About Hurufiyya Letter Art
Hurufiyya was a mid-20th-century Pan-Arab art movement that abstracted Arabic calligraphic script into modernist painting. From Iraq to Sudan to Palestine, artists dissolved kufic and naskh letterforms into pure plastic gesture, floating over deep, painterly grounds.
This design system carries that reading to the screen: charcoal and dark indigo fields oiled with canvas grain, over which luminous ochre-gold, crimson-rust, and parchment-gold calligraphic strokes hover as composition rather than legible text.
- Origin
- Middle East / Pan-Arab world (Iraq, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon)
- Era
- 1950–1990 (movement peak mid-20th century)
- Key figures
- Madiha Umar · Shakir Hassan Al Said · Kamal Boullata · Wasma'a Chorbachi
- Movements
- Hurufiyya (al-hurufiyya) · Iraqi modernism · Letterist abstraction
Hurufiyya Letter Art design spec
Colors
Typography
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