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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.

Learn more about the Hurufiyya Letter Art style

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

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

Reem KufiHeadings
Noto Naskh ArabicBody
Aref RuqaaMono
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