About Tahrir Square 2011
The Tahrir Square 2011 system captures the raw urgency of Egypt's revolutionary street graphics — photocopier-grain stencils, crimson-on-black protest banners, and bold Arabic typography sprayed onto downtown Cairo's walls. It is design as direct civic action: no polish, no decoration, only signal.
- Origin
- Cairo, Egypt — Tahrir Square, Mohamed Mahmoud Street, Talaat Harb
- Era
- 25 January – 11 February 2011; visual style persisted through 2013
- Key figures
- Ganzeer (Mohamed Fahmy) · Keizer · Wael Ghonim · Khaled Said
- Movements
- Arab Spring · Egyptian Revolution of 2011 · Cairo street-art renaissance
Tahrir Square 2011 design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
Reem KufiHeadings
Source Sans 3Body
JetBrains MonoMono
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