Our Cairo correspondent explores the textured history of calligraphy as a victim of ‘creative destruction’ and why its ...

From breathtaking Arabic scripts to intricate Western letters, this first-of-its-kind showcase in Durban celebrates the ...

Shared Echoes, a solo show by Kolkata-based artist Amitabh Sengupta, is currently underway at Gallery Time and Space in Bengaluru ...

Learning eastern asian language typefaces with GAN. zi2zi(字到字, meaning from character to character) is an application and extension of the recent popular pix2pix model to Chinese characters. Details ...

Though calligraphy is often taught systematically, Wang said calligraphers imbue their work with personal style through composition, use of fonts and thickness of brush strokes. Wang added that ...

The artist behind the Arabic calligraphy fonts representing the wise words of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is the Emirati artist Mattar bin Lahej, known as an innovative thinker ...

particularly drawn to the variety of fonts on shop signs and light box advertisements lining the streets. Back in Italy in 1999, he began systematically learning calligraphy with calligrapher Wang ...

In a world where digital fonts dominate, the revival of interest in calligraphy among youngsters signals a deeper appreciation for the tactile, personal, and artistic aspects of the written word. The ...

So let's jump in – here, in no particular order, typographers, designers and other industry experts highlight the typography trends to watch in 2025. To see how things have developed since this time ...

Paradoxically, as calligraphy rose in prestige ... Educated in public schools, they began with pencils, modeling their characters after printed fonts in textbooks, rather than canonical models from ...

Some on X argued that Musk’s hat displayed Fraktur, a gothic font once used by the Nazis in Germany. But the reality is even more complicated that that. According to type and calligraphy experts ...