Nadine Chahine |
1978
Chahine is a prize-winning Lebanese type designer for creating the Arabic version of fonts like ‘Helvetica’, ‘Frutiger’, and ‘Palatino’. Before being known for her typeface designs, she studied graphic design at the American University of Beirut and completed her master’s degree in typeface design at the University of Reading. Her studies there focused on the relationship between Arabic and Latin scripts as well as the possibilities of combining the two. She taught Arabic type design at the American University in Dubai and the Lebanese American Universityin Beirut. Since 2005, she has lived in Germany and joined the Linotype as a specialist for Arabic related projects. In 2007, she started a Ph.D. program at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where she researched the legibility of Arabic scripts. In 2008, she received a TDC award for creating Arabic versions of these popular fonts.
Typefaces • Neue Helvetica Arabic (2015) • Avenir Arabic (2019) • Frutiger Arabic (2007) • DIN Next Arabic (2011) • Neue Frutiger Arabic (2018) • Zapfino Arabic (2014) • Univers Next Arabic (1997) • Palatino Arabic (2007) • Janna Arabic (2008) • SST Arabic (2017) • ITC Handel Gothic Arabic (2015) • Berytus Arabic (2007) • Hamra Str. Arabic (2007) • Koufiya Arabic (2008) • Badiya Arabic (2008) • Amariya Arabic (2017) • Palatino Sans Arabic (2006)
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