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Bahman Eslami

Type designer and kinetic graphic designer born in Tehran, Iran (1985). He holds a BA in graphic design with emphasis on typography from the University of Tehran. Since 2005 he has been working with advertising agencies and specializes in graphical animation. Winner at the Letter 2 competition with Harir (2010, Arabic typeface). This typeface was eventually published in 2013 by Typotheque. Peter Bilak blended Harir in with the Latin typeface Lava: Harir is a modern Arabic text typeface featuring three optical sizes, the first typeface of its kind. Harir is based on the Naskh calligraphy style, but is designed to work well with or without diacritics. Its letter proportions and stroke contrasts have been adjusted to create consistent word shapes, and dots have been carefully positioned to help balance the negative space between the letters. After Bahman Eslami completed Harir, Peter Bilak developed a special version of Lava to serve as Harir's Latin character set, perfectly matching its weight, rhythm and contrast. Designers of non-Latin typefaces are often forced to adapt Latin design principles when they want their fonts to work well in multilingual settings. This can result in distorted lettershapes that deviate from the script's tradition and heritage, impairing readability. Harir and Lava provide a unique combination that enables professional-quality multilingual (Arabic, Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) typesetting with no compromises.

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