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Sakkal Design [Mamoun Sakkal] Born in Aleppo, Syria, Mamoun Sakkal is a respected calligrapher and typeface designer. He emigrated to the United States in 1978. He is the founder and principal of Sakkal Design in Bothell, Washington. Providing graphic design solutions to major US corporations, Sakkal Design has focused on Arabic calligraphy, Arabic type design and Arabic typography since the 1990s. His Arabic fonts often cover all related scripts---Arabic, Sindhi, Kurdish, Uighur, Urdu and Persian/Farsi. He designed the beautiful Sakkal Sameh Calligraphic font family, Sakkal Shilia (Linotype: an elaborate type system created to match Univers), Sakkal Maya, Sakkal Seta, Sakkal Kufi, Al-Futtaim, Arabtek, Sakkal Majalla (2005), Hasan Alquds (2004, with Hasan Abu Afash), MS Uighur (for Microsoft), and Baseet. Winner with Paul Nelson and John Hudson at the TDC2 2003 competition for Arabictype. He was also awarded there for the Arabic display font Sakkal Seta Pro. In 2004, his MS Uighur (Sakkal Design&Microsoft) won an award at TDC2 2004. In 2006, he wins First Prize in the Letter Arts Review Annual International Competition: The winning artwork Rich and Poor, No. 8 is a computer-manipulated image of Square Kufi calligraphy, produced by the artist as a limited edition print in 2005. Square Kufi is a style of Arabic calligraphy that developed in the thirteenth century. In 2014, Mamoun Sakkal published the Arabic typeface Bustan (done with Syrian calligrapher Jamal Bustan). Bustan is inspired by Kairawani Kufic and cursive Sunbuli.	EXTERNAL LINKS Sakkal Design [Buy fonts] [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Typefaces and type design for Arabic ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿ Type scene in Washington ⦿ Type design in Iran ⦿ Type design in Syria ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿