In the last Christmas, we showed you a video with her latest typefaces. Typographer, graphic designer, researcher, and writer Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès is the founder of the Khatt Foundation, Center for Arabic Typography, which is dedicated to advancing design research and typography in the Middle East, North Africa, and their diaspora.

They met the Amsterdam-based expert for bilingual typographic research and design —whose project Typographic Matchmaking in the City is featured in Gestalten's Arabesque 2: Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia— to talk about the relationships between Arab and Latin typography, typography and architecture, as well as the visual musicality of calligraphy.

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Published on: October 13, 2011
Cite:
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
"Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès: Winning the Match" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/huda-smitshuijzen-abifar%C3%A8s-winning-match> ISSN 1139-6415
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