29LT BUKRA: A Versatile Multilingual Type System

29LT Bukra is a contemporary geometric typeface drawn with extreme refinement and sleek monolinear structure that unveils a futuristic and clean sensation. Its modern simplistic arrangement gives the typeface (in all of its weight variations) suitability for corporate and strong headlines and slogans besides branding applications. Corporate identities benefit from the fonts’ clean and polished outlines; while strong headlines and slogans profits from the fonts’ crisp structure. The light weights of the type family give the notion of elegance and refinement, while the heavy weights imply strength and seriousness. It is mainly a display typeface while the lighter styles can be used for short body text.

It’s a type system that consists of 94 styles, 47 Standard styles, and 47 Slanted styles ranging from Hairline to Black in Condensed, Semi Condensed, Normal, Semi Wide and Wide. The condensed styles are narrow and tall while the wide styles are round and heavy. It’s a type family with endless visuals representations allowing it to be applied in an infinite number of graphical applications.

The Arabic Slanted is based on the Eastern Kufic style complementing the Arabic Normal which is based on the Modern Geometric Kufic style.

It is a type family created with maximum legibility and ease of usability mindset. The Arabic letterforms were designed based on the Kufic structure with large open proportions and short ascenders and descenders that were cut to a minimum length. Whereas the Latin character set was designed based on the Sans Serif structures with a large main body height and minimalistic and original design aspects that lends a font a unique feel and a futuristic structure. After all, Bukra means ‘Tomorrow’.

A number of elements bring both Arabic and Latin scripts together: the design approach, open counters, proportions, terminals and finials, weight and contrast. Both scripts were created in synergy and were inspired by each other simultaneously.