Wael Morcos

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Wael Morcos After receiving his BA in Graphic Design from the Notre Dame University (Lebanon), Wael Morcos worked for the news website NowLebanon. A year later he joined the branding and design department of Saatchi Beirut where he spent three years developing identities, bilingual typographic solutions and working in print and exhibition design. His typefaces include Kufam (2013): Kufam is a bilingual typeface originally commissioned by Khatt Foundation part of the Typographic Matchmaking project. The typeface is the result of the collaboration between Dutch type designer Artur Schmal and myself. The Arabic is inspired by early Kufi inscriptions (7th century) and the Latin is inspired by Dutch urban lettering of the 1920's. The font supports the Arabic and Persian scripts. In 2014 Kufam was published on the now defunct type label OurType, where the font development team expanded the characterset from Standard to Pro and remastered the fonts. Kufam was available on OurType until 2017. From 2018 Kufam was reworked to meet Google Fonts Latin Expert and Arabic character sets and in 2020 Kufam was made available on Google Fonts (with assistance from Artur Schmal). Github link. Azer (codesigned with Pascal Zoghbi and Ian Party) won an award at TDC 2014. IBM Plex Sans Arabic (2019, by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Wael Morcos and Khajak Apelian) is a free typeface family at Google Fonts. Graphic Arabic (Wael Morcos and Khajag Apelian) won an award at Granshan 2017.	EXTERNAL LINKS Wael Morcos MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Typefaces and type design for Arabic ⦿ Type design in Lebanon ⦿