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ISMET CHANBOUR AND THE GOLDEN HEAVY STYLES

At the beginning of the 80s, Linotype added another golden achievement it's been always doing in the field of high quality Arabic typography, "Al Harf Al Jadid" and "Mariam" were produced by Linotype and designed by Ismet Chanbour who is in deed the father of modern ultra heavy styles of Arabic fonts. Al Harf Al Jadid is still the major popular headline font widely used in most Arabic newspapers and magazines. Mariam is also popular font and had some success in Egypt in the 80-90s.

The dominating heading style

The king of Arabic headlines, Al Harf Al Jadid is undoubtedly the best heading style in Arabic fonts at all, this typeface is still in front of the most successful fonts in Arabic print production.

Despite it's very attractive, Mariam is not very common in Arab world, the most successful time of this font was in "Almoustaqbal" magazine which was very famous and widely distributed in the 80s, as well, Mariam was somehow widely used in Egypt at the end of 80s and in the beginning of the 90s.

Al Harf Al Jadid & Mariam are available for download at:

www.linotype.com