Bahman Eslami

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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. In the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag, Bahman designed the graduation typeface Tajrish (2015) for Latin and Arabic. In 2016, he designed the low-contrast Naskh family Diodrum Arabic (Indian Type Foundry). The Latin letterforms in Diodrum are monolinear and of large x-height. Still in 2016, he published the Naskh style Kohinoor Arabic (Indian Type Foundry). Award winner at 25 TDC in 2022 for Amaala Arabic (published at Interval Type). The Arabic part of this custom family is designed to capture the impression of Latin which is an elegant high contrast typeface with round terminals, curly structure, and round counters. The type system comes in three type families, "Sans", "Open Eye" and "Closed Eye". Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp (on the topic of the symbiosis of Latin and Arabic). Typotheque link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Bahman Eslami [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Typefaces and type design for Arabic ⦿ Type design in Iran ⦿ Corporate typefaces ⦿