin typeface families designed to date. Pascal wrote a guest post on The FontFeed about its development. It was added to the Serif version in 2009. The FontFont Type Board was so impressed by the quality of Majoor and Zoghbi’s collaboration that they chose this design to be the first Arabic typeface released under the FontFont banner. Lebanese type designer Pascal Zoghbi designed Sada, a metaphorical echo of Martin Majoor’s FF Seria® typeface. FontFont’s first foray in Arabic grew out of the Typographic Matchmaking project, organised by the Khatt Foundation.
FF DIN® is the second FontFont family to receive an Arabic companion, making FF DIN Arabic the fourth Arabic type family in the FontFont library.
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