Rhombic Dot/ Arabic to the Letter is a meeting point for all Arab countries' visual identities. It investigates Arabic typography practices nowadays and the shift from traditional calligraphy to digital typography. It's also a call to rediscover the remnants of our Arabic culture within today's ever evolving societies. 

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Arab Airlines logos

The following are the logos of the national carriers of Arab countries.
Comoros and Western Sahara don't have national carriers. 
While most of the logos are bilingual some are English (Somalia and Lebanon MEA) or French (Algeria).
In case of the Middle East Airlines, their logotype is often accompanied by "Middle East Airlines" in Arabic, English or French (Air Liban) under it.
Emirates airlines have a logotype as well; the Arabic word Emirates is their main symbol since they adopted a calligraphic decorative version of the word. Whereas the rest of the airlines' logos are combination marks: a pictogram or symbol with the title written in Arabic and English under.
Different Arabic scripts and typefaces are used, hence different styles and feelings for the logos. While Royal Jordanian use the Diwani script, Kuwait  and Sudan Airways use the Farsi or Ta'liq. Royal Air Maroc use a kind of Naskh that I personally have never seen before, probably because I haven't been to Morocco. Libyan Airlines use the Thulth script and the rest use Kufi, Modern Naskh and more contemporary typefaces mainly based on the Kufi script (Iraq, Oman, Syria).






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