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About Modern Kufi Branding

Modern Kufi Branding is the studio language of the contemporary Gulf and Levant: square, modular Kufic Arabic treated as architecture, set against a strict monochrome white-on-near-black ground. Letterforms are built from squares, baselines align across Arabic and Latin, and restraint is the whole point.

Pioneered through type houses like 29LT and typefaces like Reem Kufi, this system pairs geometric Arabic display with clean Latin in rigorous bilingual grids. Color is withheld to a single muted gold or red, so the writing itself carries the identity.

Learn more about the Modern Kufi Branding style

Origin
Middle East — Dubai, Doha, Beirut, Cairo studios
Era
2010–now (contemporary geometric Kufic revival)
Key figures
Nadine Chahine · Pascal Zoghbi · Khajag Apelian · Khaled Hosny
Movements
geometric Kufic revival · contemporary Arabic typography · bilingual brand systems

Modern Kufi Branding design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

Space GroteskHeadings
IBM Plex Sans ArabicBody
IBM Plex MonoMono
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