An-Nahar ("The Day") is the pioneering Lebanese daily founded in Beirut on 4 August 1933 as a four-page hand-set paper. Its identity was an austere black naskh masthead over dense Linotype Arabic columns, printed on coarse, aged grey-beige newsprint and broken only by thin red and black rule lines and woodcut-style headline ornaments.

This design system distills that early serious-press look: inky right-to-left columns, boxed mastheads, visible newsprint grain, and a single accent — the rule-line red. It is dense, ruled, and editorial, never clean or airy.