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Faux Indic And Faux Arabic Fonts
These Latin alphabet typefaces mimic the look and feel of Indic and Arabic scripts. For fonts with an Arabic character set see Arabic Fonts.
These Latin alphabet typefaces mimic the look and feel of Indic and Arabic scripts. For fonts with an Arabic character set see Arabic Fonts.
Linotype Sansara, from Swiss designer Grégoire Poget, is part of the TakeType Library, chosen from the entries of the Linotype-sponsored International Digital Type Design Contest 1999 for inclusion on the TakeType 3 CD. This fun font is a type experiment behind whose oriental facade hide Arabic letters, recognizable only at second glance. This font displays generous, pointed ascenders and... Read More
Peter Huschka developed the Sinah type family in 1994. The family consists out of two sub-sections: Sinah and Linotype Sinah Sans. The Sinah typeface has three weights: Regular Bold, and Black. Linotype Sinah Sans also has three weights: Regular, Bold, and Black; but each weight has four versions - Regular, Italic, Condensed, and Condensed Italic. In total, there are 15 Sinah fonts.The basic... Read More
ITC Simran was created by the London designer Satwinder Sehmi in 1998. The Indian influence is recognizable at first glance and lends the font an exotic feel¿ at least to the western eye. Sehmi borrowed forms and feelings from northern Indian writing systems for this typeface.Both the upper and lowercase letters make use of the same lowercase forms, but the upperacse letters have the addition... Read More
The “FF Levant” package is a collection of two typefaces: FF Bagel and FF Falafel. The designer, Per Jørgensen, said: “FF Falafel was the first FF Levant typeface to be designed. The idea came from watching Arabic lettering and seeing shapes that resembled Latin letters: Would it be possible to create an entire Latin alphabet by extracting shapes from Arabic? The design was done between... Read More
Linotype Pide Nashi is part of the Take Type Library, chosen from the entries of the Linotype-sponsored International Digital Type Design Contests of 1994 and 1997. German artist Verena Gerlach created a typeface which looks almost like Arabic at the first glance, only with the second do the familiar forms become clear. Rounded lower case letters, generous, sweeping capitals and... Read More
Bitstream 2003
Linotype 1999
Linotype 2002
Die Gestalten 2003
Bitstream 2004
ITC 1998
FontFont 2002
Linotype 1997
