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Manchette

Manchette

by Abjad
Individual Styles from $45.00 USD
Complete family of 10 fonts: $400.00 USD
Manchette Font Family was designed by Ali Almasri and published by Abjad. Manchette contains 11 styles and family package options.

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About Manchette Font Family


Manchette is an Arabic headline typeface that was inspired by the hand-written Naskh newspaper headlines during the 60s-70s era in the Arab world. The word "manchette" is a french word, that means headline. It was used mainly by the Egyptian calligraphers and designers.

The typeface presents sharp and contemporary details, while taking into consideration the original Naskh rules to echo the elegancy of the hand-written titles. Featuring many opentype features, such as contextual alternates, ligatures, and a small set of stylistic alternates. The typeface also features a dynamic Kashida that can be controlled through the variable fonts technology in the Variable GX file which contains all the weights as well.

Designers: Ali Almasri

Publisher: Abjad

Foundry: Abjad

Original Foundry: Abjad

Design Owner: Abjad

MyFonts debut: Jan 18, 2021

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About Abjad

Abjad is a multilingual type foundry that focuses on Arabic more than Latin... The foundry publishes high quality Arabic typefaces, and craft them to work for specific platforms, wither it's a digital website, magazine, poster, book, or newspaper. Abjad type foundry also focuses on designing typefaces that work well in multilingual situations, where a matching Arabic and Latin typeface is needed. The foundry also provides custom typefaces that follows a certain brief, which usually complement the visual corporate identity of a company. Abjad was founded in 2014 by Ali Almasri.

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