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Alfarooq

by Sammantype
Individual Styles from $20.00 USD
Complete family of 2 fonts: $35.00 USD
The Alfarooq Font Family was designed by Eyad Al-Samman and published by Sammantype. Alfarooq contains 2 styles and family package options.

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Alfarooq Complete Family

2 fonts

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Per Style:

$17.50 USD

Pack of 2 styles:

$35.00 USD

About the family


Alfarooq is the most widely known epithet for the Islamic figure Umar ibn al-Khattab (c. 586 - 644) who was a leading companion and an adviser to the Islamic prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) who later became the second Muslim Caliph after Muhammad’s death (pbuh) in 632. Muslims widely know Umar ibn Al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) as Alfarooq (i.e., he who knows and distinguishes between truth and falsehood).

Alfarooq is a unique, wide, and headline Arabic display typeface. The main trait of this typeface is the novel design of its letters' tails and its dots which renders it as one of the modern stylish typefaces used for headlines and titles. This can be noticed in different letters such as Ain, Ghain, Jeem, Khah, Seen, Sheen, and others. In addition, Alfarooq font has an Arabic character set which supports Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, and Urdu letters and numerals with a limited range of specific Arabic ligatures. This typeface comes in two ultra-bold styles (i.e., Alfarooq and Alfarooq-Pro) and more than 430 distinctive glyphs with a single weight for each style.

Alfarooq typeface effectively offers diverse typographic and digital usages including mainly the very large and wide poster-size works. Due to its strong baseline-stroke, Alfarooq typeface is appropriate for heading and titling works in Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, and Urdu newspapers, magazines, and other printed materials. It is also elegantly suitable for signs, book covers, advertisement light boards, street and city names, products- and services names, and titles of flyers, pamphlets, and posters. The wide style of Alfarooq font’s characters gives it more distinction when it is used in greeting cards, covers, exhibitions' signboards, external or internal walls of malls, and also the exits and entrances of airports and halls.

Designers: Eyad Al-Samman

Publisher: Sammantype

Foundry: Sammantype

Original Foundry: Sammantype

Design Owner: Sammantype

MyFonts debut: Nov 7, 2013

Alfarooq

About Sammantype

Sammantype is a private foundry dedicated for designing typefaces and fonts in different character sets for many clients who have different cultures. The foundry was founded in 2011 by Eyad Al-Samman. He is a Yemeni author, lecturer, typographer, and freelance graphic designer. He was born in Sana'a, the capital city of Yemen, and still lives there. Eyad has a bachelor degree in electrical and computer engineering and a master's degree in business administration. The first font commercialized by Sammantype and shown in "Myfonts" was Loyolliams which was designed in the late of 2005. Fonts designed in Sammantype are mostly used in typesetting and publishing of different texts including Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Kurdish, Latin, Cyrillic, and other texts. Eyad Al-Samman as the main typographer of Sammantype and he composed pangrams and one of them is (waxy gents chalked over my fab jazzy quip) which contains 34 letters.

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