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An Arabic logotype drawn from the Latin’s own strokes.

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Logo design for Solitaire.

Solitaire, an upscale women’s boutique, needed one wordmark that worked in English and Arabic together. No Arabic font matched the Latin, so I built the Arabic out of four Latin letters. The project Solitaire serves an English- and Arabic-speaking clientele, and the identity had to carry both languages in a single lockup: storefront, labels, packaging, bags. Not two logos for two markets. One...

Jaber Maycid

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I'm a foreign language typesetter and multilingual desktop publisher. Since 2005 I've set type in over 130 languages, including right-to-left and Canadian Indigenous scripts — and I now build automation for the formatting work around translation.

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