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Weissenhof Arabic Variable

Weissenhof Arabic Variable

by Indian Type Foundry
Individual Styles from $100.00
Weissenhof Arabic Variable Font Family was designed by Bahman Eslami, Michelle Parmar and published by Indian Type Foundry. Weissenhof Arabic Variable contains 1 styles.

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About Weissenhof Arabic Variable Font Family


Weissenhof Arabic is a translation of a modernist design ethos to an Arabic-script typeface for 21st-century communication and Corporate Design tool. ITF also has a Latin-script typeface called Weissenhof Grotesk. This multi-script superfamily was inspired by an ideal rather than a specific typographic genre. Its name pays tribute to the architecture of the Weissenhofsiedlung, or Weissenhof Estate. That ensemble, built in 1927, was the most significant architectural achievement of Weimar Republic Germany. Almost every modern architect of the period was involved, including Peter Behrens, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe. Refreshingly, Weissenhof Arabic is not a pastiche of Bauhaus-inspired letterforms; its designers do not rely on that kind of stylistic shorthand. Weissenhof Arabic is available in two formats: install it as a single Variable Font or use the family’s four static OpenType font files. Those range in weight from Light through Bold. While the static-format fonts offer a good intermediary-step selection, users who install the Variable Font have vastly greater control over their text’s stroke width. The Weissenhof Arabic Variable Font’s weight axis allows users to differentiate between almost 1,000 possible font weights. That enables you to fine-tune your text’s exact appearance on-screen or in print. The corners of Weissenhof Arabic’s stroke endings are rounded-off, but this is not a “rounded” typeface. Its letterforms take inspiration from standard architectural features, such as curves combined with straight segments. Weissenhof Arabic features monolinear strokes and a good amount of contrast between the stroke thickness of each weight. Letter proportions tend toward equalisation, without Weissenhof Arabic becoming a monospaced design.

Weissenhof Arabic Variable

About Indian Type Foundry

Founded in 2009, the Indian Type Foundry (ITF) designs and distributes fine-quality, multilingual fonts for both the Indian and global market. ITF specialises in creating and developing both custom and retail fonts. ITF has designed and licensed fonts to some of the world’s most iconic brands including Apple, Google, Samsung, Sony, Amazon and Hyundai to name just a few. Its retail library offers fonts for text and display use, in visual styles ranging from traditional to experimental. ITF currently offers over 200 retail font families across 20 writing systems. ITF’s Kohinoor font family is on permanent display at London’s Design Museum as part of the “Designer Maker User” exhibition, which recognises this work as a historic milestone in the field of graphic design.

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