Maqroo, an Arabic word for “readable,” is also the name of the first-of-its-kind Arabic font for readers with dyslexia. “Arabic is a complicated writing system,” says Abdo Mohamed ...

Typeface design has a western-normativity problem: for years, most Arabic typefaces have been designed by Latin-language typographers. But Arabic is built differently than Latin—its letters can ...

However, Wild added that globalization, which has played a role in the increase of non-Arabic speaking Muslims throughout the world, makes these translations necessary. According to Wild ...